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Patrick Hill and Liz Turner of Christchurch pose for a photograph with one of several Britten motorcycles on display at the recent BEARS motorcycle club’s Sound of Thunder meeting at Selwyn’s Ruapuna Raceway. The meeting marked 20 years since the passing of club member John Britten who designed and built the iconic Britten motorcycles several of which went on to have international success on the race track. As well as a display of the Britten bikes the Britten Motorcycle Company provided a comprehensive collection of memorabilia from the Britten Motorcycle project and various other design ventures and innovative ideas John Britten undertook. Photo by Dean Graham
Clay works feature in exhibition Methven clay artist Deanna Griffiths and Little River printmaker Joshua Bashford will be featured …
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Council to review broadband coverage by Kent Caddick
The Selwyn District Council is to conduct a review of broadband and cell phone coverage across the district.
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The move comes after growing complaints from Selwyn residents living in broadband and cell phone black spots or with limited coverage. Council CEO David Ward said while it is not the council’s role to provide broadband or cell phone infrastructure council is about building better communities and communication is part of this.
“There are three other councils in the South Island which are carrying out similar reviews and once we have collated the information it may lead us to make a submission to central Government. “It is going to be a conversation with a community and we want to hear from individuals and businesses as well as health and education providers who may
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Selwyn Libraries Summer Reading Challenge overall winner, three-year-old Clara Graham, right and her brother Jono (5), pose for a photo after Clara picked up her winner’s prize. The Summer challenge encouraged children to get out and about enjoying summer while they explored what Selwyn has to offer. It involved children completing eight tasks around the district. These included having their photo taken while reading a book to their pet, making a reading tent out of sheets, drawing pictures and visiting Selwyn libraries and landmarks. They either drew a picture or took a photograph of their completed activities and showed these to Library staff. Five winners were drawn at random from
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Campaign targets intersection fatalities by Kent Caddick
The Selwyn District Council and Police have launched a road safety campaign aimed at improving driver behaviour around intersections.
Police will be targeting driver behaviour at intersections this month
The campaign follows a number of recent fatal accidents around intersections in the district including one in which a 54-year-old Leeston woman was killed after a 26-yearold German tourist allegedly failed to stop at the intersection of Goulds and Leeston roads. According to council’s road safety coordinator Ngaire Tinning almost 40% of all crashes in Selwyn happen at intersections. Between 2010 and 2014, there were 486 crashes at intersections resulting in 7 deaths and 73 serious injuries. “Poor observation, with motorists not seeing other vehicles, or poor judgement, particularly failing to assess whether there is a safe gap before merging into the traffic flow, are common causes of crashes at intersections,” Mrs Tinning said. A survey of 125 cars undertaken at seven busy Selwyn intersections in 2014 showed that 32% of cars approaching these intersections failed to come to a complete stop at intersections, with many of these vehicles slowing down but not actually stopping. “It is very important that people stop and take the time to check it is safe
to proceed before travelling through an intersection,” Mrs Tinning said. “Many accidents are caused by drivers not taking the time to carefully check for traffic and not properly assessing how quickly other vehicles are moving. Coming to a complete stop allows drivers enough time to do both these things.” Drivers are also being encouraged to slow down and be ready to brake when other vehicles are waiting at connecting intersections. “Unfortunately there are many drivers on our roads who don’t take enough care at intersections. If you are travelling an open road speed and see a car at an intersection ahead it is advisable to slow down in case they decide to turn or cross the road,” Mrs Tinning said. The joint road safety campaign between the council and the New Zealand Police will run throughout March and April. Selwyn police will be monitoring intersections and will be issuing tickets to motorists who fail to stop at intersections. The council is also planning to carry out further surveys of motorist behaviour at intersections.
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Clay works feature in exhibition Methven clay artist Deanna Griffiths and Little River printmaker Joshua Bashford will be the featured artists in the latest Malvern Community Arts Council exhibition. The exhibition, which will be held in the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield, opens on Friday, March 6 and runs through until April. “These are artists to watch, so it is a great opportunity to view their work early in their career and perhaps even buy something to treasure,” MCAC arts coordinator Ingrid Cole said. For Ms Griffiths, who has been working with clay for nine years, this is Little River printmaker Joshua Bashford is one of the feature artists in the latest exhibition at the her first exhibition at the Selwyn Gallery Selwyn Gallery. Ms Cole said Deanna’s travels around single monoprint on canvas of these Europe have perhaps influenced the very complex works. The Selwyn Gallery will be open classic, realistic style she likes to work in. “All the work is hand built mainly daily, except Mondays, from 10am to 4pm for the duration of this using the coiling technique.” Ms Cole said much of Joshua’s work exhibition. An exhibition programme employs printmaking techniques, such is available on the gallery’s website as woodcuts, sometimes on a very large www.selwyngallery.co.nz or from scale, and often he produces just a the gallery.
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Council to review broadband coverage “We need to ensure the district is a place where companies can feel confident they can do business in as well as ensuring residents are informed of availability and connectivity issues,” Mr Ward said. One of those residents who is struggling with connectivity is David Miller from Broadfield who runs his taxi business from home. “Despite the phone companies telling us we should have broadband we don’t. “I have signed up with a number of those companies and despite their assurances we find we can only get dial-up which is virtually impossible to use and some of computers won’t even take dial-up.” Mr Miller said as well as Broadfield resident David Miller is frustrated at the lack of high speed broadband in his area struggling to run his business it is his children are also suffering. nearby who are also dealing with the “The two youngest are at high school same issue. but they are unable to do research of “Some have paid out for satellite complete online homework assignments broadband but this can be very because dial-up won’t let them.” expensive including the cost of getting He said the high school had been the aerial or dish on the roof as well as helpful in assisting with providing hard the running costs.” copy of assignments but this wasn’t a Mr Ward said the broadband and cell phone coverage review will start this long term solution. Mr Miller lives on Robinsons Road and week and they hope to complete the said there were around 20 households review by the end of May.
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Rural fire fighters Dog reward posted recognised for their service
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by Kent Caddick
A Kirwee family is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of their much loved pet dog which went missing two weeks ago.
by Kent Caddick
Four long-serving Selwyn rural fire fighters were among those recognised for their service at the recent Forest and Rural Fires Association of New Zealand awards night in Rolleston. Bob Peard, the Deputy Principal Rural Fire Officer of the Selwyn District Council Rural Fire Authority, Bruce Simpson of the Lake Coleridge Volunteer Rural Fire Force and West Melton Volunteer Rural Fire Force members John Doherty and Derrick Elliot all received their long service medals awarded for 14 years of service. On the citation for Mr West Melton fire force controller John Doherty, right, received his long service medal from Selwyn Mayor Kelvin Coe who also Peard’s award it was noted presented flowers to John’s wife Helen that the presentation of the medal was in recognition of not only Derrick Elliot was the longest serving his long service but also ‘his dedication of the medal winners having joined and unfailing support to the council’s the West Melton unit in 1992 and his citation read that Derrick ‘has been like rural fire authority’. Bruce Simpson, the Lake Coleridge many other volunteers, always there Volunteer Rural Fire Force’s controller when required and like others has was instrumental in setting up the carried out his rural fire role without Lake Coleridge unit as the committee seeking thanks or recognition’. Others to be recognised for three chairman which lead to the unit being or more years’ service were: Nigel registered in December 1994. John Doherty, who is also a police Birse, Kelvin Green, Chris Mehrtens, inspector, joined the West Melton unit Chris Caldwell, Richard Coombes, John in 1999 and in December 2010 took Hinchliff, Steve Hirsch, Brian Saywood over the role of Fire Force Controller on (all West Melton); Janet Derham, Blair the retirement of Bob King, who was Evan, Neil Fraser, Kerry Munro (Lake also honoured at the awards night with Coleridge); Douglas Marshall, Mark a second bar being added to his 25 year Strowger, Lindsay Snow (Selwyn Rural Fire Authority). Gold Star.
The Mills family are concerned their pedigree female Staffordshire bull terrier Ruby may have been taken for use in dog fighting. Kate Mills said it appears Ruby may have escaped from their fenced property near Kirwee School rather than being taken from their home. “She has escaped a couple of times before but KIrwee is such a small community someone usually notices or she has wandered down to the school where our youngest daughter goes. “She is micro-chipped and Kendra Mills with the family dog Ruby who has gone missing carries a tag with our names and phone number but we haven’t reported missing are either found and heard a thing so we are starting to returned to their owners or the owners find them themselves. fear the worst.” “My advice to owners to ensure Despite speculation on Selwyn social media community pages dogs don’t wander or go missing is Selwyn District Council’s senior to lock gates where the dog is kept animal control officer Steve Clarke and to ensure the dog is registered doesn’t think dog thieves are at work and microchipped.” Meanwhile, if anyone sees the in the district. “We don’t believe there is an issue Mills’ missing dog Ruby, who is brindle with dogs being taken for fighting and in colour with a white patch in the have no increased reports of dogs shape of the South Island on her chest, missing. Our records would indicate they can contact Kate Mills on 021 that most of the dogs that are 354 229.
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With summer coming to an end and Autumn fast approaching householders thoughts are starting to turn to replacing the warmth of the sun with artificial heat. With the assistance of Consumer NZ we look at some of the electrical heating options there are for taking the chill out of those chilly winter months. If you can afford the initial outlay, don’t use plug-in electric heaters as your main source of heat. Over time, it will be more expensive than other options such as a heat pump, a flued gas heater or a woodburner. If you don’t need a heater at the beginning of winter, wait, as they are often sold on special from around the middle of the year. If you’re buying a fan heater or a convection heater with a fan, listen to it in the shop as some are surprisingly noisy. The purchase price of each type of electric heater varies enormously, depending on brand, size, time of year and other factors. But all plug-in heaters are expensive to operate compared with heat pumps or woodburners. Electricity for plug-in heaters costs from 23 to 31 cents per kWh depending on your power supplier and tariff plan. Which type where Lounge or family room areas need background warmth. Heat pumps are the best long-term choice, but panel and other convection heaters are also suitable. You might also want some
specific spot heating, say if you’re watching TV or standing at the kitchen sink. A portable fan or radiant heater will do the job. Bedrooms require less heat than living areas as you only need to keep the chill off. Choose from a panel or oil-filled column heater with thermostat and maybe a timer. A night-store heater in the passage is also an option. Service or workshop areas are best heated by portable fan or radiant heaters. Look for the following key heater features • Thermostats help maintain an even temperature and conserve electricity. • Timers allow you to turn a heater on to warm up the kitchen before you get up, or to turn a heater off after you have gone to bed. • Fans help warm up a room faster and distribute the air more evenly, by preventing heat build-up near the ceiling. Guide to choosing the rightsized heater Allow about 44 watts per cubic metre of room volume. Add another 10 per cent for a large window area and another 10 to 20 per cent for partial or no insulation.
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If it’s a lounge, multiply by 1.5. If it’s a bedroom, make it 1.2, and for other areas multiply by 0.8. Types of heaters to choose from: Convection heaters These are designed to provide background warmth. They warm the air near the element or body of the heater. The warm air circulates by natural convection around the room. Many have a fan, which provides faster warm-up and more even heating. The most popular type of convection heater is the upright oil-filled column heater. Less popular, but cheaper, is the box type with a heating element in the bottom and a grille at the top to let the warm air out. Portable fan heaters Fan heaters squat on the The oil-filled column heater is a popular form of floor and provide a blast of convection heating warm air directly onto your body. They’re not as good as convection Heat pumps are expensive to buy heaters for providing general background (from $2,750 upwards installed) but warmth, as the fan can be noisy and very cheap to run. As with any heating, cause draughts. however, the costs mount up if you leave Radiant heaters them on all the time over winter. These have glowing electric elements Panel heaters with reflectors to radiate heat directly Panel heaters are convection heaters onto you. They provide quick directional that mount permanently on a wall and heat to a small area of a room and also are designed to provide background heat. They are permanently wired and provide some convection heat. usually use electricity at the normal Heat pumps Heat pumps collect heat from the daytime rate. air outside the house and release it Night-storage heaters inside. Although they run on electricity Night-storage heaters are also they collect far more energy than they permanently installed convection use, up to three times as much. The heaters, but they use off-peak night-rate colder it is outside the less efficient electricity. They store the heat for slow release during the day. they are. Information for this article was supplied by Consumer NZ. For more on heating and other consumer issues go to consumer.org.nz.
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Insulating windows for a comfortable environment Article supplied by www.consumer.co.nz
Better window insulation can make your home comfier all year round and there are a variety of ways to achieve this. Touch a windowpane on a cold day and it’ll feel cold. It’s likely to be as cold as the outside air. When the warm (inside) air hits the windowpane, it cools and the heat escapes outside. There are two ways of dealing with this: using curtains to keep the warm inside air away from the windows or improving the heat loss from the windows through some form of double-glazing. For new homes the building code now lays down minimum requirements for new windows — that’s almost certain to mean double-glazing. In existing houses make sure you’ve blocked draughts — and that you’ve insulated your ceilings, under the floor, and maybe the walls too. Once you’ve done this, the windows will be the cause of most heat-loss in winter and gain in summer. How much is lost (or gained) depends on where you live, the type of windows you have, how big they are, and the direction they face. Fitting double-glazed or secondaryglazed windows is likely to improve winter and summer comfort and also reduce noise. It may also add to the house’s resale value. But it’ll take many years to pay for itself through reduced heating (or cooling) bills. New double-glazed windows are effective. But research has shown that secondary-glazing of existing windows can be just as effective and cheaper —
sometimes a lot cheaper. But before you look at glazing options, you should get your curtains working as well as possible. A good set of curtains can be as effective as double-glazing at reducing heat loss from windows. But if the curtain is open it’s not doing anything — a layer of air must be trapped between the window and curtain. What’s more, curtains with a gap at the top and the bottom can form a ‘reverse chimney’. That’s when the cooled air from near the window falls out the bottom of the curtains and is replaced at the top by warm air from inside. This could be worse than having no curtain. Although they’re no longer fashionable, pelmets help seal curtain tops. Sealing at the bottom can be improved by curtains that fall on to the window sills or touch the floor. Thermal curtains have a plasticised coating on the reverse of the cloth. The coating helps stop air passing through the cloth — but that’s not the major cause of heat loss with curtains. The fitting of the curtains matters much more than the cloth. Glazing options • Secondary-glazing creates an airgap by inserting a second pane of glass or other clear sheet behind an existing windowpane. • Double-glazing has two panes
Double glazing and curtains will help to keep a home warm and dry
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wellness — by all means make the most of this resource. A counsellor or psychologist may help resolve issues or teach cognitive behavioural therapy techniques. I specialise in helping you adjust your particular patterns of thinking; the strategies you use that result in how your thoughts connect from one to the next. Neuro-Linguistic Programming has developed easy techniques that in just a few sessions allow us to ‘defragment’ our mental systems, re-ordering, refining and adjusting how we think so that it works better, feels better and allows us to return to ourselves.
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Oven roasted Summer fruit cakes by Lauren Carmichael, chef at Langdale Vineyard restaurant
One of my favourite things of summer is the flavourful stone fruit, especially towards the end as juicy black fleshed plums appear. I love to make these cakes with Black Doris or Omega plums but they are equally good with other fruit and can be made all year round. Lovely with coffee as is or serve warm for a delicious
dessert with ice cream or custard. My best baking tip is to always read your recipe well before you start, understand all steps and prepare ingredients before you start… it makes all the difference.
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Oven roasted summer fruit cakes
Ingredients: 100g butter (softened) ²⁄³ cup brown sugar ½ cup white sugar 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon orange zest ½ teaspoon vanilla essence 1 cup plain flour ¾ teaspoon baking soda ¼ cup plain yoghurt 4 large ripe plums, halved and stoned Method: Set oven to 180°C and grease 8 large muffin tins or similar size tins or muffin/cupcake cases. Cream butter, white sugar and 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar until
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Lauren Carmichael is owner and chef at Langdale Vineyard restaurant near West Melton. She says she grew up on a farm on the ‘other side’ of the river near Oxford and baking days with her grandmother was a highlight of her childhood years, setting her on the course for a future in hospitality. She says a 17-year OE with many years spent in Israel has influenced her culinary style.
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light and fluffy. Set the remaining brown sugar aside. Add eggs one at a time, add zest and vanilla. Sift flour and baking soda and add to butter mixture with the yoghurt, do not over-mix at this stage. Place approximately 2 tablespoons batter into muffin tins and place plum halves on top and then sprinkle remaining brown sugar evenly over the top. Bake in preheated oven until a skewer comes out clean. Rest 10 minutes before removing from tins and then enjoy.
Darfield Wine Club Invite you to the next tasting on Tuesday 9th March @ 8pm in the Darfield Bowling Club Rooms, Clinton Street. The April 13th tasting will be wines from Sherwood Estate. Come and enjoy some good wines in relaxed surroundings. For platter catering please RSVP to Di Woodward on 03 318 8039 (evenings) by Friday 6th March.
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The fresher the fruit, the crunchier, sweeter and more nutritious it is. The best way to eat an apple is straight from the tree. Autumn is harvest time and it’s also the very best time to plant a new apple tree. Our gardens are getting smaller but that hasn’t stopped homeowners investing in fruit trees. Nurseries report that fruit tree sales have never been better as more and more of us opt for growing our own. It helps that we have the best ever choice of compact easy-care varieties than ever before, but we’re also relearning some space saving techniques that have been around for centuries. Just like the essential lemon tree, apples deserve a place in every backyard. One little apple tree gives huge bang for your buck. Growing apples is easier than most people think. Once your tree is planted in the right spot and gets off to a healthy start, there is little else you need to do to enjoy your own fresh apples, year after year after year. Choose the right spot Plant your apple tree where it gets as much sun as possible and in good well-drained soil. Avoid areas where the
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that it gets plenty of sunlight penetrating the branches, maximising fruiting. Once your tree reaches the desired shape, especially if you plant a dwarf tree, pruning isn’t strictly necessary every year. But if branches become diseased, damaged or overcrowded, a little pruning will help to keep it healthy. Remove branches that grow towards the inside of the tree. In the first year after planting, it’s a good idea to remove the fruit as this redirects energy into growth and helps the tree quickly develop a strong root system.
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