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Butterfly path earns Pride of NZ nomination Andrew Board When Rebekah Malthus lost her 14 month old baby just three days before Christmas 2012, she wasn’t sure how to cope with the loss – it turns out it was by helping others. In the wave of her son MacAuley’s death to a freak accident, Rebekah and her partner Adam Hicks had a group of Nelson crafts people and parents come forward wanting to make a tribute to baby Mac. Rebekah decided to make it for everyone who had lost a child in Nelson. Two and a half years on, the result is Project Butterfly. The project has built a path in Fairfield Park where parents who have lost a child can design a butterfly mosaic memorial to their child and have it put in the path. Rebekah has also organised art therapy workshops to help families, sent people on respite weekends, organised food runs and started online chat groups so parents have a place to talk to each other. “In a nut shell, Project Butterfly aims to support families through the death of a child. Families often stop going to counselling sessions as they can’t afford it and there is no memorial in town to all the children who have been lost.” Rebekah has been nominated in the community spirit section of the Pride of New Zealand awards for her work with Project Butterfly. She says she was humbled by the nomination.
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Rebekah Malthus with her two children Geanie, 11 months, and Tasman, 6, at the Butterfly Path at Fairfield Park. Photo: Andrew Board.
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Brook fence caused slip, says report A report obtained by the Nelson Weekly shows that the slip that closed the historic Dun Mountain Walkway earlier this year was caused by construction of a track for the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary’s predator fence and that options for repairing the damage could cost more than $110,000. The report by Nelson Consulting Engineers also shows that the Sanctuary Trust, Nelson City Council and contractors, ignored geotechnical advice by cutting the track too close to the Dun Mountain Walkway, increasing the risk of a slip. They may also have breached the conditions of the resource consent by changing the alignment of the track specified in plans to “inside the preferred 50m minimum separation to the walkway”. However, the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary Trust and Nelson City Council would not com-
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ment on the report which was sent to them on April 28. The trust’s general manager Hudson Dodd says he can’t comment on the report until they have completed the insurance process for the damage to the track and walkway. The council’s only response was “we are still working through the issues with the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary Trust, to effect a permanent fix”. The report also provides six options for repairing the damage caused by the 35m long slip, that wiped out a 20m section of the historic, 150-year-old Dun Mountain Walkway and carried debris downhill onto the fence track. The walkway was closed following the slip and was only reopened after a temporary repair
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