YOUTH WEEK IN SELWYN

Mon 15th May - Sun 21st May

Selwyn District Council does a lot for our youth by providing facilities like the bike park, pump track, basketball half courts and skateboard park. Another SDC initiative is Youth Week BBQs around Selwyn to celebrate our young people and give them an opportunity to gather and meet. Sadly there is no BBQ event in Prebbleton this year so Prebbleton based youth will need to travel to other townships as listed (above right.)

Perhaps an Event during Youth Week next year is something we could aim for.

Selwyn District Council has a Youth Council for 12 -24 year old youth and encourages youth to apply online from their webpage. https://www.selwyn.govt.nz/community/youthcouncil/application-form

Our Prebbleton Community Association also encourages youth to become involved in planning for Prebbleton’s future.

Youth can be involved by sending ideas by email to prebbletoncommunityassn@gmail.com

Youth Week Barbeques:

Monday 15 May, 3.30 - 4.30pm

Leeston Library

Wednesday 17 May, 3.30 - 4.30pm

Lincoln Library

Friday 19 May 3.30 - 4.30pm

Darfield Library

Sunday 21 May 10 - 11am

Selwyn Sports Centre

Sunday 21 May 12.30 - 2pm

Rolleston Reserve Skate Park

Become a Youth Council representative

Locals Profile: Jenny and Greg Tod

Jenny and Greg Tod purchased land in Prebbleton in 1995, it was a simple horse paddock and later a house was built on the site. After living here for the past 28 years, Greg says it just seems right living in this area. His ancestors were the first people to settle in Lincoln years before Lincoln was a town. His great great grandmother travelled to Prebbleton on horseback to take some of the first church services in Prebbleton in the 1860’s.

Jenny considers one of the best things that has occurred in Prebbleton lately is that it now has a dog park. After having a dog for 15 years it’s great to see dogs having somewhere safe to have some fun.

Jenny and Greg have operated Parva Plants in Prebbleton for 16 years having purchased the business and relocated it from Tauranga. The business has provided perennials, bulbs and shrubs to NZ gardeners since 1968 and would have been one of the first of its kind in the country. It was a natural progression for them being a mail order/online plant nursery after growing cut flowers and owning a landscape design business.

To watch out for in May

The church grounds are a haven for wildlife; fantails and also for monarch butterflies who are starting to congregate in the Oak and Ash Trees on the All Saints Cemetery boundary. They will then move to the Macracarpa Tree behind the Cottage and to other overwintering places.They are easier to spot on a sunny afternoon when they open their wings and fly about looking for nectar.

PREBBLETON LIFE -4