METHVEN A&P SHOW 12 Ashburton Guardian
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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There is much excitement leading into the 104th Methven A&P Show on Saturday. There will be all the usual attractions that Methven is renowned for, its popular wine and food festival with live music, a full animal tent, wood chopping, well supported gift lamb and calf auctions, equestrian events, top team competition, arts and craft market, side-shows and rides. Entertainment includes Mullet Man of New Zealand Buskers’ Festival fame, as well as renowned local performers Wayne Pannett, Matt Gorman and Greta Casey-Solly, performing in the wine and food area. There will be a special focus in the woolshed this year with shearers fleecing off for their last chance to head to the New Zealand championships. The trade space is jam-packed full to and helping in the stock yards. And then there’s the amazing support capacity, and has been recently revamped with new power boxes and underground that our wives, partners and mums propower cables, making it convenient for all vide when challenges are thrown our way, such when the climate forms machinery. Please check yourofproof carefully and approve it or submit corrections by the Finalas Proof Alterations deadline. or markets are not working in our favour. There is a very important theme as we go pprove or submit changes to your ad within the ATOL system at a time that suits you. Just follow the link has certainly intoad,this year’s is thebutton contribuail to view your then click the show, APPROVEwhich or CORRECTIONS right from thereThat - no new emails required! been the case for me, with wife Wendy, who is mum to our four tion that women have made to agriculture BLE WATER LTD publishing 05/03/18 booked size 12.00 X 2.0 children, and mum Gaye, having been abAA (100%) in New Zealand. publication NZ DAIRY FARMER dimensions 8.8X12, cms width by height solute rocks in my Women are soBUSINESS often the unsung heroes ofproofed section DIRECTORY 20/02/2018 11:11:36 a.m.farming career. I would like to thank not only them as we the farming world, and we want the Methven Show this year to be a time to reflect approach another successful Methven A&P Show, but also my fellow hardworking comupon that. mittee, our members, and the many sponFamily farming is rewarding, but also Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2 Ashburton Guardian hard work, and where would we be without sors who support the show. the huge contribution made by our womenfolk? They are often busy bringing up children, but they are also rearing calves, lambing President Methven A&P Association B K theaders, and tailing, driving grain trucks, while more than half of this year’s
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If you’re on your way past the Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week, keep an ear out for the hard-working vocal chords of 149 Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School (MCSSS) students. The group launched into a week of practice yesterday before they bring a musical theatre production to the stage on Friday and Saturday. It’s the biggest production yet for the MCSSS, which has been operating each January for 18 years and is musically helmed by Ashburton singing tutor Jo Castelow. “We now have people from all over, from as far as Timaru and Christchurch, and each time brings a new mix of voices,” said Castelow. Some singers have been involved in the week-long course for more than 10 years, she said,
junior group are newcomers. The group range in age from 9 to 21 years and includes members of NAZDA and first-year university students. This year’s production is themed Time Travellers and will cover musical theatre and tunes from across the ages – from My Fair Lady and Bing Crosby to recent hits like Hamilton and Moana, along with everything in between, Castelow said. “Among the juniors everyone knows the songs from Moana, but they find that they love singing the older ones just as much,” she said. And not only does the theme provide something for everyone in the audience, she said, but gives the young singers the opportunity to learn about various musicals. The group received their music a month ago, and auditioned for solo positions on Sunday. They are currently undergoing two days of musical
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A number of older buildings around the Ashburton District will shortly be sporting signs that spell out how they rank against new building standards. As part of the on-going drive to ensure all buildings will be earthquake safe, the Ashburton District Council will be sending signs to owners of buildings built prior to 1976 and will be asking them to display those signs prominently on the outside of their property. The public notification is part of the council’s drive to ensure every older building has been inspected by engineers and that where required, strengthen-
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ing work is either carried out or planned in the future. It’s been a long process getting to this point, council building services manager Michael Wong said, but the placard templates had now arrived and these would be sent to property owners over the next month. The placards would serve a two fold purpose – making the public aware of a building’s compliance level and encouraging owners to carry out necessary strengthening work. Wong anticipates there will be about 150 sent out in February to owners of non-compliant buildings. “These are the building’s we’ve
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Te Araroa walkers are on the rise, benefiting the summer tourism industry in Methven. Many who do the 3000-kilometre trail, which runs the length of New Zealand, end up in the ski town, as it is a natural resting point near the uncrossable Rakaia River. Methven i-SITE consultant Lyndsay Agnew said December to February was peak season for trail walkers, and she was assisting about half a dozen per week. “Most of them are doing the whole trail or the whole South Island, depending on how much time they have got,” she said. “They are really interesting people, you have to be a certain breed to want to go and walk 3000 kilometres.” They mostly came from Europe and North America, and walked north to south, hitch-hiking into Methven from above Lake Coleridge. They generally stayed in the campground or backpacker lodges in Methven. “It’s nice to have them here and they spread the word when they go back,” she said. Walkers rejoin the trail on Blackford Road in the Rakaia Gorge, and Methven Travel provides transport on the “empty” section of its school bus run, and operates an on-demand shuttle service in school holidays. The Te Araroa section through Mid Canterbury goes from here to the Hakatere Heron Road, taking a public access easement over Glenariffe Station, then crossing the 60,000-hectare Hakatere Conservation Park. Among those undertaking Te Araroa is American Clayton Beckett. His trail name is Chef, he has a travel blog at chefspecial5.com and is from Connecticut. The 26-year-old is walking the South Island section, south to north, and was in Methven at the weekend. He said he ended up staying two nights instead of one at Snow Denn Lodge because he needed the rest, and the fact it of-
We’ve got something for the whole family: • MulletMan performing • Sheep Shearing • Boru entertaining • Gift Lamb & Calf Auction • Animals galore in the Animal Shed Honesty • Wine and food festival boxes • Side shows targeted • Sheep colouring-in competition
Getting pitch THE perfect for their production later this week are Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School students (from left): Lucy Clough, EJ Stockman, Emily-Jane Farr and Annah Casey-Solly.
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practice, before director Alice Sollis steps in to help with the actions from Wednesday onwards.
already assessed. Then we’ll do another desk top review and pick up the ones we may have missed and we’ll work with them,” he said. DO W N L O Athat D Buildings have not been assessed will be given the lowest rating until an assessment is done, Wong said. There had been a proposal to change the rules so the cut-off date for engineering assessment would have moved forward to cover all buildings built before 2004 and that would have seen hundreds of buildings around the district bearing stickers, he said. The consultation process ensured there was no date change
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and that dramatically reduced the number of buildings coming into the net locally. If a building is required to have a placard displayed it will contain information on the percentage it complies with building standards and the year with which it will need to be strengthened to come up to code, Wong said. Older buildings that have been assessed and found to be up to strength or that have already been strengthened will not need to display placards. Details on the placard-bearing buildings will be held on a public register with the Ministry of Building and this is accessible to anyone.
noon and Saturday night at the Event Centre, with tickets now available from Ticket Direct.
From P1 Near Methven, Lucy Raisbeck’s free range egg stall was also burgled on Sunday night. While taking out the bins yesterday morning, she said she noticed that the security camera had been taken and the padlock had been cut off from her honesty box. All money had been cleared from the box before the theft, but Raisbeck said she was still gutted to discover the break-in, which she presumes is the work of people “who don’t care about other people”. However, with new security methods for Raisbeck and an ultra-secure honesty box for Billie, both stalls are continuing to operate.
After a couple of days rest in Methven, the Te Araroa trail beckons once aga
fered a Hikers’ Special made it all the more attractive. “My feet were pretty banged up, so I decided to hang out for just one more day,” Beckett said. He flew into Auckland in midDecember, and had his cellphone stolen in his first two days. He flew to Queenstown and shuttled to the southern end of Te Araroa at Bluff, and walked 555 kilometres north to Twizel over the next fortnight, staying in high country huts and his tent. With last week’s storm system forecast he decided to skip the next section and he
hitchhiked to Methven, and left at the weekend aiming to hitch to north of Lake Coleridge to resume the trail. Beckett said the trail to date had had many river crossings, and some mountainous terrain, as well as farm tracks and dirt roads. Besides the road walks, which he did not like as they lacked the wilderness appeal of true trail walking, and a lack of markers in some areas, he was enjoying the scenery and meeting lots of people. Of the few fellow hikers he had met, most were walking north to
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EQUESTRIAN TIMETABLE 1:30 Sheep Colouring Competition, followed by sheep counting, at the animal shed
MAIN RING
9:30 Lead Rein judging
8:00 Saddle Hack judging
11:15 Stock Horse judging
8:15 Riding Horse judging
11:15 Clydesdale judging
1:50 Official speeches
8:15 Saddle Hunter judging
PONY RING A SECTION
10:00 Children’s Pet Classes begin Highland Dancing commences Dairy Goat judging commences Poultry judging commences Farm Produce judging commences Home Industries judging commences
2:00 Grand Parade begins with the Ashburton Pipe Band Lolly Scramble
8:15 Park Hacks 11:00 Working Hunter judging
10:15 NZ Riding Pony Society Class judging
11:00 Round the Ring Hunters
10:30 Saddle Pony Champion Rider
2:30-4:30 Wayne Pannett, Matt Gorman & Greta Casey Solley playing in the Wine & Food Area
NORTHERN RING 8:00 In Hand Pony judging
10:45 Saddle Pony Champion Paced & Mannered
8:00 In Hand Horse judging
11:00 Supreme Champion Pony
9:30 Saddle Cobs judging
PONY RING D SECTION
10:30 Wine and Food area opens Shearing commences Wood Chopping commences
2:30 Ride and Rev, bottom end of the main ring Gift Lamb Auction
9:30 In Hand Welsh Pony judging
10:20 Champion Rider
11:15 Working Hunter Ponies
10:30 Champion Paced & Mannered
11:00 Top Team Competitions – Senior & Junior, Heats & Finals
3:00 Gift Calf Auction Tug of War Competition, following Ride and Rev
10:45 Supreme Champion Saddle Horse judging
8:00 Equestrian events commence 8:30 Sheep Dog Trials commence 9:30 Sheep judging commences
12:00-2:00 Boru, playing in the Wine & Food Area 12:00 Sheep – Champion of Champions Pavilion opens Mulletman performing near the Wine & Food Area
4:00 Sustainable Water Sheaf Tossing, public bar Pavilion closes 4:30 Steer Riding Competition Methven A&P Quiz closes 5:00 Wood Chopping Prizegiving
Round the Ring Pony Hunters
PONY RING 8:00 Group A Pony judging 8:00 Group D Saddle Hunter Pony judging 8:00 Group B&C Combined Pony judging 8:00 First Ridden Combination Pony judging 8:10 Pony Unity judging
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