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but will it become reality? riverside vision: Avon Otakaro Network co-chair Evan Smith, Stormwater to Wetlands project advocate Ann Kennedy, River of Life Project coordinator Mark Gibson and the Avon River Users Group’s Bruce Johnston all have ideas for the future of the Avon River red zone. Photo: Samantha Early

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cafes, a comprehensive cycle network, community gardens, urban forests, and sanctuaries for engendered wildlife. AvON member Ann Kennedy presented an idea for transforming parts of the area into wetlands, for storm-water to go through before it entered the river, which would filter out sediment and contaminants. “It’s just a question of cutting off the pipe,” she said. Bruce Johnston of the Avon River Users Group is promoting a flat-water sports facility adjoining the river, 2.2 kilometres long to enable it to host international rowing as the river had currently reached its capacity for such sports and it was posing safety issues. The diversity of the ideas was a strength, Mr Smith said. “There’s very little conflict between the different projects because they all dovetail so nicely together.” A spokesman for Minister Brownlee said Cera was interested in what the community had to say, but there was still work to be done on the best options for the future use of the land and

WHAT does the future hold for the red zoned land along the Avon River? The deadline is looming for most red-zoned residents to accept the Crown’s offer on their properties by March 31. On Saturday, 26 groups presented their ideas for the land at the Avon River residential red zone projects forum. Last May a petition from more than 18,000 people calling for the land to become a park was presented to Parliament. But the one who will decide its future, Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee, remains non-committal. Avon Otakaro Network (AvON) co-chair Evan Smith said the ideas presented at Saturday’s forum would reinvent the red zone from a residential area to a river park and ecological reserve – most were permanent projects, not temporary measures. But they couldn’t do much without the go-ahead from the Government. The ideas include a riverside heritage garden park, boatshed

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they were not going to put a deadline on that. “The Crown will recover some costs from insurers following the purchase of the residential red zone properties, but decisions on the future use for this land and whether the Crown will gain from these are yet to be made,” the spokesman said. Mr Smith said they understood the Government had good reasons not to make long-term decisions right now, and while some in the community were ready to move on and use the land in new ways, others were still working out where their futures lay. He said for most of the projects to come to fruition, the land would need to be gifted to the people of Christchurch. “It’s not much use for much else. That’s the feeling of most of the communities.” However, Mr Smith said that would not necessarily come ata cost to the Government as returns could still be made from the land.

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Would you buy shares in Mighty River Power?”

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Students share earthquake bond

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School on Monday. Mayu Abe, speaking through a translator, said she was really surprised by the big tsunami. “Lots of buildings had damage or demolished but [the town] is coming back,” Mayu said. The Japanese students were presented with a cheque for about $1000 to take back to their school. The money was raised by Halswell School. “It’s really cool to relate to someone who has been through a similar disaster,” Halswell student Abbey Meiritz-Reid said. The exchange was organised by Christchurch Educated, an initiative set up last year to help the city’s international education sector, which was badly affected by the February 2011 earthquake. A group of Canterbury education professionals, representing 23 schools

THEY may be from different schools, countries and cultures but they have something in common – they have all experienced a natural disaster and their home towns are rebuilding. A group of 17 students from the Japanese coastal town of Kamaishi, which was devastated in the March 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, visited five Christchurch schools earlier this week to share their experiences and learn about New Zealand culture. Families of pupils from Halswell School, Kaiapoi High School, Cobham Intermediate, Christchurch Girls’ High School and Chisnallwood Intermediate hosted the visiting students, aged 13 and 14. The students visited local attractions and Christchurch schools, participating in activities like rugby, robotics, clay carving and weaving. Three of the students visited Halswell

and universities, visited Japan in May last year, which resulted in a series of Skype exchanges between Kaiapoi High School students and Kamaishi students. As a result, the group of Japanese students was selected to visit New Zealand and compare their response to disaster with Canterbury students impacted by the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. Christchurch Educated representative Gus Fahy said international education was about sharing cultures. “It’s not just about the learning, it’s the culture, it’s the language, it’s everything and to have them come out here and see what goes on in Christchurch and New Zealand, you can’t beat it,” Mr Fahy said. Sharing experience: From left, Japanese students Koichi Oshinoda, Akari Maekawa and Mayu Abe are presented with a gift by Halswell School students Abbey Meiritz-Reid and Sarah Hunter. Photo: Marcus Gibbs

Ellerslie criticisms, fair or foul? Jo Kane jo@mainlandpress.co.nz

THE weather played its part, early bird registrations were high, the exhibits were judged and the supreme winning garden, Revolutionising Reuse, announced. The children from Raumati South School impressed the show’s visitors with their gardening knowledge and won the coveted people’s choice award. In fact all the comments seemed to be quite positive until the Saturday of the show, March 9, when The Press gardening editor Mary LovellSmith wrote a discouraging piece, in which she

called the show’s layout confusing and said the public and the plants were the losers. One of the Ellerslie judges, Rachel Vogan, has come out swinging saying the comments were “totally unacceptable” and that she was “disappointed, if that is the type of stories that is needed to be written to sell newspapers. Another aspect that upset her was that the designers now felt they hadn’t done a good job when the reality was they were judged on international criteria. “A gold medal at Ellerslie is like winning

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45,000 people who chose to attend Ellerslie is a good number when you think about our city and people’s priorities at the moment,” she said. Ms Vogan also thought with Christchurch trying to put itself back together and the fact the city was trying to get the whole country to engage with it and give tourists reasons to come here, it was very unfortunate timing [for the critical articles about Ellerslie]. Constructive criticism should be the order of the day, not sensationalism, she said.

a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show, and to pull it apart and question that, is very unprofessional. Christchurch City Council Deputy Mayor Ngaire Button said the council was very disappointed at the tack The Press took on its front page the Saturday of the show. “We are all in this together and although Ellerslie is a commercial venture, it filled a strategic gap the council had in its event programme, alongside Christmas in the Park, the Buskers Festival and Classical Sparks. The

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One-fingered salute

Tom Frewen Counter spin Shifting goal posts and corporate boxes

If Cera owns these buildings and IT’S ugly, unhelpful, adds nothing, properties get in and clean them is costly, indiscriminate, trashing up. If the Council owns them, ditto. our communities and most people Join forces and work out a way to hate it. Graffiti! get on top of this issue and remove There are people in our community this blight. with nothing to do but destroy The east has not been abandoned; any building, fence, bus shelter, people and vibrant communities telephone box and now homes with still live there. This visual pollution a spray can. is a constant reminder of just how Nothing is immune to these Jo Kane hard it is. wanting hands and it is time we took The graffiti perpetrators/taggers a serious stand. Over on the east one might have thought the are obviously skulking around at night - that in hammering they have taken was enough but itself is a security issue for those still living in idle, moronic individuals think it is okay to these areas. The graffiti on Kate Sheppard retirement vandalise anything in their path by leaving their village shows the inability to react to these tag. Their lack of respect and care and their vandals. Last weekend volunteers again pitched contempt for what has happened to this city is in to remove this scourge on the public. Why should it be left to volunteers? You a telling indictment on how they see us or their might say it’s about priorities but as the world place in society. This is vandalism, a violation of people’s looks on, as the tourists and visitors come and property and it’s spreading to a fence or building our own community moves about Christchurch, what do they see? near you soon. New buildings and plenty of plans for the There doesn’t seem to be any sort of plan or attack to impede the horrible amateurish future, but what about now, today and tomorrow extension of someone’s personality and the as the spray can continues unabated? The lasting impression is one of vandalism illegitimacy of their work. People have had to leave their homes but the occurring on a daily basis and leaves the ‘artist’ ‘new owners’ now seem unable to maintain any to savour in their ‘masterwork’ as an in-yourface one-fingered salute. sense of order in these vacant buildings/lots.

POLITICS is a team sport played in suits to the rules of musical chairs. What appears to be endless bickering in a kindergarten playground is actually an endless game of multiple halves. When the music stops, as it did in 2008 with a change of government coinciding with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), teams swap sides on their supposedly level playing field. Goal posts are swiftly moved around and players scramble for seats reduced in number and size because of cuts. Winners keep their seats, losers are left standing. The band then plays on, pumping out completely new tunes on their BYO (blowyour-own) trumpets. With so many players wearing virtually identical uniforms, general confusion is inevitable. Some are slow to adjust to their team’s change of direction. They soon wind up scoring owngoals, the only goals that are ever remembered in politics. The Solid Energy team, for example, played on well into 2012 in the belief that the goals they were aiming at were purely aspirational. They failed to notice when the aspirational goal posts were removed and totally demolished at some point in the middle of the night in 2011 to be replaced with bright red budget deficit target goals. The Solid Energy team’s coach and captain

paid dearly for this mistake by becoming the ball for a couple weeks and being kicked all over Wellington. John Palmer and Don Elder scrubbed up well for their appearance before Parliament’s commerce committee last week. You wouldn’t pick them as coal miners. Neither of them looked as if they’d been further underground than a basement car park. Definitely members of our local business class, the Koru Loungers and Corporate Boxers of New Zealand society, they represent a critical difference between sport and politics. In sport, the corporate box provides luxury viewing of the action on the field. In politics, the game is only an excuse for having a corporate box. Solid Energy’s corporate box is well away from the action. Home to many of its 472 employees on annual salaries of $100,000plus, the company’s headquarters at 15 Show Place in Addington is a magnet for Audi dealers and travel agents specialising in Tuscan villa homestays. But without Solid Energy and its myriad corporate cousins up the business end of the state sector, politicians would have no chairmen, chief executives and senior management to play with in their endless corporate box games.

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Tom Frewen's career as a journalist began at the Otago Daily Times and Radio Otago. After an overseas experience at the BBC he came back to be editor of the Gulf News on Waiheke Island. Moving to Wellington, he started the Mediawatch and Today in Parliament

programmes on National Radio, and has reported Parliament for the past 19 years. The author of a variety of columns, going back to his student days at Otago University, he can safely claim to have spent almost all his life writing rubbish.

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The earthship has landed Architect Mike Reynolds has achieved worldwide recognition through his work pioneering sustainable housing design, highlighted in the 2007 documentary Garbage Warrior. Last week he brought his ideas and experience to Christchurch. Tom Doudney caught up with him before he left.

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Biotecture: One of Reynolds’ finished earthships in New Mexico. Inset: Mike Reynolds.

THOSE who have seen Garbage Warrior will remember Mike Reynolds as the charismatic, driven, motorbike-riding, rebel that lobbied the New Mexico state government for four years until they finally passed a law allowing him to test his innovative housing designs in the desert. Reynolds’ eco-homes, or “earthships” as they are known, are built, using recycled materials such as tyres and soft drink bottles, to be entirely self-sufficient, providing for their own water, heating, electrical and sewerage needs. It’s an approach that has won him accolades, but also stiff opposition from authorities trying to make his designs conform to strict - and as he sees it, stifling - regulations. When I meet Reynolds at a Merivale café, he seems less animated than the man on film, perhaps tired after his busy week in Christchurch, but no less passionate. People are more interested than ever in housing that meets their needs as well as the planet’s, he tells me, but bureaucracy is still getting in the way. “The movie went all over the world so it did make a lot of people aware,” he says. “Another reason that people are receptive, I’d say, is that whether the movie went around the world or not, the problems are around the world and [building an earthship] is a way, for an individual person or family, of giving them a pathway to deal with these problems on their own because the officials and the corporations and the governments are not doing that great of a job of taking care of people.” Over the last few days Reynolds has delivered a series of four seminars around the city - three public and one for CPIT architecture and engineering students - on earthship design and his non-profit and disaster-relief work building homes in countries such as Guatemala, Haiti and India. After our talk, he has a meeting lined up with Christchurch City Council officials.

“We just want to show them these buildings that are made from products that are thrown away and discarded. They are quite earthquake resistant, more than most conventional methods, and they contain and treat their own sewage, so you don’t have to worry if the sewerage lines break. They make their own water, they make their own power, they heat and cool themselves, they grow food.” Reynolds says his earthships cost about the same as a well-built conventional home, but with the notable distinction of having no subsequent utility bills. However, he also believes housing around the world is too expensive and wants to bring the cost of his own designs down as well. He is encouraged by the widespread use of shipping containers in the Christchurch rebuild. “Even though it’s probably temporary it shows that [the council] are willing to step outside of convention and the box, so to speak, just to get some kind of shelter and shops and things back and it illustrates that they’re capable of moving on from tradition.” These days Reynolds tries to split his time equally between educating others and practising his craft. Although he has spent 40 years as an architect, he says he is still learning and coming up with new ideas. He is happy that the law change he achieved in New Mexico has allowed him the freedom he needs to experiment, but equally he is determined not to put so much energy into lobbying government again. “I’m thrilled with the fact that it happened, but at the same time, things need to happen faster than that.” However, Reynolds adds that authorities are standing in his way less and less these days “because they are desperate”. “Crisis is kind of an opportunity to get people’s eyes open to something else - and we think this ‘something else’ is better anyway.”

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Spot the difference: The image above shows the edible chestnut and burr (outer casing which contains the nut) on the left, while the mildly poisonous horse chestnut is on the right. The burrs shown here are dried and would appear bright green earlier in the season. Photo: National Poisons Centre

Tom Doudney tom@mainlandpress.co.nz A CHRISTCHURCH resident is suffering a guilty conscience after advising a person she met in Malvern Park, St Albans, that the chestnuts she was collecting were an edible variety when in fact they were not. Sixty-three-year-old Anne (last name not given) had been collecting the chestnuts herself last week when she met the woman, who she gave advice to on how to prepare them. The other woman then left with the chestnuts which she intended to share with her children. Later on, a colleague advised Anne that what she had been collecting were actually horse chestnuts, a mildly poisonous variety, considered unsuitable for human consumption. Anne did not have the woman’s name or contact details but as she had advised her that the nuts would need to be dried for six weeks before eating, she was hoping that the woman

might learn of the mistake before then. National Poisons Centre information officer Robin Slaughter said horse chestnuts were not too poisonous but were capable of causing symptoms such as vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhoea. “They taste a little bit bitter. I guess if people were particularly sick we would recommend being seen by the doctor but in most cases you will probably come right again.” Edible ‘sweet’ chestnuts and horse chestnuts look very similar but there are ways to tell them apart. Edible chestnuts are not as rounded in shape and are slightly pointed on the underside. The burrs which contain the nuts are easier to differentiate, with the edible chestnut burr being covered in a thick coat of spikey hairs and the horse chestnut burr having single spikes further apart.

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Variety puts smiles on children’s faces Jessica Schaap jessica.s@mainlandpress.co.nz

SCHOOLS earmarked to close were visited by the Variety Bash, a convoy of quirky pre-1976 cars, fire engines and other vehicles, last Thursday to bring more than $60,000 worth of grants to child-related organisations in Christchurch. The group of volunteers visited Central New Brighton School where children got to participate in a basketball game with representatives from There’s a Better Way Foundation (TABW). A grant of $3838 was given to the foundation which reaches out to underprivileged and troubled young people, using basketball as a vehicle to help them achieve their goals. There’s a Better Way Foundation Christchurch manager Luis Arevalo said all the kids had a great time getting into the spirit of the event.

The grant will allow them to “take the three-on-three concept onto the streets and have children from all communities active straight outside their front doors”. The Variety Bash also visited other Christchurch schools such as Burwood School. Other grants included $2356 to Ronald McDonald House to fund the replacement of duvet inners and covers, $5070 to Grandparents Raising Grandchildren for eye examinations and glasses for 30 grandchildren living with grandparents in Christchurch and Kaikoura, $2900 for a Sunshine Coach (vehicle) for Birthright Christchurch to help single mothers and babies get places, as well as transporting goods, clothing and food to the families. Variety ambassador Ewen Gilmour said he loved seeing the

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A BOAT owned by the Quail Island Ecological Restoration Trust has gone missing from Lyttelton. The Quail 1, a 5.2metre Stabicraft 525 was discovered missing at 8.30 a.m. on March 4, when it was due to take part-time employees across to Quail Island for work. The boat, pictured right has a 70hp Johnson outboard, and the Watercraft trailer registration number is K732F. It was stored on its trailer at Naval Point Yacht Club in Lyttelton Harbour. “It is presumed that both boat

and trailer were stolen in the early hours of Sunday morning - as that is when the barrier arm to the car park was broken,” trust chairman Ian McLennan said. The boat is used to transport parttime workers to the island each week, where they carry out a range of tasks including predator trapping, clearing of alien vegetation and planting of indigenous plant species on the island. The trust is appealing to the public for information and leads unnecessarily to the costs, to carry out restoration that might help with to find the work on the island, Mr McLennan said. boat as this limits its ability, or adds

WITH reference to the story ‘Walking the length of the Avon River’ on page 7 of the Mainland Press, published on Thursday, March 14, the Great Otakaro/Avon River Walk starts at the end of Blake Street, South New Brighton at 8am this Saturday and ends at Avonhead Road between 4.30pm and 5pm.

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people were no longer as active as they were pre-September 2010. Health statistics show the number of Kiwis with diabetes has almost doubled in the past 10 years. If the disease is left to manifest, it has been estimated that by 2021 nearly half a million New Zealanders will be type two diabetics, costing the country more than $1 billion a year. “If we don’t start helping to solve the problem now it’s only going to get a lot more complicated in the future,” Ms Taylor said. Latest University of Otago research found nearly one in five Kiwi adults are set to develop type-two diabetes. The research found type-two diabetes was more frequent in men than women and was higher among those suffering from obesity. Fifteen per cent of Pacific Island people were affected and 10 per cent of Maori. “Everyone thinks it won’t happen to me, so like a car accident it won’t happen to me. Unfortunately, it is. One in five is a horrific statistic and we’ve got to recognise if we don’t start looking after ourselves and managing our own health better, we can’t expect the Ministry of Health to do everything, this is all our responsibility,” Ms Taylor said. More heart and diabetes checks is one of the Government’s six national health targets and it hopes 90 per cent of those most at risk of developing the illness will be checked by next year.

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CANTERBURY musicians now have a chance to shine on the silver screen. The brainchild of Canterbury Television (CTV) presentation director Adam Robertson, music show CMusic screened for the first time on CTV last night. Mr Robertson saw a gap in the market and hoped to promote the underground and upcoming artists on a platform that was currently not available to them. “We have so many talented musicians in Canterbury that are not able to show the world what they do. Being seen and heard is what music is all about and that’s exactly how we intend to revive Christchurch’s music scene,” he said. The new show will feature New Zealand music industry news and updates, play the latest music videos and produce a local gig guide. It will also focus on interviews with local artists, playing their music video or a live performance to show what they are capable of.

“We are very excited at the opportunities this presents for any new artist whether they are a dancer, soloist, band, group, DJ or producer - if related to any facet of the music industry, any genre we are interested in promoting them. We need to be seen supporting our gifted music industry and CMusic will be a vehicle to help identify what’s happening and who’s who,” Mr Robertson, who will also produce and front the show, said. CTV has recently gone digital and is available on Freeview Channel 40 – it will continue to also be broadcast on analogue until Christchurch switches over to digital television on April 28. CMusic will be played out on CTV on a Wednesday night at 8pm with replays on Thursdays and Saturdays. It now has its own Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ CmusicNZ. Any musicians interested in appearing on CMusic can contact Adam at adam.robertson@ ctv.co.nz.

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Christine de Felice christine@mainlandpress.co.nz THE Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is presenting its March concert, Firebird, this Saturday at the Air Force Museum in Wigram. The first half of this diverse programme will feature the world premiere of The Mountain by Gao Ping, and a performance by talented New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge, who will be playing a work specially composed for him by New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell. “Stephen de Pledge is an outstanding musician,” the orchestra’s artistic director Gretchen La Roche said, “and this is a very virtuosic and physically demanding piece. “Stephen premiered it with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and has also played it with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and recorded it for Naxos.” The composition, Concerto for piano and orchestra, won the Silver Scroll Award in 2011. In the second half the full orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s Firebird. Firebird The April concert by the orchestra will be a Mozart Festival, exploring the life of the composer, and will be followed in May by a performance celebrating the life of late children’s

author Margaret Mahy. “This will feature her stories set to music by Christchurch composer Philip Norman,” Ms La Roche said. “He had worked with her a lot during her life.” The CSO is currently performing at the Wigram Air Force Museum, following the loss of its home base, the Christchurch Town Hall. “The museum offers the best acoustics available for an orchestra in the city at the moment,” Ms La Roche said. “People have been surprised and impressed with the sound. They have also been entertained by the surroundings and the sense of atmosphere. People have commented they hadn’t been to the museum before and walking through the exhibits – they’ve enjoyed that.” She said the museum people had been “wonderful”, as had the volunteers, who were “staunch supporters of the orchestra”. Tickets for CSO concerts can be purchased through the orchestra’s websites, www.cso. co.nz, www.tickets.cso.nz, or through Dash Tickets.

FINDING a recipe for a better mousetrap led Canterbury Repertory Theatre to debut a new snack with a bite but without Marmite for its performances of a classic play. Chef Richard Till provided Repertory with a recipe for the classic Kiwi mousetrap but without the missing black ingredient. Repertory president and actor John Jefferies said the production of the classic Agatha Christie whodunit lent itself to a recipe in the programme for all those who attended the scene of the crime. “We knew mousetraps should be the production’s snack food of choice so we went to the well-known chef who has connections to Repertory through his daughter. Richard provided a brilliant secret recipe and we will be passing it to audience members as a bonus. As with all things in The Mousetrap, it’s a secret and we will ask everyone to honour that.” Mr Jeffries said the theatre group had been worried that the recipe would include Marmite which, when they were planning the production, was unavailable. “It turns out that Richard Till’s recipe is his mother’s and she anticipated the Marmite shortage by many years. We’re glad Marmite is on its way back but Repertory has no plans to introduce Marmite to our tasty secret snack,” John said. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap runs April 12 to 20 at St Michael and All Angels Church.

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Christchurch has lost much of its heritage as a result of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Mainland Press is celebrating heritage we haven’t lost – ‘Our Heritage’.

FOR generations of New Zealanders, Thomas Edmonds’ name has been associated with his company’s famous cookbook and ‘sure to rise’ flour, yet the entrepreneur left almost as much of a mark on Christchurch’s built landscape as he did on the country’s kitchens. In the 1920s and 30s Edmonds and his wife Jane were responsible for funding and donating a number of significant buildings, monuments, parks and gardens which became treasured

parts of the city’s heritage. That legacy has since been diminished but not erased by the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. Many of these features were concentrated around the Avon River between Colombo Street and Fitzgerald Avenue. Here Edmonds had buildings constructed on Cambridge Terrace for the Theosophical Society and on Kilmore St for the Radiant Health Club. The latter building later became

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THE Christchurch South Community Gardens have enjoyed a bumper crop this harvest season and this weekend there will be plenty of plants, preserves and produce for the community to share in. The gardens at 188 Strickland Street are holding an Autumn Market Day this Saturday between 10am and 1pm. On sale will be pickles, homemade tomato soup and grape juice, vegetable and flower plants. Christchurch South Community Gardens Trust manager Christine Blance said it was a good opportunity for people to have a look around the gardens and meet their neighbours. “It’s about knowing that there is something you can produce from your garden all year round, although it is pretty slim pickings in Christchurch in winter,” she said. Ms Blance said they had a good harvest this year - one tonne of fresh organic produce and five tonnes of compost were made available

to the community. “It’s all about being seasonal and we are committed to contributing to a sustainable neighbourhood and a very small direct way of doing that is keeping everything local,” she said. The gardens have been in operation since 1999 and hold four seasonal market days each year, autumn, winter/Matariki, spring and summer. “The seasonal market days can show people that there is productivity in the garden all year round. Autumn is the busiest – lots of fruit crops are ready to harvest, so this means lots of pickling.” This summer’s dry weather conditions proved a challenge, but one the gardeners coped with due to forward thinking. “We have filled large water containers for hand-watering since February 2011 – only now and then would we turn on a sprinkler. Mulching between plants with

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Celebrating five decades of manufacturing in Opawa MANUFACTURER Winstone Wallboards, which has a factory in Opawa, celebrated 50 years of business in the Canterbury region last week. Winstone Wallboards Ltd is New Zealand’s largest manufacturer and marketer of gypsum plasterboard, drywall systems, associated products and services. The company has been operating since 1927 and manufactures plasterboard systems under the GIB brand name. It has facilities in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Key clients from across Canterbury were invited to help formally celebrate the milestone at a function hosted by well-known Cantabrian Gary McCormick, which included a tour of the factory to see the developments made as a response to Canterbury’s recent earthquakes. “The event went off without a hitch; it was great to be part of something so positive. Fifty years is a long time, and I hope to be part of many more years to come. Everyone had a great time,” the company’s area sales manager, Clara Sumner, said. “The tour was amazing. I never realised the

intricate processes involved in the manufacture of GIB plasterboard. It was great to see a Christchurch factory working so hard to help the city get back on its feet,” party guest Becki Lake said. Guests heard how the well-known GIB brand was supporting the Canterbury rebuild by working closely with engineers from the University of Canterbury over the past 12 months to develop improved building systems for earthquake-prone commercial buildings. “We’ve learnt a lot and our products are specifically designed to address what we’ve learnt, not only in a commercial space but also in our own homes. Our products are designed and made in Christchurch for New Zealand conditions,” Ms Sumner said. As a result of the earthquake rebuild demands, Winstone Wallboards has increased its capacity by 25 per cent at its Opawa plant, with more than 50 staff and contractors now working on the site. The company plans to continue its commitment to Canterbury, increasing manufacturing and Special celebration: Winstone Wallboards general manager David Thomas, left, Barbara Tie and guest logistics staff by a further 10 to 20 per cent over speaker Gary McCormick were among those celebrating 50 years of the business in the Canterbury the next year, subject to market demand. region at last week’s event. Photo: John Foster

Pre-quake memories fading, historian says CHRISTCHURCH people are at risk of prequake memories of the city being forgotten, a University of Canterbury (UC) historian says. UC Associate Professor Katie Pickles says many iconic city buildings have gone and more landmarks are to be demolished. “Many Christchurch landmarks have been demolished to make way for new buildings in what is becoming an exciting city. “But we have never been a demolition city before, with hard hats, high-viz, cranes, and wrecking balls. This is what Cantabrians see and hear on a daily basis. Memories of the past prequake city are fading.” Professor Pickles will speak about the lost landmarks as a key speaker at the second annual Seismics and the City forum at the Addington Events Centre in Christchurch tonight. UC’s new Quake Centre will also be launched tonight at the Westpac Hub. Professor Pickles said Christchurch people tie memories and emotions to particular places and if the places are demolished, then they are no

longer available to act as memory triggers. “These old places that were there before the quakes are not there to see any more. They will be available as images in books and galleries and they will be locked inside our heads without the triggers to escape. “We all make ‘mental maps’ in our heads made up of our life journeys around our environment. The earthquakes have short-circuited these mental maps. “Tragically, there is grief and loss of life associated with some places. I think buildings that resulted in no loss of life can also trigger a wider association with the awful events. It is our individual mental maps that add up to make history. “Different buildings and places have different memories for us but for me this is my top 10 glittering places that have vanished,” Professor Pickles said. For personal reasons the buildings Professor Pickles misses the most are: The Westpac Building, formerly the Canterbury Savings

Lost landmark: Cracroft House in Cashmere has now been demolished, so will no longer be a “memory trigger” for people who were familiar with it. Photo: Samantha Early

Bank and Trustbank Canterbury building, in Cashel Street; the Lane Walker Rudkin complex on Durham St; the Riccarton Raceway members’ grandstand; St George’s Hospital heritage building; Cracroft House in Cashmere; Christchurch Girls’ High School on Montreal Street; Cranmer Courts on Montreal St; Warner’s

Hotel in Cathedral Square; Occidental Hotel on Hereford St; the Christchurch Children’s Library on Cambridge Terrace. “These are places where my family and I worked or went to school or socialised. They conjure up for me a mixture of happiness and sadness,” Professor Pickles said.

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A HORNBY woman is commemorating 42 years of taking part in Al-Anon, a support group for family and friends of alcoholics. The woman was referred to the group by her doctor, who saw she was struggling to deal with her family members’ drinking – and says it’s the best thing she’s done. “That was his prescription to me and I am really, really grateful,” she said. Mainland Press has chosen not to name the woman, although she said she was glad to be known as an Al-Anon member.

One of Al-Anon’s 12 traditions, based on the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) model of the 12 Steps, Traditions and Concepts, is that their public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion and they need to always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films and television, and also guard with special care the anonymity of all AA members. However, we are sharing the 70-year-old’s story as she wanted to show the positive impact Al-Anon has had on her and encourage others in need to seek help.

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“It’s a very simple programme for very complicated people,” she said. The woman said sometimes family members and friends of those suffering from alcoholism could end up more mentally unwell than the alcoholics themselves, so they really needed support. She had never been a drinker herself. “I thought I was holier than thou, better. It’s easy to point the finger at the alcoholics,” she said. There are about 12 Al-Anon groups in Christchurch, based in local communities throughout the city. “We are very, very lucky to have it. I think I’m

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officials assisting him from his upside down vehicle. Although the crash forced him to withdraw from racing after the second heat that night, he was back in action on Saturday and his results that night, of ninth, second, first and tenth, were good enough to bolster Joblin’s strong results, giving them the win. Joblin also finished second in the individual championship. Photos: Brian Hopping/Mainland Photos

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his meticulously designed 367m2 home is set on the most idyllic 2431m2 property (two separate titles) within the prestigious Hampton Grange development. The home gives a stately appearance set deliberately to take advantage of the adjoining Styx Reserve. “It’s only natural, that you’d want to spend more time here…” Meticulously designed in every detail, Chris Prebble Architects have created a masterpiece of excellent proportions. Given a brief to take advantage of the most idyllic section surrounded by the Styx Nature Reserve, CPA have maximised all aspect and views. There are stunning vistas of greenery from every room on both levels of this contemporary twostorey residence. The owners had a vision to complement their unique home with ‘designer’ fittings beginning with Versace tiles, French oak floors, German imported kitchen, state-ofthe-art sound system and underground wine cellar, and has been constructed to perfection by Metzger Builders Ltd. The family room, dining and lounge/ media room all extend to sheltered outdoor recreation areas elaborately proportioned and designed, including outdoor fire. Each area absorbs aspects of the Styx Reserve. Upon entry, the quality of design and fit-out is apparent, starting with the full height void and glass balustrades. Veneer panelling disguise

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think he might have been better cast as detective Taggart - because in my opinion he does dishevelled and on the back foot far better than he does smooth and in control. The cast members do a good job with their characters but are hindered by some patchy dialogue. Broken City isn’t a bad film, but I do think it could have been a better one. I suspect the inexperience of writer Brian Tucker and director Allen Hughes (Touching Evil) show through here. At times it feels too weighed down by the burden of its genre to the detriment of its storyline - which is a shame, because with a few tweaks Broken City could have been the film it wanted to be - a classic noir.

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What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here isKate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

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Full marks to the commentator I FOR one am thrilled to have test cricket going on at the moment and a large part of the pleasure comes from the input of one television commentator. No-one could doubt the contribution Ian Smith made to the New Zealand cricket team’s efforts in the early 1980s as a player. He was totally committed to making sure that the teams he was involved in gave 100 percent every time they put the black cap on. Ian Smith brings that same dedication to his role as captain of the TV commentary team. He has obviously watched and listened and has absorbed what makes his peers the best in the business. He was a true professional at a time when cricketers weren’t. He brings that same passion and an expectation of achievement by Kiwi teams to his commentaries. Believe me, being a sports commentator in this country is one of the most difficult jobs in the land. It seems that in this country even the 50million sheep have an opinion on how a commentator should report the match. Smith

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Le Race set to challenge riders again of North Islanders and Australians entering and returning year after year to race in the event and enjoy the dramatic scenery on offer,” he said. A road bike, mountain bike or even a tandem can be used for the event. Participants can sign up as an individual or as a two- or three-person team to make the challenge more manageable. The National Schools Triathlon Championships at Pegasus is happening prior to Le Race, today and tomorrow. “The triathlon stands out for all the right reasons,” Mayor Parker said. “Fun, exercise and the coming together of children from a variety of schools nationwide. Children will enjoy pulling out swimming caps, putting on runners and pushing the pedals during this delightful, two-day sporting event.”

LE RACE is scheduled to take off at 8am this Saturday, starting in Christchurch and crossing the finishing line in Akaroa. Speed, summits and scenery combine on a course that will see cyclists tackle 100 kilometres of fast flats, challenging hill climbs and exhilarating descents as they head to the French surrounds of Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said Le Race was a must-do event for both competitive and casual cyclists. “This is a great chance for cyclists with a competitive streak to race for a course record – equally, it’s ideal for recreational riders to take in the stunning Canterbury backdrop at a leisurely pace. “Le Race’s appeal continues to extend beyond Canterbury, with an increasing number

Canberra’s kangaroos LAST week I travelled for the first time to Canberra, Australia, in order to achieve my goal of winning the Oceania time trial championships. I came back having mastered some local slang, learnt more about the history of the Australian capital, and with a winner’s grin. I’m somewhat bemused and a little weary of purpose built capital cities in the middle of nowhere. Where (my experience of) Brasilia Brazil’s answer to preventing overpopulating Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo - failed to impress, the historical reasons for Canberra essentially Sydney and Melbourne not coming to terms on who deserved the right to be the capital - intrigued. Staying with a family this trip certainly added to my experience and local knowledge. It seems Canberra, like the rest of Australasia, has also endured an unusually long and hot

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