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rom sipping hot chocolate at the Tarras Country Cafe to standing on the podium of the Tokyo Olympics, it's safe to say that Ellesse Andrews has come a long way since her time here in Wānaka.

The former MAC student claimed silver in the women’s keirin at the Izu Velodrome last Thursday, behind Shanne Braspennincx from

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Staff and students from Wānaka Primary celebrated the former pupil's success during a school assembly on Friday.

"Ellesse encapsulates all of the attributes she showed whilst she was at the school," Principal Wendy Bamford said.

"She is a positive, highly engaged learner and achiever and fully deserves the success at the Olympics."

While the 21 year old now resides in

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Cambridge, her parents Jon Anderson and mother Angela Mote-Anderson said that Wānaka is where her cycling journey began.

“Wānaka has always been a very special place for our family. I would spend almost every summer holiday there as a kid,” Jon said.

At age nine, Ellesse moved to Luggate with her parents and sister Zoe after Angela secured a job as Head of Music at Mount Aspiring College.

“As soon as we got to Wānaka we really felt at home. We love being outdoors and we’d spend

a lot of time with the kids in the mountains and enjoying outdoor adventures,” Angela said.

Ellesse attended Wānaka Primary where she joined the school netball team and developed a passion for dance.

It was actually Ellesse's love for dance that helped fuel her interest in biking.

“She had already shown a lot of promise so we made a deal with her that if she went out on her bike, she could do another dance class” Jon said.

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Hundreds have say on Board plan Lauren Prebble

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Just over 400 submissions have been made on a proposal to abolish the Wānaka Community Board.

The number has impressed board chair Barry Bruce who noted the 10-year plan tabled by the Queenstown Lakes District Council amassed just over 500 submissions.

The board is in a fight for its life in the wake of a recommendation following a Representation Review at the end of June.

The process has alienated some Board members who have complained they do not feel supported by the District Council.

In turn, their own effectiveness has been questioned.

The only person from the public to formally advocate for the retaining of the board was

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Lakeland Adventures Wānaka director Michael Donald, who spoke at the WCB July public meeting in Luggate.

The independent advisory group, set up earlier this year, looked to change the boundaries and even the representation at the council table.

Its proposal would see Wānaka with another councillor, but with the Community Board gone.

QLDC sought public submissions over a 5

week period which ended last Friday.

Two public hearings have been scheduled for submitters to address their concerns to council.

The Wānaka based hearing will be on August 26.

Most Board members have indicated that they will speak at these hearings, individually and as a board collective.

The district council will decide the Board's fate on September 16.

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Louis Wilson with Charlotte Jackson (Programme Manager) and MAC volunteers Millie Cranfield and Bella Robertson.

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In just one year, the Mint Charitable Trust has gone from supporting four families in the Upper Clutha to 20.

Now, the non profit organisation hopes to create a more inclusive community by engaging Wānaka’s youth.

For the first time, Mint - promoted as M!NT - will work with 13-17 year olds to provide them with valuable skills.

A pilot scheme, Horizons, has been designed to encourage peer support and friendships across the wider community.

Programme Manager Charlotte Jackson said that the programme will cover content that can be used in every aspect of life from university to the workplace.

“The young people we have here are our future leaders, there are so many incredibly kind, talented and awesome youth in our town and harnessing their passion for helping others at a young age is invaluable for both them, and our community long term,” she said.

The programme will take part at Mt Aspiring

College with a series of interactive sessions spanning across six weeks.

It will cover topics including building rapport, helping others to understand, the importance of routine, strategies for dealing with the unexpected, along with basic sign language skills.

The trust aims to give young people enough confidence to “engage with people from neurodiverse backgrounds in a mutually beneficial way,” Jackson said.

The Mint programme is run by volunteers including students from Mt Aspiring College.

The trust said that the volunteers are a key component of their success.

"We are amazed by their commitment, drive, passion and enthusiasm to help others."

Mint also holds daily activities during term time for young people with intellectual disabilities. It also offers a school holiday programme and is planning a first camping trip.

Speech and Language Therapist Hallie Pearson will help run Horizons alongside Jackson.

“We hope we can continue to run and develop this programme to offer it to more youth in the future,” Jackson said.

Ellesse in St Peters, Cambridge.

Continued from page 1 Finding the right balance between training and "just being a kid" was very important to both Jon and Angela.

“We found a balance that would enable her to ride with some level of fitness without forcing her to do anything or kill her passion for it.”

Jon, a former Olympian and Commonwealth champion, said that he and Ellesse would often go on regular bike rides with Wānaka’s Racer's Edge team, where he worked part-time.

Ellesse also joined a teenage strength conditioning group in Wānaka alongside biathlon star Campbell Wright and freestyle skier Finn Bilous.

Wānaka based strength and conditioning coach, Val Burke, who ran the group, said that it was “so lovely” to see Ellesse at the Olympics.

“The one thing that stood out for me is when we did box jumping and Ellesse jumped to the very highest level without even trying.”

"She was a very nice girl, she worked hard, and I don’t think she realised how much potential she actually had,” Burke said.

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By the time she started at MAC, Ellesse had a notable talent on the bike and was selected to join the Upper Clutha Junior Sports Academy for track cycling and netball.

"Her achievement shows students that aspirational goals can be achieved. It's not just about the medal win, but being able to compete at an event such as the Olympics," MAC Principal, Nicola Jacobsen said.

The family moved to Cambridge when Jon secured a coaching job for the New Zealand cycling team in 2015.

Upon leaving Wānaka, Ellese would compete internationally, securing gold in the junior women's individual pursuit at the UCI Junior World Track Cycling championships in 2017.

The family look forward to their next trip to Wānaka, Jon said.

“In Wānaka, you’ve got this amazing environment where kids can really shine and they can chase the things they love and it's supported by talented people who know what they’re doing."

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Leaks, camera… action Lauren Prebble

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The leaked information about the special fasttracked film park sanctioned in Wānaka has caused a stir of excitement among the community with most in favour of the project.

“Commercially sensitive” documents for a fast tracked consent application went public late last week due to an upload botch-up by the Environmental Protect Authority (EPA).

Brendan Smith was among those in the social discussion who read the media announcements of SilverLight studios plans and welcomed the ploy to diversify the economy.

“The pandemic has highlighted NZ’s dependence on the tourism dollar... The studio, if done well, could offer economic stability, and more work options for young workers beyond hospitality. Challenges? yes. Good for Wānaka?

I think so.”

In the application, SilverLight Studios says the project will have a positive economic impact delivering a GDP of $1.7 billion to New Zealand and $969 million to the Queenstown Lakes economy.

The 332 ha industrial film park has projected that it could create over 4000 jobs in its first year with on-going mass employment opportunities up until year 11.

Jason Beacham felt dubious about the film

park. He states he’s not against growth but doesn’t believe there is the infrastructure in place to support a new industry. Many have expressed concerns about the accommodation and congestion pressures this film park will add.

“The population is expected to more than double in the next 25 years” says Beacham “Where are these workers going to live? What are we going to do with the forecast traffic increase? So many questions arise, yet it seems like none were even asked, let alone answered” Beacham wonders why there wasn’t any community consultation with a development this big.

Corbridge Estate stakeholder, Peter Marshall, believes the approval of the SilverLight Studio of this will have a bigger impact than the plans to utilise the Wānaka Airport and thought the view in town was ‘mixed’.

There’s speculation among the social forums that this project will provide a gateway to a new Airport. John Wellington writes “It will stop the further development of Wānaka Airport and probably make Tarras more likely.”

Protect Wānaka Chairman Michael Ross felt there wasn’t enough detail about the proposal for the group to make a public stance.

Among the leaked details was a cityscape set with buildings as tall as 17 meters. The height has raised questions about the visual disruption

Architectural plans from the SilverLight Application to EPA which have now been removed.

it will have on the rural setting.

Mr Marshall found irony that the industrial sized film studio was being strongly considered.

The Corbridge Estate collective tried to get consent on a 300 room hotel with golf course last year but was turned down by QLDC due to ‘environmental impact’.

Marshall, along with seven other shareholders have leased the land to SilverLight Studio but still have ownership rights. He saw the arrangement

purely as a business transaction and was not bothered whether or not approval would be granted.

The consent stage has sinced reached ‘conditional’ and the application is now under deliberation. Redacted documents of the SilverLight application have now been removed from the EPA site but SilverLight spokeswoman Melissa Booth said feedback has been ‘well received’ even at the pre-approved status.

MAC students explore global issues Daisy Watford

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Two dozen Mount Aspiring College students took part in the 2021 Model United Nations Summit at the Lake Wānaka Centre last week.

Students from MAC, Wakatipu and Dunstan high schools attended the event which formed part of the annual UN Youth New Zealand events.

Students assumed roles across policy and innovation teams, and a press corp.

The conference focused on a range of topics related to freedom of speech including the rights and responsibilities of the media and the importance of critical thinking in the digital age.

Students also explored how fake news and misinformation is used for political gain.

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from Wānaka not-for-profit organisation Wao helped support the event alongside Alex Leckie-Zaharic.

MAC Principal NicolaJacobsen said that the students demonstrated maturity and "a wealth of global knowledge" that they applied to a real-world context.

"Those who attended the event to spectate or supervise were thoroughly impressed by the conduct and achievement of all involved, with the event considered an overwhelming success," Jacobsen said.

UN Youth NZ is a registered charity that holds events across the country to engage young people with local and global conversations.

Their overall mission is to “inspire global citizens” through a series of workshops, model UN events, and discussions across secondary and tertiary education providers.

24 MAC students attended the model UN summit alongside students from across the region.

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Boost for Water Project Pride expo in the aisle Daisy Watford

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It takes more than one person to plant a tree into the soil.

Well, according to Matt Shepherd, Project Manager for the Water Project, it takes an entire community.

The Water Project (WWP) experienced some of the area’s famous community spirit last week when it won the Million Metres campaign for its fundraising efforts.

The project, matched with 12 other projects from around the country, received an additional bonus of $8000 for raising the most donations over an eight week period.

On top of the prize, the environmental protection organisation raised $20,000, which included an anonymous matching donation of $10,000.

Wai Wānaka, who oversees the WWP, will be putting the funds towards its five year riparian planting project.

Now in its fourth year, the project is designed to improve the area’s waterways.

The initiative is a joint effort that requires planning, preparation, and years of future maintenance.

“After planting the tree, it’s important that we maintain and monitor the plant to make sure that it is having a positive effect on the environment,” Shepherd said.

Wai Wānaka works in partnership with the Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust to plant native grasses, sedges, flaxes, shrubs and trees into riparian zones.

It is a significant collaboration between two organisations who share a common environmental goal, Shepherd said.

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The team behind the Wānaka Water Project celebrates its win of the Million Metres campaign, last week.

“We’re not just doing it on our own. One of the real cool things about Wānaka is its collaboration between community groups.”

Riparian planting helps to clean up the waterways and mitigate human impact on the environment.

It also contributes towards Wai Wānaka’s wider vision to protect water quality, the ecosystem, and biodiversity within the Upper Clutha basin.

“It feeds into all other projects including biodiversity monitoring, pest monitoring, and carbon planning,” Shepherd said.

So far, the project has put 16100 natives into the ground and has just under 8,000 to go.

Along with riparian planting, other aspects of the WWP include applied research and a community catchment plan which aims to address current and future risks to waterways.

“We’re looking at our streams, drains, and storm water and the impact humans have on that,” Shepherd said.

“The goal for this year is to bring that science together so that we can educate the community.”

According to Shepherd, the team at Wai Wānaka were “amazed” with the community response so far.

“We just want to say thank you. We wouldn’t have got to where we are without the support of the community.”

Members of the public can also support the project by participating in an upcoming planting session.

In total, the WWP wants to raise $50,000 by the next planting season to fund the remainder of its riparian work.

Celebrant Philippa Thomas began hearing stories of members of the rainbow community feeling judged and unwelcome when approaching wedding vendors, so she did something about it.

Thomas and a group of volunteers have rallied like minded wedding vendors to plan a pride wedding expo next month.

The not-for-profit NZ Pride Wedding Expo will be staged on September 2 at the Novotel Queenstown, Lakeside Hotel and showcase celebrants, photographers, planners, videographers, caterers, beverages and venues.

The four-hour expo will be part of the Winter Pride calendar.

“We wanted to create a wedding expo where everyone was welcomed with open arms and people could walk through the door without any fear of judgement,” Thomas said.

The annual Winter Pride Festival, which has attracted about 4000 people in the past, will run in Queenstown from August 27 to September 5.

Organisers say they have more than 10,000 Instagram and 6700 Facebook followers.

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Beacon Point sale tops list Thiel’s A home in Beacon Point Rd was the top seller in Wānaka in the first six months of the year.

At $4.5 million the April sale was the standout home among a group of six in the town to attracted $3 million-plus bids.

The number of properties sold for $1 million or more during the first half of 2021 boomed – and in Otago the number of $3 million home sales rose from a dozen to 36.

Nationally, there were 14,776 million-dollar plus sales, up from 5,516 in 2020, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand’s (REINZ) Million Dollar Price Report revealed.

“This is a significant change even though the first half of 2020 was impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown across the country,” Jen Baird, Chief Executive of REINZ said.

“The volume of properties sold over a million dollars is reflective of a property market that has seen 28.7% median price growth in the 12 months to the end of June 2021.”

Taking a two-year view back to the first 6 months of 2019, the number of million-dollarplus properties sold nationally tripled, increasing 200.9% from 4,910.

For New Zealand excluding Auckland, the number of million-dollar-plus properties sold increased 231.1% annually (4,798 up from 1,449 –3,349 more properties).

In Auckland, the number of million-dollarplus properties sold during the first half of 2021 9,977 – represented the largest annual percentage increase for the region in more than a quarter of a century.

“Auckland drives the largest volume of milliondollar-plus sales, increasing 145.3% year-on-year – an expected, albeit large jump as the Auckland median now sits comfortably above the million-

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This Wānaka home fetched $4.5 million.

dollar mark,” Baird said.

“Nationally, we are seeing the same trend off a lower base with considerable percentage increases in the number of million-dollarplus properties selling. We continue to see the demand and supply imbalance putting upward pressure on prices, resulting in an increase in million-dollar-plus sales in every region.

“For the first time, every region has had a seven-figure sale, with the West Coast joining the club in June 2021.

The region with the biggest annual percentage increase in the number of million-dollar-plus properties sold was Marlborough, with a 437.5% increase from the first half of 2020 (43 properties up from 8).

All 16 regions saw year-on-year increases in the number of million-dollar-plus properties sold in the first half of 2021. Every region also saw a record number of sales in the million-dollar-plus bracket, including the West Coast, which had its first million-dollar-plus sale in June 2021.

US billionaire Peter Thiel has put his Queenstown property on the market and wants a little over $6 million for it.

The Auckland Real Estate company ‘Wall Real Estate’ who arranged the purchase of the iconic ‘Plasma’ house 10 years ago is now dealing with the sale.

The house is presently a $1600 a night holiday home. It’s not the only property PayPal founder has bought and made limited use of in Queenstown Lakes. In 2015 he purchased the 193ha land known as Damper Bay on the outskirts of Glendhu Bay. The crown leasehold farm land cost him $13.5 million.

An American news agency reported last year that the lot had been left empty and neglected.

Real Estate Agent Ollie Wall said they had not had any dialogue with Mr Thiel in regards to it and the property was ‘confidential’.

The early Facebook investor, who has in the past been an advocate for Donald Trump, was in the headlines in 2017 when details of his New Zealand citizenship emerged. Thiel spent 12 days in the country before being awarded citizenship then left.

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Solar: virtually a power station Daisy Watford

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“Virtual” power plants - communities which use their own harvested solar energy and feed some of it to the national grid - are set to become a key energy source.

Central Otago electricity provider Aurora Energy and solar company SolarZero have combined to promote the virtual system and suggest Wānaka can be a national leader.

They say the booming population growth has put such a strain on existing power distribution lines from Cromwell to Wānaka they are near capacity.

SolarZero spokesperson Eric Pyle, who visited Wānaka last week, said a virtual power plant could save the community millions of dollars and "put Wānaka on the map”.

The vulnerability of the country’s power system was exposed this week.

Pyle’s visit came a week before the country’s power system fell over following a polar blast.

Transpower NZ asked distribution companies to reduce the load across the country and some responded by pulling the plug on supplies leaving 20,000 homes without power.

Aurora says the solar option could enable it to defer spending $25 million on a new electricity distribution line and substation upgrade.

“It benefits everybody in the community because the longer this upgrade can be pushed down the road, the network charges are less likely to increase,” Pyle said.

“Basically, if we can make the power system run more efficiently, it will cost everybody less.”

Pyle said the system paved the way for similar services to be installed across the country. He

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Rooftop solar panels in the suburbs are touted as potential “virtual power plants”.

compared the project to an initiative in New York which resulted in the deferral of a billion dollar infrastructure upgrade for over a decade.

In March a company called Swell Energy announced the start of a residential solar storage programme for homeowners in Queens, New York. The programme aims to deliver 500-kW of capacity from solar-powered home batteries.

It is expected the programme will help reduce demand and relieve stress on the electric grid during peak demand periods without additional energy infrastructure construction and upgrades.

While there is “a pressing need” for a new solution in the Upper Clutha, other regions like the Coromandel Peninsula are also considering the move, Pyle said.

“It’s really the first attempt to come up with a much smarter power system that’s going to address climate change moving into the future.”

He hopes that the project could grow into a community wide solar scheme where households can share their energy with other residents who are unable to install solar.

Wānaka enjoys 2100 hours of sunlight on average each year.

A 2020 Government report on energy generation said solar generation in 2019 was enough to power every household in New Zealand for nearly four days.

It said the combination of continued declines in the cost of solar and wind technology and the limited supply of gas pointed to the majority of new build generation being renewable.

As of the end of March this year, 31,589 solar power systems had been installed in New Zealand according to Wikipedia, and by the end of last year Aurora had recorded 365 installations of a national total of just under 30,500.

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Francesca Italian Kitchen is a finalist in the New Zealand Hospitality awards and looks well placed to nab ‘people’s choice’ too.

The Wānaka eatery is among five others in the ‘Best Restaurant’ category. Also there is Queenstown’s White & Wongs. They placed their entry in June and were told of their finalist spot late July.

“We entered this competition for the same reason we'd love to win,” says Francesca manager Natalia Rossi “it's a recognition of the hard work of our amazing staff and the support of lots of happy customers.”

Francescas has been a finalist before in this category but never won.

Namesake owner, Francesca Voza expressed gratitude for staff - “It has been a tough year for hospitality… we have had to adapt and change the way we operate.”

The restaurant retrieved points for innovation when installing private greenhouse dining during the height of the pandemic, a time when social distancing was enforced.

Next week the judging panel will gather together to decide the winners, to be announced on September 9.’

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Tourism: more than bed nights Lauren Prebble

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The significance of what is called “Regenerative Tourism” has been highlighted by Lake Wānaka General Manager Tim Barke.

Regenerative tourism aims to build capital and gives back to the land and people.

Industry leaders met in Queenstown last week as discussions around a Regenerative Tourism 2030 document opened.Talks involve tourism boards in Wānaka and Queenstown and the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

Discussion forums have been held in Cardrona, Queenstown, Glenorchy and Arrowtown and there will be four design workshops.

Tim Barke said the way tourism impacts on tourist venues was being underlined before Covid hit - and the pandemic provided a reset..

“Traditionally, the primary success of the visitor industry has been measured in visitor bed nights and economic input into the economy,” he said.

“What was becoming apparent prior to Covid arriving was that, although there had been significant positive impacts, exclusively economic, concerns were beginning to be voiced from local communities that not all impacts being felt were positive and concern that with growth, negative impacts would increase.”

The Ministry of Innovation has allocated $75,000 under a strategic assets protection programme to assist the three bodies with community consultation to agree on a tourism model for the future.

New Queenstown tourism head Paul Abbott says the sheet is blank on tourism and he wants to

Design forum participant Jane Bamford and Lake Wānaka General Manager Tim Barke, pictured at last week’s tourism meeting.

see a “genuine collaborative process” established to set the course.

Abbott, who was appointed in March and crossed the Tasman to take up the post, said at the time his priority would be to listen and learn to gain a full understanding of what stakeholders believed the issues were and what needed to be done.

Two consultants from Proxima Global - a company specialising in sustainability and impact consulting services helped set up discussions

last week to gather ideas on paper about how the community wanted tourists to interact with “people and place”.

A five strong industry advisory group, which includes Cardrona’s chief executive Brigett Legnavski, has been appointed to oversee the regenerative tourism plan. Over 40 interviews have been conducted ahead of the launch of a survey.

Consultants Simon Harvey and Hugo Miller said there was an alignment of feedback coming through. Kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and

accountability were repeated among individuals at the Sherwood, Queenstown session.

The claim for regenerative tourism by 2030 is a moving target according to Barke.

“There is no end date as to when this will be completed as it is an ongoing process that we will continue to improve on over time,” Tim Barke said.

For this month, discussion will continue but with only invited participants. Several community sessions will be held before the final plan is released in December.

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Retirement village gets go ahead A planned retirement village near Wānaka will feature 100 residential apartments and a care unit.

Winton Property Limited successfully applied for resource consents to be considered under the Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 and the decision was announced by the Environmental Protections Authority (EPA) last week.

The village - promoted at “Luxury Later Living” will also include a private hospital, a cafe, gym, swimming pool and community centre.

But the developers are looking at their options after being told to downsize a Care Pod facility they plan. It is understood Developer Chris Meehan believes the restriction to a limit of 24 beds reduces the project’s viability.The consent included a condition that the Care Pod be one storey.

The decision made by an independent panel was announced in a 61-page report 100 working days after the application was lodged with the EPA. The EPA is responsible for providing advice and administrative support for the Panel Convener, Judge Laurie Newhook, and the consenting panels he appoints.The other members were Hoani Langsbury and Ian Munro.

The Northbrook Wānaka Retirement Village will be built on the northern edge of the Northlake area of Wānaka, adjoining Outlet Road.

The residential units for independent living will comprise one, two and three bedrooms and the “Care Pod” building with specialist care units, a communal kitchen, dining and living areas,

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A view of how Winton Property sees the proposed village.

medical storage space and staff facilities.

A clubhouse and amenity building for social and active recreation will include a lounge bar and kitchen, yoga room, gym, swimming pool and spa.

In its decision the panel said it had considered points raised by the Otago Regional Council regarding water and waste issues and accepted Winton Property’s responses.

The decision quoted a report by Urban Economics which provided an evaluation of the retirement village market in Wānaka and concluded there were 213 existing retirement

village units in the town and a very low level of vacancy.

“As the Application notes, this tends to indicate there is a general shortage of retirement village units in the area,” the panel noted. “The Application also notes that the number of retiree households aged 70 years and older in Wānaka is forecast to increase by 67% by 2028.

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tangata whenua, who were granted the land as compensation many years ago.

The number of Retirement Villages is growing at a rapid rate in New Zealand.

The Retirement Villages Association of New Zealand lists two dozen such villages in Southland and Otago. The Association represents the interests of more than 32,000 village residents and says total industry investment in accommodation for seniors is more than $100 billion.

Winton Property had not responded to questions from the WānakaSun when this edition went to press.

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Focus on community growers Daisy Watford

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Grow Wānaka has transformed into an expansive community garden set to become an educational hub to promote food security in just a year.

To celebrate, the charity organisation will be hosting an event to put the spotlight on market growers from the Upper Clutha next week.

Event organiser and committee member Emberly Wetherall said it’s important now more than ever to connect with market gardeners from across the district.

“This is about creating a thriving and vibrant local economy that provides access to essential resources and creates an interwoven urban and rural community in mutual support of each other that strengthens the fabric of our community.”

The event will highlight holistic producers who provide sustainable products in and around Wānaka.

Representatives from Frog Song Farm, Harvest Homegrown, Wānaka Willows, Herbal Culture, Wānaka Free Range Eggs and the People’s Bread Co will come together to show the wider community what’s on offer.

Erin Allison from Harvest Homegrown in Lake Hawea expressed her excitement for the event. “Grow Wānaka have achieved so much in their first year and now that they are set up and ready to grow, I look forward to seeing what they get up to over the coming season.

"Local food resilience has become ever more topical and relevant in the last few years, not only due to the pandemic but also environmental reasons."

She hopes that the event will encourage Wānaka residents to think about where their fresh produce comes from and find out how they can get involved with growing food locally.

Grow Wānaka plans to establish a Vermicomposting system and develop a series of workshops that will cover a wide variety of gardening topics and skills.

“We are hoping to get our food waste collection operations up and running so we can expand our vermicast systems to begin closing the loop of our urban waste streams,” Wetherall said.

Produce grown on the site will then be donated to charitable organisations and volunteers.

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Supported by Community Networks Wānaka, the event will start at the Wānaka Community Hub at 6pm.

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Students from Mount Aspiring College have returned from a cultural trip to Rotorua.

The school’s Kapa Haka group enjoyed a week long excursion to the North Island. Year 8-13 students were joined by staff and parents from the college.

“The Rotorua trip was so fun and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Māori culture,” Year 10 student Ella Briscall said.

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Native hawks lead astray One of the great beneficiaries of the introduction of pests in New Zealand is now becoming a victim of its own success.

And incidents of lead poisoning are also showing up in other native birds and have prompted concerns it could also impact on humans..

Kahu - the harrier hawk - increased in numbers across the country when mammals were introduced because their food supply boomed.

That is why they are such a familiar sight in New Zealand skies.

Kahu are also scavengers - and that is why they are also frequently seen on our roads feasting on road kill.

Now the Oxford Bird Rescue centre in Christchurch reports they are also dying from lead poisoning after eating animals shot during pest control operations.

Oxford Bird Rescue specialises in saving raptors - hawks, ruru (owls) and karearea (falcons - the bird on our $20 note).

Karearea numbers have plummeted because their nesting habits play into the hands of introduced pests like stoats - but they are not scavengers.

Our hawk, like the pukeko, is native - but also

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found in Australia and New Guinea.

Oxford Bird Rescue co-founder Scott Bowman told the Otago Daily Times lead poisoning was the second biggest threat to the hawk, next to being hit by vehicles.He believes the rise in poisonings is as a result of shooters leaving carcasses behind for predators to eat.

The incidents of lead poisoning is prompting calls for a ban on the use of lead shot.

Alan Parker of Avian Rescue Otago said the incidents of lead poisoning seemed to be more common this year.

“The reality is it’s a large threat to not only hawks but also to all raptors. It's even beginning to show up in our other natives, we had a scaup recently testing at a low range blood lead level, other rescues have also reported species such as tui now presenting with it as well,” he said.

Animals cannot excrete lead and other metals from the body easily.

“It has a cumulative effect, so the continued exposure to even small amounts will eventually lead to the onset of symptoms. As Scotty from Oxford recently said, it's after these symptoms develop that they're then at an increased risk of predation, car strike and starvation.

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could also be making their way into the human food chain - “if livestock ingest the pellets they too can suffer from its effects and so can the people who then ingest it”.

“Lead poisoning cases are extremely heartbreaking, birds require intensive care for the symptoms - clenched talons, inability to fly, ataxia, sitting on its hocks, seizures and even death, and to see a bird suffering from extremely severe lead poisoning, you begin to realise the

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He said the treatment is equally as grueling consisting of twice daily intramuscular injections Calcium EDTA for five days followed by a break before starting again.

“Depending on the severity of the poisoning these birds can require multiple rounds. The drug itself is extremely expensive, it carries risks as well. It is extremely hard on the kidneys, some patients don't make it through the treatment”.

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Members from the Department of Conservation (DoC) and Matukituki Charitable Trust were all smiles last month as both parties signed to renew the Matukituki Management Agreement for a further five years.

The Matukituki Valleys are the main corridors into the Mt Aspiring National Park for 80,000 people each year and the Matukituki Charitable Trust was established to protect native wildlife

by Gillian and Derek Crombie in 2013.

The partnership with DoC was set up in 2015 to protect West Matukituki. Seven years on, 852 traps make up an extensive predator control network which has removed 5000 pests including possums, rats, cats, weasels, stoats, hedgehogs, mice and rabbits . Three 1080 programmes have also been completed in that time.

The renewed trust agreement with DoC focuses on three specific objectives for the next five years including a programme to enhance Kea numbers, with Kea Conservation Trust support, to release the endangered mohua (yellowhead) in the valley and remove feral cats and prevent reinvasion.

Kakaruwai (South Island robin which were reintroduced in 2008 by DoC), kakariki, kaka, korimako (bell bird) and riroriro (grey warbler) have reportedly thrived under the long-serving partnership.

The group of volunteers and DoC workers are striving to establish West Matukituki as a southern sanctuary pest free area.

Inland ecological islands are proving to be a significant force in recovering endangered native

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Korimako are thriving in the protected areas of the Matukituki Valley.

flora and fauna.

The country’s biggest inland ecological island is the Waikato. Sanctuary Mountain, on Maungatautari south of Hamilton, is protected by one of the world’s longest pest-proof fences, at 47 kilometres long.

The 3400 hectare reserve is a mammal-free haven for native wildlife and part of a Wakato

network which is credited with the return tui to Hamilton.

In Wellington the kea’s cousin the kākā is now seen in the suburbs thanks to the work of the Zealandia sanctuary in Karori. Kākā were considered all but extinct in Wellington since the early 1900s before 14 captive-bred birds were introduced to the sanctuary from zoos over a five

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year period from 2002. Six years ago Zealandia had banded over 750 birds and found un-banded kākā showing up at feeding sites, indicating they were breeding in natural nest sites outside of the sanctuary.

The Matukituki Trust is also working to boost numbers of the endangered New Zealand rock wren - pīwauwau.

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Huskies on the run

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Three days of racing started today.

Howls and barks of excited sled dogs are set to fill the air at the Snow Farm in Cardrona Valley as the Wānaka Sled Dog Festival starts today.

The South Island Siberian Husky Club is hosting the Wānaka Sled Dog Festival through to Saturday.

Yesterday was a ‘Meet & Greet” at the Wānaka Recreation Reserve providing the public an opportunity to meet the mushers and dogs involved.

“This year we have 21 entrants who are travelling from all over New Zealand to experience the only sled race held in the country,”

spokesperson Sarah Campbell said.

“We have a great mixture of entrants this year with a number of novice (first time) mushers, junior (children aged under 16) through to those more experienced coming back for another go on the snow.”

Normally racing is done on dryland in forests where wheeled rigs and scooters are used.

Race classes include six dog teams right down to single dog ski-jor teams. In total over 50 people are involved in this race - 21 entrants, plus support crew and officials and about 100 dogs.

Racing starts at Snow Farm at 7.30 each day.

So, this week started with more shoplifting… and ended with a charge to go to court.

There were crashes on the Crown Range Road, south of the Cardrona village – take care, if it’s not the ice, it’s the grit that can catch people out.

The team spent some time throughout the week with a family in need of support. We’re lucky here to have some professional and motivated people in our community, outside of Police who are on hand to seek advice, guidance and support from. You can pop into the Community Hub on McDougall Street or call the Community Networks team on 03 443 7799 to get some advice and to seek out what wellbeing services are available.

Other incidents dealt with by the team this week included problem housemates, lots of prevention work on our roads and doing everything we can to support those in crisis – I can’t reiterate what I said above, enough. Help is truly out there, so, please, speak to someone before things get a bit on top of you.

Police have also identified an emerging trend that has begun to show itself with scams via text messages. While the traditional cold-calls from ‘your bank name inserted here’ are still occurring, people are now receiving txt messages with a link attached. Do not open the link. Delete the message.

Banks, government agencies and other corporates will not randomly send you messages to open links via a text message. We’ve also been hearing of scams with products such as iTunes gift cards where someone you know has ‘asked

you to buy them’ in an email. Speak to the person first to check if it was them or not and clarify that it wasn’t their e-mail/Facebook that has been compromised.

During the week, a small trampoline was taken from the Holy Family School on Aubrey Road – if one has shown up unexpectedly on your lawn, let us know, or pop it back yourselves so the kids can use it again.

As usual for this time of year, we also have a number of driver licences and cell phones handed in to us as missing property from the ski resorts – if you’ve lost it, we might have it, so come down and check.

Police put a focus on drink driving on Friday night, and had some high-profile checkpoints.

Sadly, we report that eight people were caught on Friday night driving over the breath alcohol limit.

Finally, I want to talk about our preventative work on the roads, dubbed Op Deterrence, and our ‘why’ behind it. Why we feel the need to pull you over in your car to breath test you. Why we make passengers walk home if their driver is on a restricted licence. Why the result of going too fast results in a ticket.

It is because moments like five young boys tragically losing their lives in a car crash in Timaru this weekend, happen.

We also plead with you, the parents, to know where your kids are, know where your car keys are and maintain those boundaries that don’t make you your child’s best friend, but make you their best parent and ultimately keep them safe.

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When it comes to parenting, there's a few things I've given up on. Trying to get a good night's sleep is one of them.

But one thing I haven't given up is my determination to become more eco friendly.

Well, as eco friendly as we can be running on half empty.

You see, these tiny beings we call our children can actually have a huge impact on the environment.

In fact, after a quick Google search, I have since found out that having children is 'the most destructive thing a person can do to the environment'. Ouch.

My efforts to reduce our family's carbon footprint would mostly consist of reusable nappies, not using baby wipes, and only buying toys made of natural materials.

In the first few hazy weeks, we were way too busy to focus on anything.

Looking back, I think even if I had attempted to use reusable nappies during those first six weeks, I would probably have given up all together.

Once I regained my strength, slowly but surely, I was determined to make it work.

Apparently, with the help from good old Google, around a million nappies are sent to the landfill everyday in New Zealand.

Considering the average commercial nappy takes 150 years to decompose, that's a shocking statistic.

Of course, when you're a sleep deprived mess trying to navigate the wonders of parenting, landfill stats isn't exactly something that comes to mind.

Once we were in the swing of things, though, we realised how awesome cloth nappies are.

Not only are they better for the planet but they look cute, feel good on baby's bum, and save you heaps of money in the long run.

Don't get me wrong. We haven't got the cloth nappy thing down to a T, but we try our best.

And that's all anyone can do.

I'll happily put my hands up and say that we still use disposables during the night and for trips away.

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Tobias with some toys from the toy library.

We also use a disposable swim nappy underneath his reusable one to avoid any code brown embarrassments.

We also try our best in other aspects too.

We buy second hand clothes and toys through the wonderful Wānaka mum's n bubs Facebook page.

We go to the Wānaka Toy Library which is truly awesome.

As for the baby wipes, that didn't go so well.

I started by using cloths that I had cut up, but it all became a bit tedious when I realised just how many of those cloths were needed to wipe up one poopy mess.

Another challenge is the laundry.

Before Tobias, we'd do a laundry wash once or twice a week.

Now we have enough laundry for a daily wash.

I don't like blaming Tobias for things but the boy sure goes through a lot of clothes.

And that is a lot of power, right?

So it seems that despite our best efforts, we've already increased our carbon footprint just by having a baby.

Luckily though, there are little things we can all do to start cutting our baby's CO2 emissions down.

Swapping out one disposable nappy a day with a reusable one is a great start. Breastfeeding, if we can, is another. Eating less meat as a family. Going for a walk with the stroller instead of hopping in the car (not always easy I know!)

It's these small lifestyle changes that can make a huge difference.

And, who knows, when our little people are grown, they might even thank us for it!

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Waitaki turn table MAC’s first XV was beaten 32-7 by an improved Waitaki in last weekend’s college rugby Middle Four trophy semi-final clash in Oamaru last weekend.

“It has been a season full of learning and growth for our young team and we have promising signs for next year’s squad,” coach Gareth Houley said after the game.

Paying tribute to a team of helpers who

supported the team during the season he added “we didn’t reach the goals we set but we were all so proud to see our team improve and grow in confidence and skill as the season progressed. I can’t wait for next season".

The team play their final game against Wakatipu in the annual inter-school match next Wednesday in Queenstown.

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Hockey teams second, third Upper Clutha Hockey Club was pipped in a penalty shoot out in the region's Senior A division, the equivalent of the 1st XI school competition, last Friday.

The club’s Black team and Dunstan 1st XI played out a 1-1 draw in the final, and it was Dunstant who prevailed in the shoot out.

The Upper Clutha Gold team team beat Cromwell 6-2 in a playoff for third.

The results capped off a season which saw the club go from strength to strength with numbers growing strongly in all age groups.

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Key Job Functions and Requirements: • Arrange and manage mainly outdoor events on and around a rural site.

• Two+ years relevant experience in event organisation and management required.

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Funding round is now open and will close at 5.00pm on Friday 27 August 2021.

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Composite bowlers to the ‘four’ It’s been another very busy spell at the Wānaka Bowling Club, with bowls being played on all but one day.

One of the winter season’s major tournaments was held last week - the Men’s Invitational Fours for the Faulks Trophy sponsored by Honda Wānaka.

This involved eight men’s fours teams from Clyde, Cromwell, Queenstown, Arrowtown, Hawea and Wānaka.

The results were extremely close and differentials of scores had to be used to separate the top two teams. Only four points separated the top four teams.

In the end, the composite team of Don Urquhart(skip) (Hawea), Ken Allison (Wānaka), Bob Steel (Wānaka),

Neville Roberts (Hawea) ran out the winners with 86 points and a plus differential of 29 In second place was the Wānaka team of Don Cameron(s), Murray Finn, Ewan Miller, George Cameron. They also had 86 points but a lesser differential of 19. Third place belonged to Peter Bannerman’s Clyde team of Geoff Hurst, Jeff Bell and Trevor Wooller who scored 85 points. Fourth place was taken by Peter Herbert’s Wānaka team of Derek Hope, Pat Traynor and John Maddison on 83 points. Going into the last game Peter Herbert’s team looked well placed to win the tournament but their game fell right away and so did the

title. That’s bowls!

The Stadium at the Wānaka Bowling Club continues to be jam packed full of players and supporters on Saturday afternoons as the eight teams in the Studholme Trophy continue to compete for a place in the finals at the end of August.

The prize for the most vocal support would have to be by supporters of the two Hawea teams.

Any outstanding bowl or things having gone well for them results in a good old-fashioned roar of appreciation.

With only one week of play left, the race to be in the top four group has really hotted up and although Meadowstone, Mt Albert and Hawea

Squash success run continues

Wānaka players, from left, Harriet Sargood, Alex Resnick, Ethan Prince, George Sargood, Matthew Botting, Oisin Corbett, Nick Resnick, Kyan Prince and Cody Armstrong.

Have your cake and eat it too

The four tops: Donald Urquhart (skip), Bob Steel, Ken Allison, Neville Roberts with sponsor’s rep Morgan King (Honda Wānaka).

Blue look fairly secure, the last place in the top group could be any of Beacon Point, Pembroke Heights or Rippon West Meadows Points: Meadowstone 70, Mt Wānaka Squash club has celebrated a successful fourth Head Junior Tournament in Dunedin.

Oisin Corbett won the boys’ A division and Alex Resnick took the boys’ B division. Also in the A division George Sargood was fourth, Matthew Botting seventh and Rui Fukaya eighth.

Matthew and Rui have been rewarded for their progress this year by being promoted to the A division where they are both competitive.

Alex Resnick beat clubmate Kyan Prince in the boys B final – it was Prince’s third successive tournament final. Also in the B

Albert 61, Hawea Blue 60, Beacon Point 45, Pembroke Heights 41, Rippon/West Meadows 39, Hawea Gold 32, Village 25.

– By Peter Wilson division Harriet Sargood finished third and Ethan Prince fifth.

Cody Armstrong, in his first squash tournament, finished third in the C division. Nick Resnick finished fourth in the D division, and he was involved in two of the best and entertaining games of the tournament that both went to five sets.

The fifth and final Head tournament will be on August 27-28 in Cromwell. The Wānaka juniors are dominating the series - of 60 competitors, Matthew and Oisin are joint leaders and Rui, Ethan, Alex and Kyan are in the top 10.

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