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THURSDAY, JULY <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
MEET SUKI, the deaf dog<br />
learning sign language to<br />
communicate.<br />
The one-year-old heading<br />
dog has had a bit of a rough<br />
start to life, surrendered to the<br />
city council pound as a puppy<br />
before being taken in by her<br />
foster mum Rachel Johnston.<br />
While Suki’s past is unknown,<br />
it is expected that she<br />
was born on a farm but handed<br />
over to the pound once it was<br />
discovered she was deaf.<br />
Johnston works part-time at<br />
the Dogwatch Sanctuary Trust<br />
where Suki is up for adoption,<br />
but has welcomed Suki into her<br />
home until she finds a permanent<br />
one.<br />
When Suki arrived, she was<br />
very “bitey” and Johnston had<br />
to work patiently with her<br />
to train her how to behave,<br />
including teaching her sign<br />
language.<br />
Johnston uses hand signals<br />
to communicate with Suki<br />
and has taught her sit, stay,<br />
good dog and come, although<br />
admitted that’s still a work in<br />
progress.<br />
“I’ve never had a deaf dog<br />
ever so it was a big learning<br />
curve for me as well, you do<br />
end up talking to the dog all<br />
the time,” she said.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
• Dogwatch, pages 4-5<br />
BOND: Rachel Johnston<br />
has been fostering Suki,<br />
who is deaf, for more than<br />
a year now, and is teaching<br />
her sign language.<br />
PHOTO: EMILY<br />
MOORHOUSE <br />
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Deafness not holding Suki back<br />
Further<br />
calls to<br />
increase<br />
heat<br />
in pool<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
AQUA JOGGERS are backing<br />
calls for the temperature to be<br />
increased at Taiora QEII’s 25m<br />
lane pool.<br />
Waitai Coastal-Burwood<br />
Community Board member Linda<br />
Stewart last week said she was<br />
disappointed the temperature of<br />
27.5 deg C would not be increased.<br />
Her comments have led to<br />
readers backing Stewart’s claims,<br />
saying something needs to be<br />
done to accommodate for aqua<br />
joggers who also use the lane<br />
pool.<br />
Maria Craig has been a daily<br />
aqua jogger at QEII for “quite some<br />
years” now and said she’s had to<br />
purchase a “pricey” pair of cold<br />
water gloves for her arthritic<br />
hands.<br />
“Many, many people of all ages<br />
complain daily of the freezing<br />
cold water. I am now retired and<br />
doing my best to look after my<br />
health and leaving QEII in a daily<br />
semi-hyperthermic state is not<br />
beneficial at all to my health I feel.<br />
The water does need to be at least<br />
half a degree warmer.”<br />
Said Leonie Bowkett: “For<br />
goodness sake more stupid<br />
thinking from the council setting<br />
the pool temp to suit competitive<br />
swimmers when by far the<br />
majority of users are recreational<br />
and swimmers using the pool for<br />
daily exercise. It’s too cold.”<br />
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Thursday, 10.30am-1.45pm<br />
Upper Riccarton Library<br />
Go along and enjoy a chat with others<br />
as you knit. For anyone who loves<br />
to knit or wants to learn. Free, no<br />
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English Conversation Club<br />
Thursday, 11am-noon<br />
Upper Riccarton Library<br />
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A timely moment to celebrate the<br />
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THE NAVY and red logo was a staple of Christchurch’s 1974<br />
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Garden,<br />
pantry<br />
on the<br />
move<br />
• By Fiona E lis<br />
CURRENTLY thriving in<br />
peak season, this summer will<br />
be the last in Peverel St for the<br />
Riccarton Community Garden<br />
and Pātaka.<br />
However, Nick Te Paa (right)<br />
is staying positive abou the<br />
move that will be required<br />
when the lease on the 151<br />
Peverel St site expires in September.<br />
Te Paa and his wife Loretta<br />
helped set up the community<br />
garden in 2013, later expanding<br />
the projec to include a community<br />
pantry, or pātaka.<br />
At not quite 4 sq m, the<br />
pātaka was too sma l for the<br />
weekly average of about 40<br />
people it helped to feed, Te Paa<br />
said.<br />
“We don’t have the capacity<br />
to store here, so a lot of the stuff<br />
is stored at my place, in the<br />
garage.”<br />
He hoped to rebuild it at<br />
twice the current size when a<br />
new location was settled on.<br />
“A l that extra wi l be just<br />
storage space, and that’ l<br />
free up my garage. One side’s<br />
completely taken up with food.”<br />
The end of the Kāinga Ora<br />
lease was likely to mean the<br />
separation of the garden and<br />
the pantry.<br />
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• By Fiona E lis<br />
A VOLUNTEER community<br />
patrol has been tasked with<br />
policing dangerous intersections<br />
in a bid to improve driver<br />
behaviour.<br />
The Hornby Community<br />
Patrol has been monitoring three<br />
intersections, including one where<br />
a cyclist died after co liding with a<br />
truck.<br />
Patrol<br />
secretary Ann<br />
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the patrol had<br />
been tasked<br />
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The Buchanans and Carmen<br />
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />
Kids ‘gutted’ after bike stolen<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
THE OWNER of a unique cargo<br />
bike that was stolen from his<br />
garage is overwhelmed by the<br />
supportive response from the<br />
community.<br />
Al Duncan’s bucket bike<br />
was stolen earlier this month<br />
from his home in Waltham<br />
and after nearly three weeks of<br />
no sightings, he has decided to<br />
replace it.<br />
Duncan bought the bike from<br />
Bicycle Junction in Wellington<br />
and made the bucket box in<br />
his friend’s workshop, after<br />
measuring his children to<br />
make sure they would fit. Every<br />
morning Neema, 10, and Malo,<br />
8, would climb in for what many<br />
would say is a unique ride to<br />
school, 30min across town to<br />
Burnside.<br />
However, earlier this month,<br />
Duncan left a garage door<br />
opener in his unlocked car,<br />
which was parked up his<br />
driveway. When he returned<br />
that night, he noticed his car was<br />
unlocked, so locked it without<br />
thinking much of it and put his<br />
bike in the garage.<br />
The next morning his garage<br />
door was wide open and his<br />
bike was gone along with power<br />
tools, cycling gear and hiking<br />
packs.<br />
He said someone must have<br />
taken the garage door opener out<br />
of his unlocked car during the<br />
UNIQUE: The bucket bike when Al Duncan first brought it to Christchurch from Wellington<br />
just over four years ago. Duncan took a selfie with his children Malo (left) and Neema each<br />
time they took a ride in the bucket bike.<br />
day and returned that night to<br />
steal his belongings.<br />
“It’s not the kind of bike you<br />
can throw in the back of a car<br />
and take off because it’s got a<br />
really long wheel base so you<br />
need a long van or trailer to pick<br />
it up and take it somewhere,”<br />
Duncan said.<br />
Duncan phoned police to<br />
file a report straight away but<br />
after not hearing anything back<br />
and contacting his insurance<br />
company, he has decided to<br />
replace the bike.<br />
The bike originally cost<br />
Duncan $8000, with extra<br />
costs to build the bucket box,<br />
but now the price has hiked up<br />
to $13,000 due to supply chain<br />
issues and inflation, something<br />
Duncan is willing to pay to get it<br />
replaced.<br />
Duncan was “blown away”<br />
by the support he received<br />
online about his stolen bike<br />
and has more than 30,000 views<br />
on his LinkedIn post and more<br />
than 100 likes on his Facebook<br />
post.<br />
He had received comments<br />
from members of the community<br />
saying they’ve seen him ride<br />
through the city with his kids.<br />
“When you’re on a bike like<br />
that and you’ve got kids in it<br />
you get people giving you a wide<br />
birth and people winding down<br />
their window and talking to<br />
you at traffic lights and just real<br />
engagement with people around<br />
you so it’s been really noticed in<br />
the community.”<br />
Duncan said the bike was a<br />
big part of time spent with his<br />
children, taking it to Little River<br />
for a camping trip and taking<br />
selfies in it together each time<br />
they ride.<br />
“I’ve got four years of pictures<br />
of them growing up in the bucket<br />
so it’s really close to my heart.”<br />
Duncan said he was nervous<br />
to tell Neema and Malo the bike<br />
had been stolen but said while<br />
they were “gutted” they handled<br />
it well and his friend has even let<br />
them use his, which is a similar<br />
model.<br />
“There’s been a beautiful<br />
response from people and I’m<br />
really grateful for that,” Duncan<br />
said.<br />
“To be burgled is a pretty<br />
horrible feeling but to have<br />
that love and support around<br />
instantly from the community<br />
has been uplifting and helps you<br />
remember the positive things<br />
rather than focusing on the<br />
negative.”<br />
Applications<br />
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APPLICATIONS have opened<br />
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funding for activities that bring<br />
neighbourhoods together.<br />
The scheme has been operating<br />
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“The beauty of Summer With<br />
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They choose how they want<br />
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council head of community support<br />
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“The reason the council provides<br />
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we know how important it is<br />
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Helping dogs find their forever home<br />
Hundreds of dogs<br />
are abandoned<br />
or surrendered to<br />
Dogwatch’s shelter each<br />
year. Reporter Emily<br />
Moorhouse chats with<br />
Bridget Paterson about<br />
what life is like in the<br />
shelter and why she<br />
loves her job<br />
BRIDGET Paterson pinches<br />
herself everyday going to work<br />
and said she is doing her “dream<br />
job”.<br />
“My job is basically hanging out<br />
with dogs and doing what I do for<br />
dogs, we’re all dog lovers so it’s a<br />
really, really cool place to be.”<br />
That place is Bromley’s Dogwatch<br />
Sanctuary Trust, an organisation<br />
that rescues, retrains and stay dog at more than 600 days, while Stanley (below) has<br />
GOOD BOY: Boss is the Dogwatch Sanctuary Trust’s longest<br />
rehomes the city’s unwanted dogs. become an essential member of the admin team.<br />
Paterson joined the Dogwatch<br />
team at the end of March as the However, she closed the store and they also foster them.”<br />
general manger when the organisation<br />
underwent restructuring tourists, and is now responsible cat, both from the SPCA, and<br />
during Covid due to a lack of Paterson has a rescue dog and<br />
due to staff shortages with Covid. for pulling in funding to keep said her mother was also a dog<br />
The trust doesn’t receive any Dogwatch running.<br />
lover, so was surrounded by dogs<br />
funding so relies heavily on Like the other staff members growing up.<br />
volunteers, the Dogwatch Variety and volunteers at Dogwatch, Paterson<br />
is a dog lover and admitted constantly running at full capac-<br />
Because the organisation is<br />
Shop in New Brighton and donations<br />
from the public.<br />
to becoming attached to the dogs ity, they often juggle the dogs<br />
Paterson has a background in that come through the trust’s between 14 kennels at the trust,<br />
marketing and fundraising, previously<br />
doors.<br />
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adoption trials.<br />
263<br />
working for Canterbury “Everyone’s<br />
x<br />
nuts about<br />
180<br />
dogs<br />
West Coast Air Rescue Trust here,” she said.<br />
“Shelter life is hard on lots of<br />
before owning a jewellery store in “Pretty much everyone that dogs so if they’re dog nervous or<br />
the central city.<br />
works here has a dog from here don’t do well with other dogs this<br />
SECOND<br />
CHANCE:<br />
Bridget Paterson<br />
is the general<br />
manager at<br />
Dogwatch,<br />
working with<br />
staff member<br />
Rachel Johnston<br />
(left) to retrain<br />
and rehome the<br />
city’s unwanted<br />
dogs.<br />
PHOTO: EMILY<br />
MOORHOUSE<br />
is a really hard place for them to<br />
be, they can get quite stressed, so<br />
we work really hard with them<br />
on that,” Paterson said.<br />
One dog in particular that<br />
struggles with stress and noise<br />
from other dogs is Stanley, the<br />
two-year-old Staffy cross who<br />
became an essential member of<br />
the admin team.<br />
Stanley gets stressed from the<br />
noise of other dogs barking and<br />
tries to escape, often hurting<br />
himself in the process, so spends<br />
time in the office with staff during<br />
the day.<br />
“He’s really relaxed there<br />
because he’s around people,”<br />
Paterson said.<br />
The trust gets most of its<br />
dogs from council pounds like<br />
Waimakariri, Selwyn, Ashburton<br />
and the city.<br />
The majority of them are surrendered<br />
by owners who can no<br />
longer care for them, or they are<br />
abandoned and picked up from<br />
the side of the road.<br />
Paterson said the hardest part<br />
of the job is coming across dogs<br />
that have been mistreated and<br />
hearing the stories of their past.<br />
Two months ago the trust<br />
had two small dogs dumped on<br />
the driveway in a crate during a<br />
“freezing” night, while another<br />
with a broken tail was dumped<br />
on the side of the road.<br />
“People do some pretty awful<br />
things,” she said.<br />
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a fulfilling day’s work<br />
“They’re sad stories . . . it’s just<br />
disheartening the way some<br />
people treat an animal and when<br />
you’re an animal lover that’s hard<br />
to handle.”<br />
However, staff and volunteers<br />
work with these dogs to build up<br />
their trust again, giving them the<br />
chance to show their true character<br />
once comfortable.<br />
In fact, most of the dogs at the<br />
trust are named after certain traits<br />
or characteristics they have.<br />
One dog in particular New<br />
Brighton residents will be familiar<br />
with was named Trapper,<br />
after multiple attempts at trying<br />
to catch him while he was living<br />
at New Brighton Beach, causing<br />
quite the fuss on a Facebook<br />
community group.<br />
Paterson said while staff and<br />
volunteers form a bond with each<br />
dog, they are stoked to see them<br />
get adopted into a loving family<br />
who looks after them.<br />
“We couldn’t survive without<br />
those volunteers, they’re amazing,”<br />
Paterson said.<br />
The trust has 120 volunteers,<br />
with animal behaviourists and a<br />
qualified dog trainer in the mix,<br />
retraining dogs with traumatic<br />
pasts that can make rehoming<br />
difficult.<br />
Paterson said some dogs have<br />
experienced being hit by things<br />
such as a leash, so have developed<br />
a fear of leashes that has to<br />
be worked through.<br />
“They each have their own<br />
FUR BABY: Bridget<br />
Paterson with her current<br />
rescue dog, Tobee.<br />
little challenges. When we get<br />
a dog, we don’t know their full<br />
history so we don’t know what<br />
we’re dealing with until we get to<br />
know them.”<br />
Occasionally, when a dog gets<br />
adopted it will be returned to the<br />
trust if the owners can’t care for<br />
it properly, which Paterson said<br />
was quite hard.<br />
“We always try to be really<br />
kind to people that need to surrender<br />
dogs because often it’s a<br />
hard thing to do . . . so we need<br />
to be supportive.”<br />
Three-year-old Boss, a Rottweiler<br />
cross rescued from the<br />
city council pound, is the trust’s<br />
longest-stay dog, having spent<br />
more than 600 days in the shelter.<br />
He is currently undergoing<br />
an adoption trial, which staff<br />
hope will be a success.<br />
Staff and volunteers tend to<br />
stay in contact with people who<br />
adopt the dogs, and get sent<br />
photos and updates on how<br />
they’re doing, even years after the<br />
adoption.<br />
“We do tend to have long-term<br />
relationships with people and<br />
they’ll adopt a dog but then come<br />
back to get a second dog,” Paterson<br />
said.<br />
This year marks 40 years of<br />
the trust operating. To celebrate,<br />
staff want to build an adventure<br />
park for the dogs on the five-acre<br />
patch of land at the trust.<br />
The park will be fit with tunnels,<br />
obstacle courses, sprinklers,<br />
a paddle pool, a sand pit and<br />
everything else a dog needs to<br />
play with.<br />
There is currently a Givealittle<br />
page with a goal to raise $40,000<br />
by the end of the year.<br />
Paterson said they had “a long<br />
way to go” with having only raised<br />
a little under $3000, but the trust<br />
will soon be approaching funders<br />
and launching a separate campaign,<br />
which she hopes will bring<br />
in more donations.<br />
“Shelter life for dogs is quite<br />
hard, they don’t get the one-onone<br />
attention they would if they<br />
were in a home so something<br />
like that, that enables them to<br />
be challenged and do different<br />
things and just enable them to<br />
play, would be fantastic.”<br />
• To donate to the<br />
adventure park go to<br />
https://givealittle.co.nz/<br />
cause/dog-adventurepark-for-dogwatchs-40thanniversary<br />
‘It will be great to get<br />
her into a nice home’<br />
• From page 1<br />
“I still talk to her a lot but obviously<br />
it’s not something you can<br />
use in training.”<br />
Johnston tried using high pitch<br />
whistles and clicker training as<br />
the vet suspects Suki can hear<br />
some loud noises, but when she<br />
didn’t respond to these Johnston<br />
made up her own hand symbols.<br />
“I looked at a few things online<br />
. . . I just went with what was<br />
easiest at the time and what made<br />
sense to me,” she said.<br />
Suki has been in Johnston’s care<br />
for just over a year now, a longer<br />
stay than most foster dogs.<br />
“She’s been my longest term. I<br />
wasn’t expecting to have her for<br />
this long,” Johnston laughed.<br />
Fostering and rescuing dogs is<br />
second nature to Johnston, who<br />
has volunteered in India and<br />
Thailand to help care for street<br />
dogs.<br />
She has also taught animal care<br />
at Ara when it was called Aoraki<br />
Polytechnic several years ago, and<br />
is currently completing a masters<br />
in clinical animal behaviour<br />
through The University of Edinburgh.<br />
Johnston also has a ridgeback<br />
shar-pei cross named Keke,<br />
rescued from the city council<br />
pound, who doesn’t mind being<br />
rounded up by Suki when they go<br />
on walks.<br />
When Johnston throws a ball<br />
Suki has been in a foster<br />
home for more than a year.<br />
for Keke, Suki will often chase<br />
after her, running out wide and<br />
then bringing her back in, as<br />
a heading dog would do with<br />
livestock.<br />
“She’s a smart dog, she needs a<br />
lot of mental stimulation as well<br />
as the right exercise . . . it will be<br />
great as well to get her into a nice<br />
home,” Johnston said.<br />
“I’ll definitely miss her, I will,<br />
you always do. You always miss<br />
your fosters, you always shed a<br />
tear, but I want her to have a good<br />
home.”<br />
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 7<br />
Cool temperature a hot topic<br />
• From page 1<br />
Last week,<br />
city council<br />
head of recreation,<br />
sports and<br />
events Nigel Cox<br />
said the pool<br />
temperature<br />
would not be Nigel Cox<br />
adjusted at this<br />
stage.<br />
Cox said the pool, which is<br />
used for both aqua exercise and<br />
competitive swimming, is based<br />
on user’s preferences with competitive<br />
swimmers preferring a<br />
cooler temperature so they don’t<br />
get dehydrated during training.<br />
Aneta Green said she finds<br />
the lane pool is too cold and has<br />
stopped going.<br />
“I am sick of not being able<br />
to use the lap pool, as it is being<br />
used by other recreation groups,<br />
but still being charged full price<br />
for half the service, as a local<br />
who tries to use local city council<br />
services, it is a very disappointing<br />
service, and I will no longer be<br />
using the pool facilities.”<br />
Jenny Walkinshaw does aqua<br />
jogging at QEII and said she has<br />
got out of the pool feeling “shivery<br />
and cold” in spite of moving<br />
around a lot.<br />
“The cool temperature of the<br />
water is always a topic of conversation.<br />
There is a noticeable<br />
decrease in numbers using the<br />
aqua jogging area – however, this<br />
may be due to Covid. This week<br />
we counted a maximum of seven<br />
aqua joggers in the pool at any<br />
one time – there used to be 20+.”<br />
Stewart said she’s disappointed<br />
that the community board “isn’t<br />
taking leadership” on this issue.<br />
“The community board<br />
chairperson holds the top job in<br />
the ward. His/her role is to lead<br />
that board in advocating for its<br />
community, not disempower<br />
another elected member,” she<br />
said.<br />
“Here we see staff saying they<br />
won’t improve water temperature<br />
supported by the chairperson<br />
who incidentally swims at Graham<br />
Condon Centre.”<br />
However, community board<br />
chair Kelly Barber said he swims<br />
at both Graham Condon and<br />
QEII, and sometimes thinks<br />
Graham Condon is colder than<br />
QEII.<br />
“If people think it’s cold then<br />
I guess that’s an operational<br />
matter,” he said.<br />
“We asked staff for an answer<br />
and they gave us that and we<br />
were happy with that, except for<br />
maybe Linda . . . I don’t know<br />
what she expects of us really.”<br />
Barber said it was a difficult<br />
situation and if staff increased the<br />
temperature then he wondered if<br />
complaints would arise from the<br />
competitive swimmers as well.<br />
Diane Hale-Fielding said QEII<br />
is her main pool and has “got<br />
colder” as time goes by.<br />
“Linwood pool much warmer<br />
probably by a degree or so but it<br />
makes a difference. I do Aquafit<br />
at QEII and we all feel the same<br />
it truly is uncomfortable. The<br />
pool is supposed to be for all not<br />
just the swimmers who say they<br />
sweat. We pay as well.”<br />
Sandra McCarthy thinks the<br />
pool is too cold and said the aqua<br />
fit class has mentioned this to<br />
staff often.<br />
“There are up to two classes on<br />
most days of the week, with at<br />
least 25 of us in each class paying<br />
at least $8.70 and up to $11.50 a<br />
session. Surely this give us some<br />
say and consideration.”<br />
Vivien Coulter has been<br />
attending aquafit classes every<br />
weekday for the last two years at<br />
QEII, Pioneer and Linwood and<br />
said the QEII pool makes her feel<br />
“chilled to the bone.”<br />
“Many of the people who<br />
attend are limited to exercising<br />
only in the water because of<br />
age, injury or disabilities and<br />
if they stop doing this because<br />
of the cold there wellbeing is<br />
compromised.<br />
“Perhaps the instructors<br />
could do a head count of the<br />
class attendees who find the<br />
temperature too cold?”<br />
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WITH THE <strong>2022</strong>/23 season in<br />
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in Dundee, its immediate success<br />
seeing many children joining the<br />
club and subsequently playing<br />
events and progressing to become<br />
competing juniors.<br />
“I enjoy being on court and<br />
working in all areas of the<br />
coaching programme,” he said.<br />
“I’m exciting about working<br />
with Waimairi club members and<br />
helping them achieve their tennis<br />
goals. I want to see the club grow<br />
even better and for there to be<br />
opportunities and potential for<br />
everyone involved.”<br />
Andrew<br />
Fairley<br />
Amanda<br />
Marchant<br />
Fairley succeeds Waimairi’s<br />
long-serving head coach Stu<br />
Chalmers who is moving to North<br />
Canterbury.<br />
A keen competitive player<br />
Marchant now plays socially<br />
and actively supports two of<br />
her children who are members<br />
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teams.<br />
“Tennis is such a fantastic<br />
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whichever level they choose to<br />
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Marchant, who has been<br />
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Warm up with a<br />
plum pudding<br />
A warm,<br />
sustaining<br />
dessert is always<br />
welcome during<br />
the cold winter<br />
months<br />
Plum pudding<br />
Serves 8<br />
Ingredients<br />
600gm dried fruit, place<br />
in large casserole dish<br />
with:<br />
¼ cup sherry<br />
125gm butter, melt, then<br />
add:<br />
Finely grated rind of 1<br />
large orange<br />
1 egg, beaten with a fork<br />
2 cups flour sifted with:<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1 teaspoon mixed spice<br />
1 teaspoon ground cloves<br />
½ cup brown sugar<br />
Directions<br />
Select a heatproof bowl (or<br />
loaf tin) which will hold<br />
five cups and will fit into<br />
crockpot.<br />
Grease the bowl/tin<br />
with butter, then line with<br />
microwave-proof cling film.<br />
Microwave fruit/sherry<br />
for five minutes or until all<br />
the fruit is hot, plump and<br />
shiny.<br />
The liquid will soak into<br />
the fruit as it cools.<br />
Cool the mixture to<br />
room temperature before<br />
using it.<br />
Turn the crockpot onto<br />
high and fill with two cups<br />
hot water. Add brown sugar<br />
to the flour/baking soda/<br />
mixed spice/ground cloves,<br />
then tip butter/orange rind/<br />
egg into dry ingredients<br />
and mix well. Add the fruit<br />
mixture and mix gently, but<br />
thoroughly.<br />
Spoon mixture into<br />
prepared bowl/tin and level<br />
off the top.<br />
Cover with tin foil, folding<br />
the edges down over<br />
the bowl.<br />
Lower the bowl/tin into<br />
the crockpot and put the lid<br />
on. Cook on high to eight<br />
to 12 hours.<br />
Turn out while still warm<br />
as it will be less likely to<br />
stick to the container at this<br />
stage, then wrap and cool<br />
completely.<br />
Serve with brandy sauce,<br />
custard and/or whipped<br />
cream.<br />
Brandy sauce<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 cup blue milk, place in<br />
medium-sized bowl with:<br />
1 packet vanilla instant<br />
pudding<br />
300ml cream<br />
½ teaspoon nutmeg<br />
3 tablespoons brandy<br />
Directions<br />
Beat milk/instant pudding<br />
with hand beater until<br />
well mixed.<br />
Pour in the cream (all<br />
of it), add the nutmeg and<br />
brandy and beat again until<br />
it is just mixed.<br />
Can be eaten straight<br />
away or can be warmed in<br />
the microwave.<br />
Caramel sticky date<br />
pudding<br />
Serves 6<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 cup water, place in<br />
largest casserole dish with:<br />
400gm pitted dates,<br />
chopped roughly<br />
150gm butter<br />
2 tablespoons golden<br />
syrup<br />
2 tablespoons sugar<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1 cup plain glour, sifted<br />
with:<br />
2 teaspoons cinnamon<br />
2 eggs, lightly beaten<br />
Heat water/dates/butter/golden<br />
syrup/sugar for<br />
10 minutes, stirring until<br />
reduced leaving the dates<br />
moist.<br />
Leave to cool for 15<br />
minutes, while still warm<br />
add baking soda to the date<br />
mixture and stir to combine<br />
(this should froth to<br />
add lightness to the mix),<br />
then add flour/cinnamon<br />
and the eggs, stirring until<br />
everything is evenly combined.<br />
Pour into small<br />
springform pan that has<br />
been well greased and lined<br />
with baking paper, and<br />
bake at 180 deg C for 50<br />
minutes. While it is baking,<br />
make caramel sauce, as<br />
follows:<br />
½ cup brown sugar, place<br />
in large casserole dish<br />
with:<br />
½ cup golden syrup<br />
50gm butter<br />
1 cup cream<br />
1 teaspoon vanilla essence<br />
Directions<br />
Heat until all the ingredients<br />
have dissolved, stirring<br />
constantly until sauce turns<br />
a golden caramel colour,<br />
beat with egg beater to<br />
remove any lumps.<br />
To serve: Pour the warm<br />
sauce over the pudding and<br />
serve with ice cream and/<br />
or cream.<br />
Spicy apple flancake<br />
Makes 8 pieces<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 large apples (cored &<br />
diced), place in large bowl<br />
with:<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
125gm butter (melted)<br />
1 egg (lightly beaten)<br />
1½ cups flour, sifted with:<br />
½ teaspoon salt<br />
1 teaspoon ground<br />
cinnamon<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
½ teaspoon ground<br />
nutmeg<br />
½ teaspoon allspice<br />
1 cup raisins<br />
Icing sugar (to dust top<br />
with when cooked)<br />
Directions<br />
Leave apples/sugar to stand<br />
while other ingredients are<br />
prepared.<br />
Add egg and butter to<br />
apples/sugar, then add the<br />
dry ingredients and lastly<br />
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Spread into small<br />
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lined with baking paper.<br />
Bake at 180 deg C for<br />
60min, remove from oven<br />
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When cooled slightly,<br />
but while still warm, dust<br />
top with icing sugar.<br />
Leave to stand 10min<br />
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Serve either hot or cold,<br />
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cream, or can just be eaten<br />
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CROSSWORD<br />
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253<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
153<br />
6<br />
A L Y<br />
G E C<br />
11 12<br />
13 14 15 16 17<br />
18 19 20<br />
How many words of three or more letters,<br />
How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
words or words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23<br />
Solution 152: age, anger, are, ear, earn, era, erg,<br />
err, gar, GARNER, gean, gear, gen, gran, nag, near,<br />
rag, rage, ran, rang, range, RANGER, rare, rear, rag,<br />
word. reran.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
from the six letters, using each only<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Good 15 Very Good 19 Excellent 23<br />
<strong>21</strong> 22 23 24<br />
25 26<br />
27 28<br />
Across<br />
1. Hollers (7)<br />
5. Puku (7)<br />
9. Taxonomic group (5)<br />
10. Pact (9)<br />
11. Adamant (9)<br />
12. Marsh plant (5)<br />
13. Dodge (5)<br />
15. Persecuted (9)<br />
18. Onlooker (9)<br />
19. Wild dog (5)<br />
<strong>21</strong>. Tropical fruit (5)<br />
23. Neat, orderly (9)<br />
25. Wipe out (9)<br />
26. Components (5)<br />
27. Unrelated line of thought (7)<br />
28. Novice (7)<br />
Decoder<br />
R<br />
A<br />
B<br />
Down<br />
1. Charm, enchant (7)<br />
2. Scenery (9)<br />
3. Watering hole (5)<br />
4. Person made to take the blame<br />
(9)<br />
5. Swagger (5)<br />
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6. Exceed budget (9)<br />
7. Alter (5)<br />
8. Reckless, impetuous person (7)<br />
14. Repatriate (9)<br />
16. Having relevance (9)<br />
17. Feeling (9)<br />
18. Propose (7)<br />
20. Supervise (7)<br />
22. Once more (5)<br />
23. Minimal (5)<br />
24. Steam bath (5)<br />
J Y E S L W N M X K B A H<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <strong>21</strong> 22 23 24 25 26<br />
P G T F C R U V O Q Z I D<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
A F Shuker<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
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A R<br />
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B<br />
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SOLUTION<br />
No.153<br />
20 23 5 23 23 9 20 23 1 13<br />
25 <strong>21</strong> 4 14 10 9 1 12 9<br />
3 15 16 3 13 8 24 4 5 20 15<br />
23 11 9 3 3 2 17 3<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Bellows, 5.<br />
Stomach, 9. Genus, 10.<br />
Agreement, 11. Insistent,<br />
12. Sedge, 13. Evade, 15.<br />
Oppressed, 18. Spectator,<br />
19. Dingo, <strong>21</strong>. Guava, 23.<br />
Shipshape, 25. Eradicate,<br />
26. Units, 27. Tangent, 28.<br />
Trainee.<br />
Down: 1. Beguile, 2.<br />
Landscape, 3. Oasis, 4.<br />
Scapegoat, 5. Strut, 6.<br />
Overspend, 7. Amend, 8.<br />
Hothead, 14. Extradite, 16.<br />
Pertinent, 17. Sensation, 18.<br />
Suggest, 20. Oversee, 22.<br />
Again, 23. Scant, 24. Sauna.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
ace, age, agley, ale, aye,<br />
cage, cagey, cagy, cay, clay,<br />
cleg, gal, gale, gay, gel, lac,<br />
lace, lacy, lag, lay, lea, leg,<br />
LEGACY, ley, lye, yea.<br />
Sudoku<br />
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
DECODER<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />
Each by the number other represents numbers. a As different you get letter the of letters, the alphabet. enter them Write into the<br />
given the main letters grid, into all and squares the reference with matching grid. numbers. To keep Now track work of out the<br />
which letters letters you are have represented found, cross by them other off numbers. the alphabet provided.<br />
3 12 3 14 7 3 6 12 8 25 18<br />
9 6 26 9 16 16<br />
20 25 12 18 8 16 20 13 16 3 3 25<br />
E N D<br />
12 7 24 17 16 9 23<br />
5 9 <strong>21</strong> 1 25 6 12 17 9 20 25<br />
1 12 17 18 2<br />
16 22 26 25 18 16 25 6 6 12 8 16<br />
10 17 9 9 2<br />
7 25 4 12 5 12 9 20 25 13 9<br />
25 19 7 16 23 <strong>21</strong> 5<br />
24 6 16 16 11 12 18 15 4 16 3 16<br />
18 12 11 9 20 25<br />
16 25 6 18 15 3 19 9 3 12 20<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
D<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <strong>21</strong> 22 23 24 25 26<br />
E<br />
N<br />
SOLUTION<br />
No.152<br />
153<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
X W I G D C L B H O S R P<br />
N A M Z K E V F Y Q U J T<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 <strong>21</strong> 22 23 24 25 26<br />
14 7 1 9 5 24 9 20 5 17 24 9<br />
1 23 23 26 3<br />
14 24 5 1 26 <strong>21</strong> 15 9 12 12 1<br />
24 15 <strong>21</strong> 5 5 10 4 15<br />
9 22 9 20 14 10 4 22 22 11 15<br />
5 8 9 4 24<br />
20 2 5 24 16 3 20 3 13 4 15<br />
A F Shuker<br />
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