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• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
THE LONG-RUNNING<br />
saga over whether catering a<br />
community board should end<br />
once and for all is set to come to<br />
a climax today.<br />
Mark Peters<br />
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Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community<br />
Board member<br />
Mark Peters has<br />
put forward a<br />
notice of motion<br />
to “cease catering”<br />
for its meetings from next<br />
month onwards.<br />
Labelled “sausagegate” by<br />
outspoken opponent Central<br />
Riccarton Residents’ Association<br />
secretary Garth Wilson,<br />
the board’s fortnightly catering<br />
budget has been a source of contention<br />
for more than a year.<br />
Last year, Mr Wilson raised<br />
concerns over why the catering<br />
costs and the decision to<br />
keep the budget the same was<br />
discussed at a public excluded<br />
meeting in November.<br />
It is the key reason why Mr<br />
Peters has formally brought<br />
the issue to the public meeting<br />
today.<br />
“It is time we nailed our<br />
colours to the mast and brought<br />
it in an open transparent<br />
discussion.”<br />
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Crusade to stop park being treated like a ‘rubbish bin’<br />
DUMPING GROUND: Riccarton<br />
resident Peter Simmonds is relieved<br />
after hearing the city council will install<br />
two new rubbish bins in Harrington<br />
Park. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
PETER SIMMONDS takes a lot of pride<br />
in Harrington Park.<br />
“But some other people in my community<br />
don’t share that pride and then treat<br />
it like a rubbish bin.”<br />
That is reason why Mr Simmonds<br />
made a fiery presentation to the Halswell-<br />
Hornby-Riccarton Community Board<br />
recently – calling the city council out for<br />
not placing additional rubbish bins in the<br />
park when they “promised” they would.<br />
But a long crusade to get more bins for<br />
the park may have finally paid off.<br />
City council’s manager of community<br />
parks Al Hardy said both rubbish bins<br />
costing $968 each, will be installed as part<br />
of the playground renewal works in Harrington<br />
Park set to begin later this month.<br />
Mr Simmonds said it was a relief the<br />
city council had showed some “common<br />
sense.”<br />
It is the second time the Riccarton<br />
resident has presented to the board on the<br />
issue after he requested in May for an additional<br />
rubbish bin to be installed by the<br />
park’s basketball court.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 3<br />
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Opposition to toxic waste plan mounts<br />
Community<br />
board asked<br />
to intervene<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
“WE REALLY do not want this<br />
to be the Greta effect.”<br />
Those are the words from<br />
the Prebbleton Community<br />
Association Committee chairman<br />
Peter Hunter – one of the<br />
hundreds of residents fighting<br />
against a toxic waste treatment<br />
plant from opening in their<br />
backyard.<br />
Mr Hunter has called on the<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board to “advocate,<br />
intercede and petition” to stop<br />
Waste Management from operating<br />
a treatment and stabilisation<br />
facility in South Hornby.<br />
Mr Hunter made a presentation<br />
to board at its meeting<br />
on Tuesday following a recent<br />
meeting in Prebbleton which<br />
drew in a crowd of more than<br />
500 people over the plans for<br />
305 Marshs Rd.<br />
He told the board he did<br />
not want a situation similar to<br />
17-year-old Swedish environment<br />
activist Greta Thunberg.<br />
Mr Hunter said he did not<br />
want someone standing up in<br />
front of the authorities saying<br />
“you lot stuffed it up for us and<br />
we have to live with it and try to<br />
fix it.”<br />
Last year, Miss Thunberg<br />
gained international recognition<br />
for her campaigning on climate<br />
change.<br />
She sailed a yacht to New York<br />
from Plymouth, England, where<br />
she attended the 2019 UN Climate<br />
Action Summit and told<br />
the heads of state:<br />
“We are in the beginning of<br />
a mass extinction, and all you<br />
can talk about is money and<br />
fairy tales of eternal economic<br />
growth. How dare you,” she<br />
said.<br />
But Mr Hunter said: “We don’t<br />
want that, we can’t afford it. We<br />
need help.”<br />
He is calling on the board to<br />
help “stop” and “review” what<br />
Waste Management is trying to<br />
do.<br />
“All we want to do is protect<br />
the environment, protect our<br />
people, protect our children,<br />
protect our resources and our<br />
grandchildren down the track.”<br />
Residents have been considering<br />
their legal options with the<br />
potential to take the issue to the<br />
High Court for a judicial review<br />
of Environment Canterbury’s<br />
decision to only consult people<br />
within 500m of the facility.<br />
But Mr Hunter said this<br />
means the community will need<br />
to find thousands of dollars.<br />
Greta<br />
Thunberg<br />
Peter<br />
Hunter<br />
Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
thanked Mr Hunter for his<br />
presentation.<br />
“All we can do is lobby and<br />
work closely with you and I<br />
would like to suggest a couple<br />
of members of this community<br />
board actually be formal liaisons<br />
with the Prebbleton group on<br />
this matter because it is going<br />
to affect people as much in our<br />
ward as it is yours,’’ he said.<br />
Hornby residents have raised<br />
concerns over how they will be<br />
impacted by the new hazardous<br />
plant, particularly if the wind<br />
blows southerly.<br />
Board member Helen<br />
Broughton said it could grant<br />
funding to support the resident’s<br />
cause.<br />
Mr Mora told <strong>Western</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong> he and board member<br />
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deteriorating quickly, having difficulty<br />
eating and appeared dull and not<br />
responsive to her owners at times. Steroid<br />
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Other differentials included a glioma or<br />
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with the owners it was decided to push<br />
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Auckland. Brain surgery isn’t a walk in the<br />
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She had an MRI before the surgery and a<br />
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closely monitored for a few days.<br />
She had very specific discharge<br />
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for Sashenka), physiotherapy on her<br />
back muscles and legs and medications<br />
including steroids, pain relief and<br />
antibiotics. Catherine has seen her<br />
recently and she appears to be doing<br />
really well - she even escaped her cage<br />
and was seen running up a tree - her<br />
favourite place to be, a birds eye view of<br />
life.<br />
Day 1 after the surgery.<br />
The tumour may grow back and<br />
Catherine is exploring chemotherapy<br />
options but for now Sashenka has her full,<br />
active life back again which is great news<br />
for everybody. She may pave the way in<br />
the future for other patients with brain<br />
tumours. Thank you to Sashenkas mum<br />
and dad for allowing me to write this<br />
article on her.<br />
Dr Michele McMaster<br />
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Petition presented to<br />
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• By Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
RICCARTON residents<br />
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parking on their street to<br />
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rubbish collection truck.<br />
A petition signed by 27<br />
residents was presented to<br />
the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board<br />
after it approved parking<br />
restrictions on part of Colligan<br />
St in December.<br />
It called for the city<br />
council to reconsider its<br />
plan to put no stopping<br />
lines on part of Colligan<br />
St from Monday to Friday<br />
6am-6pm and instead only<br />
on rubbish days, due to the<br />
difficulty rubbish trucks<br />
have negotiating parked<br />
cars in the cul-de-sac.<br />
The board approved the<br />
parking restrictions at a<br />
meeting in December –<br />
prompting a backlash from<br />
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Quarry decision time extended<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
QUARRY opponents nervously<br />
anticipating a decision on<br />
whether a controversial quarry<br />
will open in Templeton has been<br />
forced to wait a bit longer.<br />
The hearing for Fulton Hogan’s<br />
proposal to open a quarry<br />
between Dawsons, Jones, Maddisons<br />
and Curraghs Rds will<br />
not be made this month.<br />
The hearing<br />
has not<br />
closed due<br />
to a request<br />
from the<br />
independent<br />
hearings<br />
panel chaired<br />
Roger<br />
Cudmore<br />
by Rob van<br />
Voorthuysen<br />
for further<br />
information<br />
from Fulton Hogan over the<br />
quarry.<br />
The hearing reconvened on<br />
<strong>February</strong> 5 so commissioners<br />
could decide if issues addressed<br />
in the company’s right of<br />
reply was sufficient or if the<br />
application would be declined.<br />
The company’s right of reply<br />
to concerns raised throughout<br />
a three-week hearing late last<br />
year was made public earlier this<br />
month.<br />
Leading up to the reconvening<br />
of the hearing, an Environment<br />
PENDING: Further information is required of Fulton Hogan<br />
before the hearings panel can make a final decision on<br />
whether its controversial quarry can go ahead in Templeton.<br />
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Canterbury spokeswoman told<br />
<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> it was possible if<br />
the commissioners were satisfied<br />
with the response the hearing<br />
could close that day.<br />
While it was not normal<br />
practice, the commissioners<br />
allowed written questions from<br />
submitters at the reconvened<br />
hearing to be put to Fulton<br />
Hogan – if the commissioners<br />
agreed they desired the answers<br />
themselves.<br />
The questions written by<br />
submitters passed onto Fulton<br />
Hogan by the commissioners<br />
were:<br />
•What route will trucks<br />
accessing or departing the<br />
proposed quarry take if the<br />
Dawsons Rd railway crossing<br />
is unavailable due to planned<br />
maintenance or unforeseen<br />
events?<br />
•How much land does Fulton<br />
Hogan own in the city council<br />
quarry zone that has been consented<br />
for quarrying but has not<br />
yet been quarried?<br />
•How much other land does<br />
Fulton Hogan own outside of<br />
the city council quarry zone<br />
(a part from the Roydon site)<br />
that has been consented for<br />
quarrying but has not yet been<br />
quarried?<br />
At the reconvened hearing,<br />
Golder Associates (NZ) principal<br />
environmental consultant<br />
Roger Cudmore also presented<br />
new evidence addressing potential<br />
offset from the quarry of air<br />
pollutant PM10.<br />
New written replies to Mr<br />
Cudmore’s evidence including<br />
experts on behalf of the quarry<br />
is now required by the panel.<br />
The panel also had further<br />
questions for Golder Associates<br />
(NZ) associate and senior<br />
environmental scientist Audrey<br />
Wagenarr who was unable to<br />
attend the hearing.<br />
Fulton Hogan and other organisations<br />
required to respond<br />
to the new evidence presented<br />
at the hearing will have until<br />
Friday, <strong>February</strong> 28.<br />
Said Templeton Residents’ Association<br />
secretary Jolene Eagar:<br />
“It is pretty much out of our<br />
control at this stage, but in the<br />
end, she would rather the commissioners<br />
make an informed<br />
decision than feel rushed.’’<br />
If the panel is satisfied with<br />
the response they will close the<br />
hearing and a decision will be<br />
released 15 working days later.<br />
Harrington Park<br />
to get more bins<br />
•From page 1<br />
“I say a promise is a promise<br />
and I will keep coming back to<br />
the board until it is done because<br />
it doesn’t make sense why you<br />
make a promise and not follow<br />
through with it,” he said.<br />
There is currently only one rubbish<br />
bin on the eastern side of the<br />
playground located near the rear<br />
of the park.<br />
“What has happened in the<br />
meantime while these bins haven’t<br />
been put in is it is being used<br />
like a rubbish bin. Rubbish is<br />
being dumped, furniture is being<br />
dumped in there, graffiti – everything<br />
that is going on just starts to<br />
escalate.<br />
“The easiest thing to do is nip it<br />
in the bud, first up with bins.”<br />
As well as one rubbish bin being<br />
placed by the basketball court, he<br />
has suggested one could be put by<br />
the public toilets.<br />
Mr Simmonds said the public<br />
toilets is being treated with a great<br />
deal of disrespect.<br />
“It is being vandalised, blocked,<br />
doors are being smashed, there<br />
has been a phallic image drawn<br />
on the walls.”<br />
Mr Hardy said its planning<br />
team will incorporate the latest<br />
design practices when renewing<br />
park facilities to minimise<br />
vandalism and it monitors its<br />
parks for incidents.<br />
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Grow Ō Tautahi festival to showcase community garden<br />
WORK IS under way on a<br />
collaborative community<br />
garden exhibition for visitors<br />
to explore at Grow Ō Tautahi<br />
Christchurch Garden Festival.<br />
This is a free event, which will<br />
be held in the Botanic Gardens<br />
from March 20 to 22.<br />
The Canterbury Community<br />
Gardens’ Association is<br />
bringing together all of<br />
Canterbury’s 32 community<br />
gardens to create an interactive<br />
exhibition where visitors can<br />
sit on living furniture, enjoy a<br />
lush garden space, play amongst<br />
living sculptures and post<br />
photos of their adventures.<br />
Grow Ō Tautahi festival<br />
director Sandi MacRae said the<br />
community garden will be a<br />
highlight.<br />
“Grow Ō Tautahi is a homegrown<br />
festival that draws on<br />
our region’s love of gardens,<br />
creativity, innovation and design.<br />
We are absolutely focused<br />
on our local community so it’s<br />
really exciting to have all the<br />
region’s community gardens<br />
represented in one very special<br />
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“When I first heard of the<br />
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You’ll be able to come along,<br />
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More police to<br />
respond to break-ins<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
POLICE WILL increase patrols<br />
across south Christchurch after<br />
a spike in the number of vehicles<br />
being broken into.<br />
Detective Senior Sergeant Damon<br />
Wells said vehicle break-ins<br />
have been increasing throughout<br />
this area, particularly in<br />
Halswell but did not say by how<br />
much.<br />
“We don’t have statistics available<br />
at this time but anecdotally<br />
have seen an increase.”<br />
Detective Senior Sergeant<br />
Wells did not say how many police<br />
officers will be patrolling the<br />
areas or how many hours they<br />
will devote a week.<br />
“For operational reasons, we’re<br />
not able to share specific detail<br />
on police resourcing,” he said.<br />
Halswell Residents’ Association<br />
secretary David Hawke said<br />
he is not aware of the recent<br />
spike in vehicle break-ins in the<br />
area but it is good police are responding<br />
to this if it is an issue.<br />
Said Mr Hawke: “I guess from<br />
a general statement, our expectation<br />
is that they [police] respond<br />
to the level of the problem.”<br />
Mr Hawke hopes increased<br />
patrols will also lead to police<br />
reducing the number of speeding<br />
vehicles driving through<br />
Halswell, which the residents’ association<br />
has raised as a concern<br />
in the past.<br />
“I guess the interest we’ve had<br />
SAFER: Police patrols will increase in south Christchurch, particularly<br />
Halswell, to address an increase in vehicle break-ins.<br />
more recently was more police<br />
patrols to enforce speed limits.”<br />
He said police appeared to<br />
be doing a good job of slowing<br />
down drivers since speed was<br />
raised as a concern by the association.<br />
He believes increased<br />
patrols could help reduce speeding<br />
in the area even further.<br />
Said Detective Senior Sergeant<br />
Wells: “Police patrolling in the<br />
area will perform a number<br />
of tasks, including providing<br />
prevention advice and responding<br />
to any offending that takes<br />
place.”<br />
Meanwhile, police would like<br />
to remind residents of measures<br />
they can take to make their vehicle<br />
less appealing to thieves.<br />
Police ask residents to help<br />
deter burglars by not leaving<br />
valuables or documents with<br />
personal information in vehicles,<br />
parking in well-lit areas, locking<br />
vehicles and taking keys with<br />
them.<br />
Boats or vehicles should be<br />
disabled so they can’t be moved<br />
or towed away and locked in<br />
secure garages. People are also<br />
urged to keep in contact with<br />
neighbours.<br />
Tradies are encouraged to<br />
get their tools engraved with<br />
their driver licence number and<br />
secure them inside vehicles with<br />
chains and padlocks.<br />
Catering<br />
saga called<br />
‘ridiculous’<br />
• From page 1<br />
In 20<strong>18</strong> it was revealed the<br />
board was the biggest spender on<br />
food catering – spending more<br />
than $10,000 since 2016/17.<br />
It has cut back it’s<br />
catering, reducing its<br />
budget from $78 to<br />
about $68 a meeting<br />
after it previously sat at<br />
$174.<br />
Mr Peters said catering<br />
has never been<br />
something he has<br />
partaken in and the<br />
board needed to be wise<br />
about how ratepayer<br />
money is spent at a time when<br />
the city council is under financial<br />
pressure.<br />
Mr Wilson said the people of<br />
the Riccarton community are<br />
totally opposed to catering.<br />
He said the whole saga was<br />
“ridiculous” which is why he has<br />
named it “sausagegate.”<br />
Savouries such as sausage rolls<br />
have previously been a common<br />
sight at board meetings.<br />
Mr Wilson has questioned how<br />
elected members – particularly<br />
city councillors on more than<br />
$100,000 – can justify spending<br />
ratepayer money on catering.<br />
“I call it stealing it money from<br />
low-income people that is basically<br />
what it is.”<br />
In December city councillors<br />
received an 11 per cent<br />
pay rise – in spite of<br />
opposition from some<br />
city councillors. Their<br />
annual salary has increased<br />
from $97,280 to<br />
$114,130.<br />
As the role of chairman,<br />
Mike Mora is<br />
paid $46,595 while<br />
board members are paid<br />
$23,297 annually.<br />
Mr Mora, who previously<br />
said catering at meetings was a<br />
“necessity” would not say how he<br />
would vote at the board today.<br />
City councillor Jimmy Chen<br />
said he needed to listen to the<br />
other board members at the meeting<br />
before making a decision.<br />
But he said now that the board<br />
meetings are planned to be<br />
shorter this term, he does not see<br />
the need for the catering.<br />
Said Mr Wilson: “This is<br />
coming to a climax . . . you will<br />
see how sausagegate plays out<br />
today.”<br />
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Another board decision delayed<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
HALSWELL-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board chairman<br />
Mike Mora has told his fellow<br />
board members to “grow some<br />
whatevers and actually make a<br />
decision on the board.”<br />
The outburst was during<br />
a debate at the board’s<br />
public meeting recently<br />
over whether some yellow<br />
lines should be painted on<br />
three residential streets in<br />
Halswell.<br />
City council staff had<br />
recommended no stopping<br />
restrictions were installed on<br />
parts of Bronco Drive, Bibiana St<br />
and Stallion Ave.<br />
But now an overhaul<br />
of the original report on<br />
the parking restrictions is<br />
in motion after concerns<br />
from board members not<br />
enough public consultation<br />
on the proposal was<br />
initially carried out.<br />
But before the decision<br />
was made Mr Mora said:<br />
“We have just got to grow some<br />
whatevers and actually make a<br />
decision on the board.”<br />
But board member Mark Peters<br />
hit back.<br />
He said: “I actually find that a<br />
slight bit offensive, Mr Chair, being<br />
told to grow something and<br />
make a decision.”<br />
Mike Mora <br />
Mark Peters<br />
Mr Mora responded “fair<br />
enough.”<br />
He later said while it was probably<br />
the wrong choice of words,<br />
people do need to realise the<br />
board is there to make decisions.<br />
“I am a straight shooter – I say<br />
what I think”.<br />
The comments were<br />
after Mr Peters raised<br />
concerns the entirety of<br />
Bronco Drive had not been<br />
consulted on the no stopping<br />
restrictions.<br />
City council traffic<br />
engineer Barry Hayes said<br />
generally he goes about<br />
three properties beyond the<br />
extent of the proposal and he<br />
contacted the Halswell Residents’<br />
Association.<br />
But Mr Peters put<br />
forward an amendment<br />
for the decision over the<br />
no stopping restrictions<br />
to be delayed until further<br />
consultation had been held<br />
with all residents of Bronco<br />
Drive and Stallion Ave.<br />
Already, the board had voted<br />
to delay making a decision on<br />
a safety upgrade to the Ilam/<br />
Middleton/Riccarton Rd intersection.<br />
“I don’t want to be obstructive<br />
but I want to ensure we have got<br />
the consultation absolutely correct<br />
and right.<br />
NO CHANGE: The city council has received complaints from<br />
residents of inconsiderate parking taking place on residential<br />
streets including Bronco Drive. It has proposed no stopping<br />
restrictions but further consultation is required.<br />
The fact we had seen the surprise<br />
on Colligan St, I want to make<br />
sure we don’t sneak up on people<br />
through consultation and we get<br />
it right,” Mr Peters said.<br />
Concerns were raised by<br />
residents on Colligan St when<br />
the board made a decision to<br />
cut parking on their street to<br />
make way for the weekly rubbish<br />
collection truck without their<br />
knowledge.<br />
The vote on the amendment<br />
drew a tie with board members<br />
Helen Broughton, Ms Mora, Mr<br />
Peters and city councillor Catherine<br />
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Mr Mora, board member<br />
Gamal Fouda, city councillor<br />
Jimmy Chen voted against while<br />
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further questions with all board<br />
members voting the same except<br />
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the decision being delayed.<br />
Transports operations manager<br />
Steffan Thomas said the new<br />
report will recommend the same<br />
proposal as previously reported<br />
on but will include any new<br />
submissions following additional<br />
consultation.<br />
Previously staff consulted<br />
30 properties in total – an<br />
additional 10 properties will<br />
receive further consultation.<br />
Community<br />
boards to get<br />
public input<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
THE PUBLIC will have a say<br />
on the priorities of community<br />
boards for the first time.<br />
The city council is publicly<br />
consulting on the three-year plans<br />
of community boards which set<br />
out their priorities for local communities.<br />
City council head of support,<br />
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initiative was to get community<br />
feedback in order to inform board<br />
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These plans will guide the<br />
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consultation until early March.<br />
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CHRISTCHURCH Mayor<br />
Lianne Dalziel is throwing her<br />
weight behind a bid to build new<br />
indoor courts at the Ngā Puna<br />
Wai Sports Hub.<br />
The city council agreed on<br />
Thursday to begin consulting<br />
the public about leasing land at<br />
Ngā Puna Wai to Netsal so it can<br />
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facility.<br />
Netsal was established by the<br />
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Centre specifically to develop,<br />
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things we are lacking is a high<br />
quality multi-court indoor facility.<br />
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the new indoor courts facility<br />
at Ngā Puna Wai, which is already<br />
home to top-class facilities<br />
DEVELOPMENT: Mayor<br />
Lianne Dalziel is supportive<br />
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Wai Sports Hub.<br />
for hockey, tennis, rugby league<br />
and athletics.<br />
“Adding facilities for netball,<br />
futsal and other indoor court<br />
sports would be totally in keeping<br />
with the original vision<br />
of Ngā Puna Wai as a hub for<br />
multiple sporting codes.<br />
“Because the land we are proposing<br />
to lease Netsal is reserve<br />
land, we do need to consult the<br />
public and get their feedback.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 13<br />
SPORT<br />
Robertson to make<br />
Blind Jacks debut<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
DEANE ROBERTSON has<br />
turned a $20 note into a national<br />
lawn bowls selection.<br />
The 53-year-old who lives in<br />
Belfast and plays for Burnside,<br />
will make his international<br />
debut for the Blind Jacks against<br />
Australia in May three years after<br />
he rolled up and got close to $20<br />
with his first ever bowl.<br />
He, along with his director<br />
Kevin Smith won the B1 singles<br />
and finished runner-up in the B1<br />
and B2 pairs at the nationals in<br />
Christchurch last month.<br />
“It was quite overwhelming to<br />
know I had made the team,” he<br />
said.<br />
He will likely play singles and<br />
pairs for New Zealand at the<br />
event.<br />
Robertson who lost his sight<br />
because of glaucoma six years<br />
ago, took up the sport three years<br />
ago after attending a Blind Foundation<br />
have a go day at Burnside<br />
Bowling Club.<br />
“I met Kevin and he put a $20<br />
note down for me to aim at and<br />
I got pretty close and it’s all happened<br />
from there.<br />
“Losing my eyesight really<br />
affected me at first,” he said. “I<br />
wouldn’t go anywhere or do anything<br />
then I got with the Blind<br />
Foundation and I realised that we<br />
INTERNATIONAL: Burnside<br />
lawn bowler Deane<br />
Robertson (left), with his<br />
director Kevin Smith.<br />
could do things.<br />
“Initially I did something every<br />
day of the week but I blew out<br />
and got tired so now I just do<br />
things two or three days a week<br />
like walks in Lyttelton,”<br />
Roberston said the people at<br />
the Burnside Bowling Club had<br />
made him feel welcome from day<br />
one.<br />
“Often I’ll pop down and just<br />
listen to the games being played<br />
and the other club members will<br />
tell me what is going on.<br />
Smith, who is based in Wagga<br />
Wagga in Australia, said it was<br />
deserved recognition for his<br />
friend who has persevered in<br />
spite of his lack of sight.<br />
“It’s one of those Kiwi stories<br />
about just getting on with it and<br />
that’s certainly what Deane does.<br />
“He has a great attitude.”<br />
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CHRISTCHURCH Boys’<br />
High School’s rowing team<br />
has set a new world record and<br />
raised more than $22,000 for<br />
Leukaemia and Blood Cancer<br />
New Zealand in the process.<br />
Ed Lopas, a member of the<br />
school’s rowing team, was<br />
diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma<br />
– a form of blood cancer<br />
– last year. It was only fitting that<br />
the 16-year-old had the honour<br />
of finishing the last stint of the<br />
successful world record attempt<br />
last Tuesday. The team of 61 rowers<br />
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longest continual team erg (rowing<br />
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under-19. Their time of 145hr<br />
10min smashed the previous<br />
record of 96hr.<br />
“It was pretty special having<br />
everyone cheer me on to the finish,”<br />
said Lopas.<br />
The team travelled a total<br />
distance of 1937km. On a map,<br />
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school, north to Blenheim, west<br />
to Greymouth, south to Queenstown,<br />
east to Dunedin and up<br />
SH1 back to school.<br />
The school’s rowing manager<br />
Ricardo De Sousa said he’s been<br />
blown away by the team’s commitment<br />
to the record-breaking<br />
achievement.<br />
“The boys have been absolutely<br />
incredible. We thought it would<br />
be a bit of a headache trying to get<br />
FOR A CAUSE: Ed Lopas takes care of the last shift his rowing<br />
team’s new world record of more than 145hr on the erg.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
boys on the egg at silly hours of<br />
the morning. It’s not the most fun<br />
thing to be on and the boys tend to<br />
shy away from it, but they wanted<br />
to do it for Ed,” said De Sousa.<br />
Senior rowers did shifts of<br />
90min with some of the movies<br />
doing shifts between 30-45min.<br />
The team began the world record<br />
big on <strong>February</strong> 5 and had<br />
surpassed the previous world<br />
record by the following Sunday<br />
afternoon.<br />
Ed was diagnosed with<br />
Hodgkin’s lymphoma in July last<br />
year.<br />
After five months of successful<br />
chemotherapy, Ed was cleared to<br />
start physical activity again and<br />
hopes to row at the Maadi Cup<br />
regatta on Lake Ruataniwha near<br />
Twizel next month.<br />
Burnside find success at Canty tennis champs<br />
SKILLS: Burnside duo Alkmini<br />
Giannakogiorou and Pavle<br />
Filipovic after winning their<br />
respective year 11 titles at the<br />
Canterbury secondary schools’<br />
tournament at Wilding Park<br />
last week.<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
BURNSIDE HIGH School<br />
found success at the two-day<br />
Canterbury secondary schools’<br />
tennis tournament at Wilding<br />
Park which finished on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
Two Burnside players won the<br />
year 11 girls and boys singles.<br />
with Pavle Filipovic prevailing<br />
over Shirley Boys’ High School’s<br />
Luca Landells in their final 6-1,<br />
7-5.<br />
It was then the turn of Alkmini<br />
Giannakogiorou to claim<br />
the year 11 girls final beating<br />
Christchurch Girls’ High<br />
School’s Natalie Hetherington<br />
6-0, 6-1.<br />
Christ’s College’s Liam Adams<br />
won the year 12 and 13 boys<br />
singles title by beating fellow<br />
Christ College teammate Nant<br />
Prachuabmog 6-1, 6-1.<br />
Rangi Ruru’s Jade Feneon<br />
came from a set down to beat St<br />
Andrews College’s Farrah Richards<br />
in the year 12 and 13 girls<br />
final 5-7, 6-1, 11-9.<br />
Jade teamed up with Lily<br />
Parkinson, who finished third in<br />
the year 11 singles earlier in the<br />
tournament, to win the year 12<br />
and 13 doubles with a 7-5,<br />
6-1 triumph over the Burnside<br />
duo of Alana Liu and Juliette<br />
Ma.<br />
Natalie did bounce back from<br />
her singles final defeat to claim<br />
the year 11 doubles final with<br />
partner Emma Tanner in three<br />
sets.<br />
The CGHS duo beat fellow<br />
schoolmates Freya Maguire and<br />
Scarlett Rutherford-Prince 6-4,<br />
46, 10-6.<br />
Nant and Nick Schneiderman<br />
combined to win the all Christ’s<br />
College final against Liam and<br />
Jenner Johnson 6-2, 6-4.<br />
WINNERS: Rangi Ruru’s Jade<br />
Feneon and Christ’s College’s<br />
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Tasty Bites<br />
WESTERN NEWS<br />
No more beeting around the bush<br />
• By Ian Knott<br />
Beetroot deserves so<br />
much more than being<br />
dumped from a can onto<br />
a green salad. Packed<br />
with essential nutrients,<br />
this vibrant vegetable is a<br />
great source of fibre, folate,<br />
manganese, potassium,<br />
iron, and vitamin C<br />
Beetroot and halloumi<br />
sliders with chilli jam<br />
Serves 4<br />
Ingredients<br />
400g tin chickpeas, rinsed and<br />
drained<br />
1 tsp ground cumin<br />
1-2 hot green chillis, finely<br />
chopped<br />
250g raw beetroot, peeled and<br />
grated (wear gloves to avoid<br />
staining your hands)<br />
2 Tbsp chopped parsley<br />
50g fresh wholemeal<br />
breadcrumbs<br />
1 egg<br />
olive oil<br />
Halloumi 1 slice per slider<br />
Handful of rocket<br />
8 or 12 small buns (brioche if you<br />
can get them), split and cut side<br />
toasted<br />
Chilli jam to serve<br />
Directions<br />
Put the chickpeas in a bowl<br />
and mash them roughly, add<br />
the cumin and chilli and mash<br />
again. Add the beetroot, parsley,<br />
breadcrumbs, egg and plenty of<br />
seasoning. Mix well and form into<br />
8 or 12 small patties.<br />
Heat about 1cm of oil in a<br />
frying pan and fry the patties on<br />
each side until they are crisp and<br />
brown. Drain on kitchen paper.<br />
Fry the halloumi briefly until it<br />
starts to brown a little. Put a few<br />
rocket leaves on the base of each<br />
bun, add a patty and a slice of<br />
halloumi followed by a spoon<br />
of chilli jam then put the lid on.<br />
A cocktail stick will hold the lot<br />
together. Serve 2 or 3 per person.<br />
Roast beetroot soup with<br />
caramelised onion and blue<br />
cheese toast<br />
Serves 6<br />
Ingredients<br />
1kg beetroots, topped, tailed,<br />
scrubbed clean and cut into large<br />
pieces<br />
1 red onion, cut into wedges<br />
3 cloves garlic<br />
½ a small bunch of thyme, plus a<br />
few leaves<br />
500ml vegetable stock<br />
100ml crème fraîche<br />
½ lemon, juiced<br />
For the toast<br />
3 slices sourdough, cut in half<br />
4 Tbsp caramelised onion<br />
chutney<br />
150g blue cheese<br />
handful of walnuts, roughly<br />
chopped<br />
Directions<br />
Heat the oven to 200 deg C<br />
(<strong>18</strong>0 deg C fan forced). Put the<br />
beetroots, red onion and garlic<br />
into a roasting tin, pour in 150ml<br />
of water, season well and scatter<br />
over the thyme. Cover with a<br />
double layer of foil and put into<br />
the oven for 1hr 15min or until<br />
the beetroots are very tender to<br />
the point of a knife.<br />
Remove the foil, peel the<br />
beetroots and discard the skin,<br />
then chop into small pieces. Put<br />
into a pan with the onion, garlic<br />
and vegetable stock, bring to the<br />
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or ladle into a blender and whizz.<br />
Season, then stir in the crème<br />
fraîche and lemon juice, and<br />
whizz again. Keep warm.<br />
Heat the grill to high. Put the<br />
bread pieces onto a baking tray<br />
and toast on either side. Spread<br />
each piece with the chutney and<br />
then add a piece of blue cheese,<br />
some thyme leaves and walnuts.<br />
Grill until melted.<br />
Spoon the soup into bowls and<br />
top with the toast.
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REAL ESTATE<br />
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Love the life you choose<br />
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Love the life<br />
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Love the Summerset life<br />
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you’ll feel completely at home.<br />
As a Summerset resident, you’ll enjoy all the benefits of being part of<br />
a thriving community including easy access to village facilities, events,<br />
activities and community spaces. And there’s support on hand should<br />
you need it in the future.<br />
Love the Confidence<br />
At a Summerset village you can live fully independently or, should<br />
you need it, you can receive support and care in your own home or<br />
apartment, or in our fully certified care centre. So, if your needs change,<br />
you can be confident you’ll get the support you need without having to<br />
leave the village.<br />
As a Summerset resident, you’ll have access to a range<br />
of community facilities, including;<br />
For your free information pack,<br />
call 0800 SUMMER (786 637) or visit summerset.co.nz<br />
Divine Café<br />
Exercise room<br />
Communal vegetable<br />
gardens<br />
Residents’ bar<br />
All-weather bowling green<br />
Residents’ workshop<br />
Hair and beauty salon<br />
Swimming pool and/or<br />
spa pool<br />
Regular visits from<br />
health practitioners<br />
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WESTERN NEWS<br />
Love the freedom at<br />
Summerset at Avonhead<br />
Brand-new homes available now!<br />
Living at Summerset means being part of a vibrant, welcoming community,<br />
where you can choose to be involved as much or as little as you like. Our residents<br />
quickly discover how our unique village life enables them to continue to love the<br />
life they choose.<br />
The village centre will be the community hub of our Avonhead village; It’ll feature<br />
a range of facilities including a café and indoor pool, plus rest home and hospitallevel<br />
care, and a state-of-the-art Memory Care Centre for those living with<br />
dementia. Come along to our Morning Tea and Tour to find the home that’s right<br />
for you. We’ll take you through our stunning new show homes, village plans and<br />
pricing, and answer any questions you may have.<br />
If you would like to get some information prior, you can make an appointment with<br />
our friendly team or call in and visit at a time that suits you - we’re open 7 days.<br />
Morning Tea<br />
and Tour<br />
Thursday 20 <strong>February</strong>,<br />
10am<br />
Summerset at Avonhead<br />
120 Hawthornden Road,<br />
Avonhead<br />
To find out more about Summerset, call us on<br />
0800 SUMMER (786 637) or visit summerset.co.nz<br />
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