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NEWS<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>August</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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$4m water reform<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Councilcan access $4<br />
millionaspart of aGovernment plan on water<br />
reform that will see $761 million invested<br />
aroundthe country to upgrade three waters<br />
infrastructure.<br />
The funding is made available to councils<br />
agreeingtoparticipate in thefirstphase of the<br />
three waters services reform programme.<br />
Council will decide whether to participate in<br />
the first phase of the reformprogramme before<br />
the <strong>August</strong> 31 deadline.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Mayor Neil Brown said<br />
while participation was nonbinding,<br />
committing to the first phase of work to better<br />
understand the process may prove beneficial.<br />
Cadets at the recent Ex Top Squad event held at Staveley Camp.<br />
PHOTO SUPPLIED.<br />
Local cadets win top squad<br />
Army, airand sea cadets from around<br />
Canterbury and furtherafieldhave<br />
enjoyed anumber of competitive<br />
challenges at the annual Ex Top<br />
Squad event.<br />
Held at Staveley Camp, this year’s<br />
event was attended by eight units,<br />
with seven single unit teams of eight<br />
andthree mixed teams.<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong>contingent<br />
performedwelland wonthe overall<br />
title, finishing ahead of theTSGodley<br />
Sea Cadetteam .Itisthe first local<br />
victorysince 2017.<br />
Activity challenges on day one<br />
includedasimulated car crash with<br />
three injured patients, the recovery<br />
of aunimog from the mudusing<br />
ropes, block and tackles,survivor<br />
stylepuzzle activity,agrenade range<br />
withtennis balls and plastic bottles<br />
as targets,and agiant Jenga.<br />
On day two there was ateamcrosscountry<br />
challenge, cannonrun,<br />
observationscavenger hunt, and<br />
relay where teams worked out how to<br />
make an old schoolbed pack.<br />
This years’s competition was close,<br />
with justseven points the difference<br />
between the seventhplace team and<br />
the two teams tied forthird equal,<br />
said <strong>Ashburton</strong> Cadet Unitmajor<br />
Cezarne Rodgers.<br />
Ex Top Squad provided an<br />
opportunity for sergeantsand<br />
corporalstolead asection for longer<br />
thanjustafew leadership activities<br />
on aparadenightand was funfor<br />
cadets, said Major Rodgers.<br />
The VIP guests at the event<br />
included the commandantofCadet<br />
ForceLTCDR Andrew Law, whotook<br />
the opportunity to present six<br />
members of <strong>Ashburton</strong>Cadet Unit<br />
with silvercoins for their second<br />
placinginthe Ffennell<br />
Commonwealth Shooting<br />
Competitionlastyear.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
September<br />
17, 18, 21, 22 &23<br />
2303923<br />
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Gregory O’Brien’sacrylic on canvas work Poem in the Matukituki ValleyI,2018.<br />
From felt, to wading birds<br />
Two new exhibitionshave<br />
openedat<strong>Ashburton</strong> Art<br />
Gallery, one featuring the<br />
creativetalents ofmembers<br />
of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Creative<br />
Fibre Groupand theother<br />
showcasing worksby<br />
prominentNew Zealand<br />
artist GregoryO’Brien.<br />
Thecreativefibre groupis<br />
celebrating its golden<br />
anniversary and the<br />
exhibition is called<br />
Celebrating Fibrecrafts.<br />
The 50membergroup was<br />
formerly known as<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Spinners and<br />
Weavers and members are<br />
skilled in arange of fibrerelated<br />
techniqueslike<br />
spinning, dyeing, weaving,<br />
needlecraft and felting.<br />
Thegroupactively<br />
encouragesthe use of<br />
traditional skillsand the<br />
exhibition features anumber<br />
of impressive handcrafted<br />
garments andotheritems<br />
made fromnatural fibre.<br />
It offers an insight into<br />
processesand fibre<br />
preparation, as well as<br />
various fibrecraft<br />
techniques.<br />
Highlights includeahandknitted<br />
and crocheted bridal<br />
gown in silk and freshwater<br />
pearls, areplica<br />
Christchurch Cathedraland<br />
MidCanterbury diorama<br />
made byall members of the<br />
group.<br />
GregoryO’Brien’s showis<br />
calledThe Wading Birds of<br />
Drybread.<br />
In2018 the Wellingtonbased<br />
artistand writer,and<br />
his wife, poetJenny<br />
Bornholdt, livedand worked<br />
in HendersonHouse,<br />
Alexandra as artistinresidence.<br />
Havingspent much of his<br />
life untilthen near the coast<br />
and usually within sight of<br />
the sea,the move to Central<br />
Otagoopened up anew<br />
territory for the artist,<br />
including the neighbouring<br />
CluthaRiver.<br />
Theworksinthe first part<br />
of theexhibition are an<br />
account of how the year in<br />
the region was spent. O’Brien<br />
and his wife sawthemselves<br />
as displaced‘‘wading birds’’.<br />
Thesecond part of this<br />
exhibition extends beyond<br />
the South Island to revisit<br />
RaoulIslandand the<br />
Kermadec waters.<br />
Celebrating Fibrecrafts<br />
runs until September27and<br />
The Wading Birds of<br />
Drybread untilOctober 9.<br />
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