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QLDC publishes airport impact assessments Pat Deavoll
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n Tuesday Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) published the findings from the independently conducted socio-economic impact assessment of the district’s airport infrastructure. In order to provide an independent view of the economic and social impacts of the district’s existing airport infrastructure, and how they compare under four hypothetical airport development scenarios, professional services firm and economist MartinJenkins was appointed to undertake the assessment in November 2019. This work was supported by direct stakeholder engagement, workshops held throughout the district, and insight gained from an open online survey. Mayor Jim Boult thanked the community for getting involved with the stakeholder engagement and making sure a wide range of perspectives could be heard. “Our airports are an important gateway providing family and business connectivity to our more remote part of the world, but for some they have become a focus of the challenges associated with growth and the impacts associated with aircraft movements,” Boult said. “There have been voices on both sides of the argument. The assessments have been designed to objectively capture the likely effects of future airport development and assess the relative impacts between them. They have not been intended to arbitrate around differing perspectives. The report provides objective insight, facts and a range of factors for future consideration and to inform future decisions, but as I have previously stated and will reiterate now, any development across the district’s airport infrastructure is likely to be many years away given the effects of coronavirus on the
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Mike Theelan: Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive acknowledges that the report has been a challenging project for everyone involved. It had highlighted how much of the community’s concern around the recent rapid growth in the district’s population and visitor activity had become associated with the airport.
world’s economy. “It has been valuable to see the broad range of impacts associated with the airports and these will be important for the council, the Queenstown Airport Corporation and the community as specific development scenarios and future master plans are being developed. “We have a modified Statement of Intent due to be brought back to council later this year for consideration. This work will be essential in providing some balanced and well-informed discussion on this and other associated projects,” Boult added. QLDC chief executive Mike Theelen acknowledged it had been a challenging project for everyone involved. It had highlighted how much of the community’s concern around the recent rapid growth in the district’s population and visitor activity had become associated with the airport,
Expansion of Wānaka’s airport is an issues that has dogged the community for years.
which was very relevant to future discussions about growth and how it will be managed. Originally due to be completed in the autumn, the global coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the airports’ operations and has seen a dramatic downturn in tourism and the district’s economy. “The challenge for the MartinJenkins team was to ensure the assessments remained relevant in a new and uncertain post-COVID-19 environment, which they have endeavoured to do. The models developed for the report can be used to assess different scenarios and test different visitor demand forecasts or alternative assumptions, meaning it continues to offer a valuable assessment tool as we grapple with the fluidity of a post COVID-19 environment,” Mr Theelen said. Jason Leung-Wai, principal consultant from MartinJenkins, said the report confirmed the important role the airport’s connectivity provides to the district’s residents and businesses. “This counts both economically and socially,
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and even more so in the new COVID-19 environment,” he said. “It is a complex task separating out impacts directly resulting from airport activity from the impacts resulting from rapid population and visitor growth. Further, impacts can be positive or negative, significant or insignificant, depending upon your perspective. “We hope that the report provides the frameworks and information that will allow decision-makers to better understand the positive and negative impacts associated with airport infrastructure. This will help them to provide better direction and make more informed decisions on airport infrastructure that align to the district’s desired community outcomes,” Mr Leung-Wai added. The MartinJenkins Socio-economic Impact Assessment Report can be found on the QLDC website here: www.qldc.govt.nz/ media/0xkdujeq/mj_socioeconomic-impactsof-ql-airports_final_report_15062020.pdf Excerpts from report on page 12.
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LWT takes targeted approach to marketing the region
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James Helmore: LWT sees the domestic market as "visitors not tourists."
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LWT is targeting the ski market.
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We have all seen the larger than life TV promotions for Queenstown, but Lake Wānaka Tourism (LWT) is taking a more strategic approach towards marketing the Upper Clutha district. "Why you don't see big TV adverts from us is because we have a strategy specifically targeting skiers," said LWT general manager James Helmore. "So a lot of what we do you won't see unless you are the target audience. "With The Mountains Are Waiting (video clip that went live about two weeks ago) we are targeting the ski industry. In marketing speak, you have got to generate the awareness and anticipation to get people inspired, and that's what that release was about." Helmore said LWT was working closely with the ski areas in terms of messages for the
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targeted audience. Then there are a few layers underneath that in the way of social media advertising, he said. "One example is our email database of about 10,000 New Zealanders that we communicate directly with. We have had a relationship with many of these people for several years." LWT is a membership-based, incorporated society, with 450+ member businesses. Members are either commercial ratepayers or businesses who pay a subscription levy. LWT is predominantly funded by a tourism levy, determined as a percentage of the commercial and accommodation rate, and collected by council on behalf of LWT. Helmore said LWT saw the domestic market as "visitors not tourists." A visitor is someone you welcome into your place whereas a tourist has more of a superficial interaction, he said. "We have a few layers of work that have been launched or about to be launched for our visitor
market, which is essentially the only market we have available to us at this stage. "We've had a Wānaka Supporting Local campaign which was launched in the lockdown phase, and that was about building pride and a sense of place along with cash flow for businesses. That is something we have never done before. “We are trying to encourage our local community to support local businesses." There was also an initiative due to roll out soon in conjunction with Destination Queenstown to encourage backyard visitation- inspiring people to come over the hill in either direction and see what the towns had to offer, Helmore said. "We are about to hit go on that. "Then we have another body of work where we are anticipating the trans-Tasman border opening – and when this happens will depend on what we go into the market with. We have some scenarios in place for that – but it's a wait and see game regarding when this will happen," said Helmore. "We are targeting with promotions, and our
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core remit is to attract visitors to the Wānaka region to enjoy what we have to offer. We are doing that predominantly through interest-based messaging and campaigns. For instance, we are attracting people who are interested in skiing – that is a nice easy one, you add in a bit of wine, a bit of retail and a few other activities and it starts to broaden the picture. "The domestic audience also has a different footprint as to when it travels, how it travels and what it wants to do when it is in the region. Like all the agencies, we are trying to get a really good understanding of what that market looks like." The desire to travel has changed quite significantly, Helmore said. Three weeks ago there was a fear of 'will I catch COVID and spread it.' Now the confidence to travel has increased quite significantly, and we see that in the numbers that were here over Queens Birthday Weekend. “We were up 82 per cent- the fourth or fifth ranking percentage of all the regions in the country.”
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Five years on, Sir Tim Wallis Drive opens
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The Southern District Health Board has revealed the total number of cases of coronavirus in the Wānaka ward stands at 32, following a request from the Wānaka App on May 1.
Sir Tim Wallae and his five grandchildren at the opening of Sir Tim Wallace Drive.
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It's only been five years in the making, but Sir Tim Wallis Drive in the Three Parks commercial area was officially opened last Friday by Sir Tim Wallis and his five grandchildren After a delay of two months because of lockdown the roundabout connecting State Highway 84 and Sir Tim Wallis Drive saw a bevvy of locals and workers celebrate the opening, with Sir Tim Wallis cutting a ribbon with his grandchildren and developer Allan Dippie driving his quirky vintage tractor along the route as the first vehicle. Although traffic has started using the $4million roundabout, sealing work will not be completed until September. Work on a pedestrian and cycle underpass next to the roundabout will start in the next few weeks. Three Parks developer Willowridge Developments Ltd met the cost of the roundabout and the NZ Transport Agency will fund the underpass. Dippie, director of Willowridge Developments, said the route was a vital route for the town. He said Sir Tim Wallis Drive would provide critical access from “ that side of town and free up some of the existing congested routes into Wānaka. “We started several years ago from the Ballantyne Road end to connect to the new Wānaka Recreation Centre (WRC),” Dippie said
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The Southern District Health Board (SDHB) has revealed the total number of cases of coronavirus in the Wānaka ward stands at 32, following an Official Information Act (OIA) request made by the Wānaka App on May 1. This was the first time numbers were given The Sir Tim Wallis Drive roundabout from the air. for the Wānaka area specifically - during That first stage was completed in July 2016 in the pandemic, numbers were grouped into time for the opening of the WRC. territorial authorities. There were 216 cases Then it was upgraded with footpaths and cycle of coronavirus in the Southern district, the lanes before being extended to the Three Parks second highest rate in the country, and 87 in the New World supermarket. Queenstown Lakes District. The main road entrance to Three Parks was more complex than the Ballantyne Road entrance, requiring the rebuilding of the Mt Iron car park; the construction of a two-lane roundabout and cycle lanes and an underpass. Work began two years ago with the construction of a large car park built by Willowridge free of charge for the Department of Conservation’s Mt Iron walking track users. “The roundabout was complex design wise, and we had to deal with the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA),” Dippie said. “ “Construction was the easy part - until coronavirus hit and that delayed things as it did with everything else,’ he said. “But now it’s all complete the whole thing has been fun.”
On June 11, SDHB CEO Chris Fleming revealed to the Wānaka App that there had been 32 cases of coronavirus in the Wānaka ward including Hāwea, Mātukituki and Wānaka - but not all of these cases were local residents. Six of the cases gave an overseas address whilst being diagnosed in Wānaka, which lowered the official local count to 26 cases, explained Fleming. The New Zealand government announced on June 14 that it had been 23 days since the last new case of coronavirus was reported in the country, and there were no active cases to report. The total number of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand remained at 1,504, the total number of tests completed at 310,297.
Jobs and hours cut at New World Wānaka Joanna Perry
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Tim Donaldson, general manager retail, Foodstuffs South Island, confirmed on Monday that New World Wānaka was “going through the process” of reducing staff roles from 134 to 105, and full-time staff hours from 42.5 to 40 per week. This was to enable the store on Dunmore Street “to be sustainable and continue to provide employment in the future,” he said. “Close to the heart of the town centre, New World Wānaka’s customer base has traditionally been a mix of international and domestic tourists, local residents and the business community,” said Donaldson. “Like many businesses in New Zealand, the shutting down of international borders has had a significant impact on the number of customers shopping at the store. “Due to the reduction in customers at New
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World Wānaka, the store predicts a significant reduction in turnover for the foreseeable future, which means the owners, who took ownership of the store in August 2019, have been left with no option but to reassess staff numbers and the other costs associated with running the store. “For some weeks now, the team at New World Wānaka have been working reduced hours while remaining on full pay – a commitment the owners have tried to maintain for as long as possible,” he said. Donaldson said that it had been a “very tough decision to make,” but that reducing hours also had “the positive benefit of allowing the store to keep an additional six staff members employed.” He added that the team remained optimistic about the future of the store and, with the ski season and school holidays around the corner, were “looking forward to continuing to serve customers in the Wānaka community.” THURSDAY 18.06.20 - WEDNESDAY 24.06.20
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Boult: Like turning the ignition off on the car Pat Deavoll
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Minister of Tourism Kelvin Davis: “We’re investing in RTOs because they play an important role in supporting tourism.”
Lake Wānaka Tourism applying to $22.2 million tourism fund Joanna Perry
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Following Minister of Tourism Kelvin Davis announcement on June 4 that up to $20.2 million has been made available for New Zealand’s regional tourism operators (RTOs) to support the recovery of the tourism sector, Lake Wānaka Tourism (LWT) has confirmed they will be applying for additional funding. A $400 million Tourism Sector Recovery Plan has been established to position the sector for recovery from coronavirus. The plan includes a Strategic Tourism Assets Protection Programme which will provide up to $4 million to Discover Waitomo, and up to $20.2 million for New Zealand’s 31 RTOs. “We’re investing in RTOs because they play an important role in supporting tourism,” said Davis. “The restart, recovery and rebuilding of the sector will depend on capable and well-resourced regional organisations to lead and coordinate activities alongside the industry, stakeholders, Māori and communities.” LWT media and campaign manager Gizelle Regan said that the application process for
funding in the 2020/2021 financial year was for RTOs that can demonstrate a commitment to: • Advancing the goals of the New ZealandAotearoa Government Tourism Strategy and create a more productive, sustainable and inclusive tourism sector; • Retaining RTO investment from local government e.g. Government funding is not a substitution for local government funding; • Domestic marketing activity that complements Tourism New Zealand’s domestic marketing; and • Adopting a destination management approach in line with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) destination management guidelines which includes working with industry, communities and stakeholders to plan for the future, supporting industry capability and product development opportunities. “LWT will be applying for additional funding to support the recovery of the tourism sector in our region and are working through the details of this over the next few weeks with detailed plans included as part of the process due July 3,” Regan said.
In a Visionweek webinar, Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Jim Boult painted a bleak picture of tourism and the fate of the thousands of migrant workers living in the Queenstown Lakes District. The casualties of the coronavirus were the migrant workers stranded in New Zealand with no work and no eligibility for benefits he said. And with tourism coronavirus was like turning off the ignition on the car. It was not a reduction, it was a cessation, he said. Boult thinks there is still a possibility of a humanitarian crisis. "We have something in the region of four to five thousand migrant workers, and unlike Kiwis, they don't get supported by the state if they lose their jobs. “Through the Civil Defence emergency fund we have paid out in the region of a million and a half in support packages primarily in food vouchers and utility vouchers to these folk to keep them going. "Now with lockdown easing out we are worried that some will be moved out of their houses because they haven't been paying their rent but of more significant concern is when the supplementary wage runs out. I think a lot of these people believe they still have a job, but they are going to find they don't. "What happens then? I am concerned we will have a large number of people who don't have an income, who are in danger of having nowhere to live and I am talking to the government about the type of support those people will need."
We also find tourism, as our largest earner, in a lot of trouble, Boult said. All industries are affected, but if you take tourism, it's rather like PHOTOS: QLDC turning the ignition Jim Boult: There is still key off on the car; there the possibility of a humanitarian crisis. is no income, he said. "Can the district survive with just domestic tourism? We can survive, but we certainly aren't going to thrive. Tourism is never as lucrative without the international market. We need Kiwis. The encouraging aspect is that 36 per cent of our business to Queenstown and Wānaka last year was Kiwis. We need them to come back again in numbers." If we can get the trans-Tasman bubble operating with Australians coming here, we think we will do okay, Boult said. "It will be tough, but we will survive. "The signs have been written on the wall for mass-tourism over the past couple of years. We've seen some push back in our community. Since the 1980s we have been talking about value over volume. No one has cracked the nut, but I think it's time we did that." We have started seeing a greater interest in culture - interest in the iwi history around our district, he said. "And we put several projects for the government shovel ready process. We are hopeful we will get a couple of major projects approved for as well as providing better infrastructure, it's about providing jobs and an economic boost for the district."
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Wānaka businesses rally Central Otago maternity services no closer to delivery for charity home Pat Deavoll
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A brand new community built home in Wānaka is up for sale, with all the proceeds set to go to the non-profit organisation, Parenting Place, with the aim of helping over 300 families across New Zealand. The house has been built by local Sentinel Homes Wānaka franchisee, Bob Howden, supported by a group of local Wānaka businesses who have rallied together to donate time, money and resources to build a three-bedroom home for the charity. The proceeds of the sale will allow 300 New Zealand families to access Parenting Place’s sixweek Toolbox course for free. The course covers practical strategies and insights to better equip parents of toddlers, young children, or teenagers and has a proven track record of success. Parenting Place CEO, Greg Fleming explains: “We’re so grateful to Sentinel Homes for rallying together a group of generous, local suppliers who have given products and services at cost. These are homes built with heart. This is the fourth home that Sentinel Homes has built across the country to raise funds for Parenting Place, which shows an amazing commitment to the families of
New Zealand,” Fleming said the build is an “incredible initiative” for a kiwi family to enjoy with the added benefit of knowing the proceeds from their purchase will support 300 families around New Zealand with parenting courses. “We come across so many parents who are feeling stuck and need new ideas to help them with the challenges of parenting. No two children are the same, and the Toolbox courses are designed to help parents regain their confidence and passion for parenting by giving them new activities and strategies to use at home,” said Fleming. Sentinel Homes director, Stuart Shutt, said: “Our hope is that the family who buys this home will enjoy the open-plan layout, to create a family hub to enjoy meal-times and activities together”. The house is located at 30 Mount Nicholas Ave, Wānaka and is a stunning family home or holiday home, with three double bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living areas, great sun and views. From multinationals to local owneroperators, a number of businesses have supported this initiative, committed to ensuring that parents who don’t have the extra cash to pay for Parenting Place courses, can access the support they need.
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Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean said after months of delays she was stunned to discover the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) was now even further from providing a much-needed maternity hub for Central Otago families. At a board meeting two weeks ago, it was revealed the SDHB, which had originally agreed on the Gordon Road site, was now looking into different locations for the maternity hub. “I am completely mystified at the lack of urgency the DHB is showing in getting this service up in running, now focusing on the building instead of the care which is so desperately needed for all the young mothers in the area. “To me this shows a complete disregard to the safety risk these families are being put through due to a lack of adequate maternity services.” Dean said she is also concerned that the focus seemed to have shifted from the long-awaited results from the Maternity Services review, which was crucial in discovering the type of care needed throughout the region. “Frustratingly it appears the SDHB hasn’t even confirmed or outlined the type of care their “maternity hub” will provide, and instead have lost
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Jacqui Deans is stunned to discover the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) is now even further from providing a much-needed maternity hub for Central Otago families.
focus taking up energy sourcing locations when they already had settled on a site fit for purpose. “The newly proposed locations will be announced at the end of the month, followed by a consultation period in August - with those dates in mind I have little confidence Upper Clutha families will be seeing anything in the way of maternity services before the end of the year. “My thoughts go out to all the young mums right now tearing their hair out at the bureaucracy which is slowing down the development of a much-needed service and an SDHB which seems more focussed on keeping up appearances than providing them with critical maternity services.”
Jetstar resumes domestic flights Mount Iron Junction refusal due to ‘out-dated zoning’ would draw a large volume of visitors into planning staff, to move forward with a into Queenstown Joanna Perry newsdesk@thewanakasun.co.nz
Jetstar will resume domestic flights Auckland- Queenstown on July 1.
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Jetstar has announced it will resume domestic flying across New Zealand on July 1, including 14 return flights a week between Auckland and Queenstown. Fares will be available from $21. The resumption of services will see Jetstar flying 75 return flights per week to five destinations, returning to approximately 60 per cent of its normal domestic schedule. Customers with bookings on the remaining 40 per cent of flights have
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been contacted and offered a range of options. “With a move to level one restrictions across New Zealand, Jetstar is well and truly ready to take off,” said Jetstar Group CEO Gareth Evans. “We’re looking forward to bringing family and friends together and helping to boost local tourism by offering great low fares.” Jetstar will monitor demand, with further domestic flights likely to be added to the schedule in coming months.
Director of Mount Iron Junction Ltd Steve Schikker has said that the decision to deny resource consent for the company’s proposed mixed-use development at the base of Mt Iron in April was the result of “out-dated zoning” of the land, Consent was sought in February for a mixed-use development, the first stage of which would include a service station, workers’ accommodation, childcare centre and mini golf facility at the intersection of State Highways 6 and 84 between Wānaka, Lake Hāwea and Cromwell. But in April, the commissioners said the proposed development was likely to be "jarring" and of a scale and intensity "significantly greater than any existing activity close by (that which can be seen from the site)". They concluded that the non-complying activity on land zoned rural general would have adverse effects on the landscape, the network of Wānaka’s commercial centres, and the cumulative effects of the proposal
a predominantly rural setting. Schikker described the rural general zoning as an “anomaly”, because “no one has applied to do anything with it for twenty years.” The land was now adjacent to a church and residential zone, with additional developments close by - including the BP Garage and the Three Parks development - and no longer had rural value, he said. Schikker said that he had been incorrectly advised by council in a pre-application onsite meeting with Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) planners and policymakers to proceed with a resource consent application, when instead a plan change request to rezone the land was needed. A council spokesperson responded that; “Council does not give advice about whether an applicant should pursue a resource consent or district plan approach for proposed developments,” but Schikker told the Wānaka Sun that the advice was recorded in the meeting minutes. "We were told by the council staff, the
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All ski field restrictions lifted Local filmmakers feature strongly in festival
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From midnight on June 9, as the country dropped to Alert Level 1, the last remaining restrictions on ski fields were lifted, and hopes for Wānaka’s ski season became a reality. “We're on the final stretch now,” read a Lake Wānaka Tourism (LWT) update. “And there's snow on the mountains!” Snow Farm NZ will be the first of the southern mountains to open this Friday, June 19, closely followed by Cardrona Alpine Resort on June 26, and Treble Cone on June 27. Cardrona Alpine Resorts (Cardrona and TC) confirmed that, because they were expecting around 50 per cent of their usual visitors, there would still be a few changes to operations at Level 1. “The biggest difference is that we won't have as many staff as normal, so we appreciate in advance your patience and kindness with our whanau as they adapt to the changes this season,” read their update. Across both mountains, the plan is to open all chairlifts apart from Valley View Quad at Cardrona, and seven of eight food and beverage outlets will be open at Cardrona. The resorts have also committed to introducing some exciting new features for their 40th anniversary, including new water stations for BYO water bottles (to help them with providing zero plastic ones) organic coffee and a limited edition Cardrona 40th Anniversary Hazy Pale Ale. Wānaka’s Heli-Ski operators have also confirmed they will be fully operational. Southern Lakes Heliski promised “no queues or crowds, just pristine terrain and big smiles,” whilst Harris Mountains Heli-ski manager Hugh Barnard said “if you’ve ever thought about heli-skiing, it’s a great year to go” with the added flexibility and
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Across Cardrona and TC, the plan is to open all chairlifts apart from Valley View Quad at Cardrona.
smaller ski groups that the quieter season would bring when it starts up in July. With 70 percent of their usual market being international, Barnard was nevertheless enthusiastic about the growth of domestic tourism that is already being seen across the country, and said he expected support from Kiwis who usually took ski holidays to the northern hemisphere or did not ski every year. “All our Kiwi guests are still intending to come,” he said. “Booking in the sector is still strong, it’s just a smaller sector.” Barnard added that there were also set to be discounts for locals and Kiwis, as well as partnership deals for Cardrona Alpine Resorts passholders. And with Snow Farm extending their preseason pass sale until June 18, and Cardrona continuing their multi-day pass sale until June 26, “There's only one thing left to ask,” said LTW, “when are you coming down here?”
The 18th NZ Mountain Film Festival received a high number of submissions to the Adventure Film Making competition from Wānaka and Queenstown filmmakers. The festival opening night features Skirr, by director and filmmaker David Walden from Lake Hāwea. ‘Skirr’ means to fly or skim rapidly over a surface, usually with a whirring sound. The film takes viewers on a high-speed ride with two wingsuiters [flying through the air using a wingsuit to enable a significant increase in lift] down some local mountains, just metres off the deck at 200kph. Nat Warburton presents his film 19. With no adventure activities permitted during lockdown, 13-year-old Warburton headed out to capture time lapses in the local Wanaka surroundings. The Pure NZ session features Queenstown filmmaker, Guillaume Charton. His film (re) Discovering Remarkables follows two local Queenstown climbers on a quest to re-visit their local mountains, The Remarkables, via two different challenges. Both are firsts: traversing the 12km-long ridgeline and climbing 1000m of rock in three different valleys. The adventure is a look at the exploration available in Queenstown’s backyard and an insight into what some locals quietly get up to at the weekend. Local Queenstown director Tom Woodward’s stunning film Building a $12MD Bike Trail; The Pike 29 Track showcases the effort that went into the three-year project. The Pike 29 Memorial Track passes through the rugged mountains of the West Coast and was built to honour the 29 men killed in the Pike River Mine disaster. The bike track cost 12 million dollars, and Woodward eloquently tells the story of the
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Guillaume Charton’s film (re)Discovering Remarkables follows two local Queenstown climbers on a quest to re-visit their local mountains.
track’s construction. Pro skier Janina Kuzma will introduce her film, Peace Mountain. The film follows her trip to ski Mount Hermon, a mountain range situated on the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. The quality of film making and adventures has increased exponentially since the festival’s inception in 2002 said festival director Mark Sedon. The Wānaka Mountain Slide Festival, as it was known back in the early 2000s, consisted of adventurers telling their tales and showing their adventure slides. When one speaker flying in from Wellington was delayed by fog, local mountaineer Guy Cotter loaned a DVD and irreversibly changed the fate of the festival. In 2009 the films became digital, making for betterstreamlined starts and reliable playback of films. Before this, Sedon would introduce the movie, then duck behind the curtain and play them on VHS or DVD. Growth in digital technology and the opportunity to submit films to and attend the NZ Mountain Film Festival has nurtured talent within NZ in general and Wānaka in particular. This year the festival received 24 NZ-made films, with 12 selected as finalists. Tickets and the full festival programme are available at mountainfilm.nz.
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2020 has been an unusual, and in many cases, tough year for business – especially in the Wānaka / Upper Clutha region where tourism is a significant driver of the local economy. So, when it was announced that New Zealand was moving to ‘Level-2’, with ‘Level-1’ on the immediate horizon, Ignite Wānaka decided it was time to rally the business community by relaunching the Wānaka Women in Business event series. The Wānaka Women in Business Series is now being supported by Aspiring Law and will take the form of educational and networking opportunities for women in business that are designed to help them reconnect with their peers, provide inspiration, and build their knowledge and skill base – whether they are business owners, managers or employees. The first event is a mid-winter lunch where Aspiring Law director Janice Hughes will be the guest speaker. Hughes will speak on the relevant topic of ‘Thriving out of an Economic Meltdown’. Having experienced a significant financial shock before (Hughes and Mike Toepfer started Aspiring Law during the global financial crisis of 2008), Hughes believes that while there are most certainly challenges ahead, there is also a way through them. Hughes explained why she got in behind the series. “We started Aspiring Law in the midst of the GFC and we not only survived, but thrived, with the support of the Wānaka community and by building a strong network of partners. So, when we were approached by Ignite Wānaka, we were
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more than happy to get behind the events that we know will help to rebuild positivity and develop creative solutions to the business challenges we're all facing, now and in the future.” Following on from the mid-winter lunch will be a series of coffee mornings where people can hear local business women share their career journeys, the highs and lows, and the pathways that led them to where they are today. Sitting alongside the coffee mornings, the team at Ignite Wanaka and Aspiring Law have developed a series of five ‘hands-on’ workshops that cover everything from developing new growth strategies through to financial planning and building resilience. With a deep talent pool in Wānaka, all of the speakers are local women who are at the top of their game and leaders in their fields of expertise. Ignite Wānaka executive officer, Naomi Lindsay said: "We're delighted to be bringing back our Wānaka Women in Business events for 2020 with a new partner on board. We already had grand plans for these events pre-coronavirus, with a great line-up of coffee morning speakers, a new mid-winter lunch and our business workshops, delivered by women, for women.” "Aspiring Law has been a long-standing partner of Ignite Wanaka and is the perfect fit to help Ignite deliver this series for our businesses. Our theme for the remainder of the year reflects the experiences and challenges we've all had as women in business, either over the last three months during lockdown, or during other times of crisis. Coming together as women in business offers a powerful opportunity to learn from each other and we're really looking forward to connecting in person with everyone at the first event."
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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) have confirmed that twenty new Northlake houses formerly in the KiwiBuild programme have passed their final inspections. “We are expecting the Code of Compliance Certificate will be processed and issued in the next
week or so,” said QLDC spokesperson Jack Barlow. Of the 211 KiwiBuild houses previous housing minister Phil Twyford committed to building on the Northlake development in October 2018, this will bring the number of completed houses to 30. In September last year, housing minister Megan Woods lifted restrictions on who could buy unsold KiwiBuild houses in Wānaka and other parts of the country, after Prime Minister
Ardern admitted that "while there might have been demand for those houses, there wasn't demand from first-home buyers.” “Moving away from the target we think will make sure that we're building the right house in the right place and for first home buyers that were looking for them,” she said. The Northlake houses were taken out of the KiwiBuild programme and put on the open
market, and all ten original KiwiBuild houses have now been sold. According to the ODT, spokesperson for Kainga Ora – Homes and Communities said that "Interest in the homes available has increased in recent weeks and Winton [the developer] will continue to build its master-planned development in Wānaka, delivering more open market homes over the next few years.”
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In an effort to bring a sense of cheer and community to some of those most affected by the coronavirus lockdown, the Wānaka Community Hub will be hosting a Christmas dinner for 150 locals and visitors this Friday, June 19. Sponsored by the Upper Clutha Christmas Trust, organisers of the annual Santa’s Grotto, Wānaka Community Hub chairwoman Yeverley McCarthy said the dinner would be a chance for the organisers to “give something back to the community,” particularly the elderly and other groups isolated by the lockdown. “We are so busy in our own lives but the lockdown made us all slow down and realise that we can get along with all our neighbours and meet a lot of new ones, and that some of them are really very lonely," she said. Non-locals who had been stranded or
isolated in Wānaka were also welcome to attend the dinner, which was postponed from last December due to the outbreak of coronavirus around the world. The unprecedented migrant worker crisis in the Queenstown Lakes District and ongoing border restrictions has left many internationals in Wānaka and surrounding areas without work or means of returning home. McCarthy said that many “kids in despair” had talked to hub volunteers who were handing out food vouchers “just to have someone to talk to.” Those who wish to attend the dinner should contact the hub on 03 443 2071 to register. The menu will include ham on the bone, turkey and venison, a roast vegetable dish, roast potatoes and apple crumble. “We are expecting a good crowd and have been inundated with offers of assistance from all sectors of Wānaka,” said McCarthy.
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The Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, working with DOC, will by the end of next month, have removed 600 deer from Fiordland National Park for processing into 18,000 1kg wild venison mince packets.
“Celebrity food writer Nadia Lim, leading Christchurch chef Richard Hingston and Ngāi Tahu have also designed some simple and tasty recipes to help inspire the recipient families to make the most out of the venison,” said Gale. The recipes are available at: http://www.fwf. net.nz/fiordland-wapiti-area-venison-project/ As this project develops DOC and the Game Animal Council are starting to look at working with the recreational and commercial hunting sectors in other parts of the country to explore the possibility of expanding the programme to other parts of New Zealand. “This is a win-win for conservationists, hunters, our food banks and the public in general. Kiwis just like the idea of working together to help each other out,” said English.
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The Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, Game Animal Council, and Department of Conservation (DOC) are partnering to provide 18,000kg of free-range wild Fiordland venison to New Zealand food banks and families in need. Each year the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, working with DOC, conducts a deer cull in Fiordland National Park removing up to 1000 animals. “Weather permitting, by the end of next month, we will have removed 600 deer from Fiordland National Park for processing into 18,000 1kg wild venison mince packets. These are being distributed by a charitable supply chain distributor to food banks throughout the country. This will feed thousands of New Zealand families in need,” said Roy Sloan, Fiordland Wapiti Foundation president. “With the loss of venison export markets, this will assist with keeping meat processing staff employed and help local helicopter operators while providing protein to Kiwi families in need. Managing the impacts that deer have on Fiordland is a win-win for both recreation and conservation,” said Tim Gale, Game Animal Council general manager. The project is jointly funded by the Department of Conservation and the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation with the Game Animal Council administering the programme. DOC chief of governance Mervyn English said this is an excellent example of organisations working together to achieve an outcome with multiple benefits. “Getting this project going was only possible because of the collaboration between the Game Animal Council, Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, DOC, and Fare Game Meat Processors,” English said. “Safari Club International (NZ), New Zealand Deerstalkers Association, Central North Island Sika Foundation, Tahr Foundation and NZ Hunter Magazine have come on board and are helping with transportation and promotion.”
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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has announced the members of the Regenerative Recovery Advisory Group, tasked with looking at recovery in the Queenstown Lakes district in the long term. Selected via a diverse and representative steering group, the members of the advisory group are a varied group from across the community. In alphabetical order, the confirmed participants are: Annis Somerville, Erica Seville, Julian Knights, Kathy Dedo, Leslie Van Gelder, Monique Kelly, Neil Jacobstein, Rod Drury, Roger Sharpe, and Simon Telfer. A youth position and a chair are still to be appointed to the group. Together the advisory group will contribute to the evolution and achievement of the recovery plan, which will be steered by Vision Beyond 2050. Mayor Jim Boult said he was grateful for the volunteer contributions of the generous and knowledgeable contributors and very happy with the diversity of the group. “The Regenerative Recovery Advisory Group represents a wide
range of backgrounds from across the Queenstown Lakes. The final composition is five women and five men, four from the Upper Clutha, one who will take a district-wide view and five from Wakatipu,” said Boult. “We are extremely lucky that these people have offered their time and expertise to this important work. “The group will now look at innovative ideas for the future of the whole community, contributing to the development of the diversification plan and providing another channel of engagement to help shape He Mahere Kahurutaka, council’s 2021-2031 Ten Year Plan.” Along with the Mayoral Taskforce on Tourism and Short Term Recovery, the Regenerative Recovery Advisory Group will be instrumental to ensuring the district restores and enhances its pre-coronavirus community and economic wellbeing. This group is one facet of a wider approach to the district’s recovery programme. Council is also working on labour redeployment and further opportunities for job creation, community support through the Kia Kaha Queenstown Lakes hub and plans to launch a whole of community ideas portal in mid-July.
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The full event program and the registration are available on the organizer’s website: www.soulyoga.co.nz QLDC to host free chain fitting workshop With winter well and truly upon us, Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) will be hosting a chain fitting workshop in Wānaka this month. The workshop will be run by experienced Downer contractors. They will provide hands-on chain fitting demonstrations and advice about how to be prepared for winter, useful for both first-timers and those needing a refresher. QLDC general manager property and infrastructure Peter Hansby said the workshop will prove invaluable for people wanting to get to grip with wintery road conditions. “It’s important all drivers are carrying chains and know how to fit them, especially if you’re regularly driving up to the ski fields or over the Crown Range Road. You don’t want to be caught unprepared.” Hansby also recommended signing up to QLDC’s Winter Road Reports, which are sent out every winter morning between 6.30am-7.00am.
The Wānaka’s session is on Monday 22 June next to the log cabin. Turn up anytime between 11.00am and 12.30pm. Smart driver training for teens resumes Street Smart, a practical driver training programme designed for teenagers, resumes again during the second week of the school holidays with a new session in Cromwell. Originally scheduled for April but postponed in the wake of the pandemic, the one-day Street Smart session at Cromwell’s Highland Motorsport Park, co-funded by the Central Otago District Council, Queenstown Lakes District Council and Street Smart, will now take place on Wednesday July 15 .Street Smart programme director Hayden Dickason said the supervised programme conducted by qualified coaches equips young Kiwis with the tools needed to help be safer and more aware drivers on our roads. “There is a focus on developing good decision-making strategies for safe driving, including assessing themselves, reading the road environment, resisting peer pressure, managing or eliminating distractions and planning ahead,” he said.
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Diana Adams, one of New Zealand's most renowned artists, moved from Christchurch to Hāwea Flat three year ago, where she had remained very much under the radar of the local community. Born in Christchurch in 1969, Adams initially completed a Bachelor of Arts at Canterbury University in linguistics. By 1994 she had returned to university and gained a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University. This education ultimately led and inspired her to become a full-time painter in 2001. Adams lives and paints in Hawea Flat and is represented by several dealer galleries across New Zealand where she has had solo and group exhibitions. Yet she is so modest, so unassuming that after 20 years as a professional artist, she has yet to have her own website. Go figure. She is only now developing a website with local designer Jo Haines of Spiderweb Designs. So look out for it. The Wānaka Sun chatted with Adams in her studio on the hill above Hāwea Flat and was in awe of the paintings that hung on the walls. They wanted to buy everyone. Here is a talent amongst our midst that has nationwide recognition, but is yet to exhibit in the Wānaka art galleries after three years in the district. So how do you paint? I go through fits and starts. During the lockdown, I painted fairly consistently because there was nothing much else to do. But a really big painting will take me six weeks to do. That is because with the big-sized canvases there is a lot of detail and because I do sharp outlines, all these have to be clean. I paint it once then repaint it making it neater and smoother, and I graduate between light and dark on all the little sections. How would you describe your style? It's all about the forms- I love the shapes of hills and shadows, and I spend a lot of time looking at them. When I'm in the mountains I'm looking for the forms, what it is that's making that shadow. What I love is the feeling of being above – I love looking down. I love the feeling of being on the edge of a cliff, it's a little bit dangerous and you don't know what's over that edge. A little bit risky. I don't always manage to pull it off, but my favourite paintings have that feeling that you might fall into the abyss. I wish I was freer and could dab paint all over the canvas, but it's not how I do it. You have your style, and that's what came to me. I have tried and tried to change my style, but I just can't. It gets a bit boring for me, and I would like to express myself differently, but it's just so hard. Between 2000 and now I think my paintings have gotten more streamlined, even less detailed. I tend to like to paint bigger now. I want them to take up a whole wall, they are more impressive that way, and you feel like you are right in the landscape. Have you always been a painter? I took a year off painting and did a course in Wellington by distance learning. I did contemporary sculpture. But they weren't saleable. It was fun, and I got accepted for the Wallace Art Awards for that year, and one of my pieces is now in their collection. My criteria for medium for the sculptures was stuff you could buy from Mitre 10; I think because John and I were building at the time.
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So how did you get started as a professional artist? I didn't go to Fine Arts School, which is one of my big regrets. I decided to do law at Canterbury, but it didn't suit me, so I dropped out after two years. I finished a BA in linguistics and did lots of literature papers because I love reading, then went to Lincoln and did landscape architecture. I didn't want to be a teacher, you see. I was a landscape architect for a while, but I just couldn't stop painting. I started painting fish with silly expressions on their faces just for fun and sold them in cafes in Christchurch. I made enough to buy more paint. Then I thought well this isn't going to work. What's my biggest passion, it's getting out into the hills, and so I spent another couple of years trying to work out a way to represent how I felt about the landscape I was seeing. It came back to being quite pared down and simplified- trying to keep the main feel while appreciating a place without all the extraneous details. I don't generally put human-made structures in a painting because it's not about that, it's about it being somewhere at any time in history. How did you get your big break? Anyway, I was painting and training for a bike ride, and went past the Little River Gallery [Banks Peninsula], saw what they had up on the walls and was impressed. I told the owners I had some paintings and would they take a look at them. I went back the next day with some work, and I was offered a show. This was in 2000 in February,
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and they booked me in for a show in September. I had never done anything like this before, but I just painted and painted and managed to get about ten pieces together. The show went well, and they supported me from then on with a show every year. But I stopped after a while because all my work was going to them and I didn't have enough paintings for other people. But I wouldn't mind having another show with them; it would be quite nice. Because the show sold well, I decided to quit my job in 2000, and I have been painting full time ever since and had shows in all the main centres. So where do you see the future? Since we moved to Wānaka, I haven't had any shows. John and I built a house, and it took so much time landscaping and getting a studio built. And to get a show sorted, I need at least two years to get my head around what I need to produce. I would like to exhibit in Wānaka, but I like the idea of organising this on my own in an alternate space. The problem is there aren't the spaces here
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for this. What spaces there are the costs are high. The other option is to have it in my studio, which was designed as an exhibition space. It's actually the 20th anniversary of my first solo show this year, so I was thinking of trying to get a show somewhere by the end of the year, and it might still happen yet. I have been storing my painting for this- I haven't advertised them on Facebook. If I put them up, people will want to buy them, and I won't have enough. How much does your work cost? The bigger ones about $10,000. They start at about $2000 for a smaller one. Because I am thinking of having a show it's a bit of a problem, should I put the paintings out there or should I hold them back? When my website is up, I will probably release a few to celebrate the moment. And I will have limited edition prints on it too. They look so much like the originals, and they are a good option for people who don't want to spend so much. So as of today Diana finally has her website: www.dianaadams.co.nz.
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Love takeaways, hate waste There’s just a few weeks to go to Plastic Free July. That time of year when thousands of people across the country take up the challenge to refuse single-use plastics for the month. One easy challenge you can take on from the comfort of your own couch is signing the Takeaway Throwaway petition to help get rid of this common plastic waste without giving up on the convenience of your favourite takeaway. Led by zero waste campaigners Laura Cope, of Use Your Own (UYO), and The Rubbish Trip’s Hannah Blumhardt and Liam Prince, the petition calls on the government to ban singleuse disposable food and drink serviceware containing plastic, and mandate accessible, reusable alternatives. The aim is for Kiwis to be able to enjoy takeaway food and drink without the single-use side effects.
Takeaway Throwaway is targeting singleuse disposable food and drink serviceware like disposable takeaway coffee cups and lids, food containers, cutlery, and single-serve sauce and condiment sachets and pottles. These single-use items are destined for landfill but often end up polluting our environment and contaminating our recycling streams instead. The good news is we don’t need a law change for this to happen. The Government already has the power to act on this waste issue under the Waste Minimisation Act 2008. Sign the petition at www.takeawaythrowaways.nz and help move away from a single-use, throwaway culture towards a circular, reuse economy. Here in Wanaka we’re ahead of the game with the single-use cup (SUC) free campaign championed by Plastic Free Wanaka and Wanaka Hospo Goes Eco. SUCfree Wanaka 2022 has
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successfully implemented the cup deposit scheme, Again Again. The system is simple - if you forget your own cup you can pay a deposit to borrow a cup. When you’re finished, the deposit can be redeemed by returning the cup to any participating cafe. The cups are then washed and sanitised ready to be used again. Wanaka is leading the way towards a disposable single-use cup free future, with numerous cafes already SUC free. You can show your support by carrying your reusable cup with you when you go out for coffee, sitting in to enjoy your barista made brew or borrowing a returnable cup from participating cafes. This scheme proves how easy reuse systems can be, but we need national leadership - like last year’s plastic bag ban - to make real change. – By Ruth Blunt, Wastebusters
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Community zero waste initiatives have received a funding boost for the second year running. Grants totalling $60,000 have been allocated through the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) Waste Minimisation Community Fund to local initiatives. QLDC general manager property and infrastructure Peter Hansby said the Waste Minimisation Community Fund was an initiative of council's Waste Minimisation and Management Plan 2018 (WMMP). "We are delighted to announce six successful fund recipients and congratulate them on creating wastereducing projects that enable our community to move toward a zero-waste future," Hansby said. The fund was created in response to a call for council to support more community-driven initiatives. "The goal of these grants is to support new initiatives that minimise waste, maximise resource recovery and move us towards becoming a more sustainable district. We are excited to be able to build on last year's momentum and see the new and inspiring ideas generated within our community through this funding round," Hansby added. The Wanaka district grants approved through the 2020 funding round were:
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Takeaway Throwaway campaign is calling for reusable alternatives to single-use disposable food and drink serviceware, like the cup deposit system Again Again which is available in local cafes.
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The Hawea Grove: A project aimed to raise awareness about the waste generated from a house build.
Wastebusters & One New Zealand, Better Building Resource Circulation: Resource recovery campaign aimed at trading or donating excess construction material instead of sending it to landfill. The Hawea Grove, Hawea Grove Eco Building Webisode Series: A project aimed to raise awareness about the waste generated from a house build by documenting the process and sharing learnings, from decision-making right through to completion. Wastebusters was "really pleased" to receive support from the Waste Minimisation Community Fund and was excited to be working together with the Better Building Working Group to divert construction and demolition (C&D) material from landfill. Ruth Blunt from Wastebusters said the funding would help keep surplus building material in circulation using marketplace app CivilShare.
"C&D material accounts for a huge portion of the waste going to landfill and it's a problem those working in the local construction industry are keen to address. Thanks QLDC for getting behind our initiative to help the local building community make the move to reuse, and away from landfill," Blunt said. Keith Stubbs from Hawea Grove said that while we were becoming increasingly aware of the pressures our modern lives have on this planet, one thing we tended to ignore was the amount of rubbish going to landfill from the construction industry. "The Hawea Grove is an opportunity to see how we can limit our impact on the environment while building a house. Waste minimisation is a massive part of this. For this reason, we are honoured to receive this support from QLDC and incredibly excited to see what we are able to achieve," Stubbs said.
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Following New Zealand’s move into Alert Level 2, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced that “we can get back out and enjoy the outdoors, provided it’s done safely.” DOC staff have fully resumed field work and returned to offices, and DOC facilities are now fully open without restrictions - including visitor centres, huts, campgrounds and toilets. All DOC facilities are displaying the Ministry of Health QR code for contact tracing so that visitors can keep their own record of the places they have visited for contact tracing if there are future coronavirus cases. There is also an expectation that visitors to conservation land will take personal responsibility to follow the NZ government’s "Golden Rules for Everyone at
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Volunteering Otago and Volunteering Central are rebranding as Volunteer South, with the organisation expanding to the Waitaki and Southland areas, on June 22, the start of National Volunteer Week. The rebrand will be celebrated throughout the week with other National Volunteer Week activities, with a launch event to be held later in the year. Volunteer South will celebrate National Volunteer Week a little bit differently from usual. The organisation has long been planning a name change to better suit the organisation's geographical spread. With Volunteering Otago heading into its 35th year next year and Volunteering Central its tenth, the timing couldn't be better. The choice to launch the new name was a simple one – it is a week that celebrates volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations
and community groups. The volunteer centres in Dunedin and Central Lakes dedicate their efforts to this week celebrating all things volunteering and this year, coronavirus notwithstanding, the celebrations will be huge but mainly online. The organisation has led the way in the Southern region with several initiatives and activities that build on their critical values of empowerment and community support. Most recently, their actions have been predominately coronavirus related, with teams in both Central Lakes and Dunedin/Waitaki/ Clutha supporting the welfare response with the local councils. The development of key volunteering guidelines in the Queenstown Lakes district set the standard of volunteering during a pandemic that was eventually replicated throughout New Zealand. While supporting the welfare response, the focus for the team is to continue to help organisations and community groups affected by coronavirus as New Zealand shifts its focus from response to recovery.
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The young people of Kahu Youth will be taking over Amigos restaurant for four nights again this year.
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For the twelfth time since 2008, the young people of Wānaka’s Kahu Youth will be taking control of Mexican restaurant Amigos. The initiative involves around 20 young people helping to run the restaurant by cleaning, taking orders, making drinks, and even helping to plate dishes in the kitchen. For four nights – Wednesday 17, Thursday 18, Wednesday 24 plus Thursday 25 – the young people of Kahu will be gaining some invaluable work experience at the iconic restaurant. Additionally, Amigos will be donating half of every night’s profits to the Kahu Youth Trust, which has gained more than $14,000 from the twelve year initiative.
Twelve year old Cholula Brown was involved in the ‘take over’ last year, waiting tables. She said that it was “very fun and kinda nervous... my parents came.” Youth worker Richard Elvey said that, “The youth essentially become waiters, bar staff and kitchen hands for the evening. The chefs are still the usual Amigos staff – for obvious reasonsv – and all the usual front of house staff shadow the young people and support them when needed. It's a well oiled machine these days!” It’s not uncommon for each night to be booked out completely, so Kahu Youth recommends that you book while you can. Call (03) 443 7872 to book with Amigos and mention the Kahu Youth takeover so that 50 per cent of every night’s proceeds can go to Kahu Youth.
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The series of workshops was designed to teach the fundamentals of delivering interactive workshops via the Zoom platform, helping participants feel supported, empowered and prepared to engage with their audiences in a structured way.
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The newly-established Three Lakes Cultural Trust launched its first round of free community workshops in April in line with the cultural master plan intended to invigorate the Queenstown Lakes’ arts scene. Three Lakes Cultural Trust officially launched in February 2020, with the cultural masterplan in hand, following input from the community via community feedback sessions and questionairres. Despite the coronavirus Alert Level 4 lockdown being imposed the following month, the trust continued to push forward the key initiatives outlined in the plan, including the delivery of free community workshops, by going online. A round of online workshops, aimed at arts and culture practitioners around Wānaka, Hāwea and Queenstown who were obliged to pivot their creative practices to an online environment, was set up to help prepare them for delivering real-time online workshops of their own. In some instances, this was the first time they had occasion to interact with their audiences online. “In order to help these artists, we reached out to local resident Ivana Bozicevic, Leadership Coach at Bighearted Leaders, said trust general manager Jo Brown. “Ivana has more than four
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years of experience in online coaching, teaching online, and running interactive workshops for a range of international and NZ clients.” The series of workshops was designed to teach the fundamentals of delivering interactive workshops via the Zoom platform, helping participants feel supported, empowered and prepared to engage with their audiences in a structured way. “Within five days of the launch and promoting the programme, we had more than 30 people applying,” said Brown. “Both the trust and Ivana were impressed by the participants’ dedication, passion and desire to share their talent with our community. “The workshops were very well received and we are now planning the next series of workshops for the arts and cultural community.” Studio jeweller Kay Turner said that, despite having never been on Zoom before, the session was “just the inspiration I needed to believe in what could come next. Although I haven't created anything yet, Ivana showed us how to show up, be courageous, stop self-limiting and ‘embrace the authentic me.’ That is some gift to be given whilst sitting in your dining room while the world locks down around you.” All of the workshops are available to artists and creators online through the trust’s Youtube channel. The next series of workshops (yet to be confirmed) will be focused on the topic of grant applications.
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• It is still too early to understand the full implications of COVID-19 and how it might play out over the medium- to long-term. An option was to ignore COVID-19 in our modelling. However, we concluded that the impact of the COVID-19 response on the Queenstown-Lakes district was too significant to do so, especially given our analysis is considering expansion options and suggesting constraints on the ability to meet passenger demand in a few years under the Status Quo Scenario. • Our revised modelling of forecast passenger demand assumes it will take five years to return to pre-COVID-19 levels (year to December 2019) and a further three years before growth returns to forecast levels. This has the effect of pushing the passenger demand forecasts out by five or more years.
• By enabling connectivity, airports make an important positive contribution to regional economies. In the Queenstown-Lakes district this is even more so, considering its geography, a growing population, and an economy where close to two-thirds of jobs are reliant on the tourism sector. These positive impacts, captured through business activity and productivity, jobs and incomes, and local travel, are key factors in achieving positive social impacts such as material well-being and way of life. • Airport development affects people’s way of life through its influence on the way people live and interact. Aspects of the way of life most influenced by airport development are living standards and the character of the town/region. Living standards are strongly linked to income and employment, which is a function of the increased activity enabled directly and indirectly by the airport. The character of the town/
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region is also affected directly and indirectly by increased airport activity. Increased growth in visitor numbers can be associated with larger communities, made up of a more diverse and transient population • Once construction starts on the New International Airport, the character of the area where the New International Airport is located will change. It is likely that the New International Airport will be built in a sparsely populated, rural area. The character of this area will change significantly. However, the number of people directly impacted by the change will be small. • A sense of community can broadly be thought of as the feeling of belonging. Airport development has the biggest effect on sense of community through its impact on connectivity. Stakeholder feedback shows that both business and leisure travellers value ease of travel very highly. This was rated most frequently by survey
respondents as one of the top three positive impacts of airports (53%). • Airport development impacts people’s mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing largely through the impact of noise generated by aircraft. Aircraft noise impacts people’s health mainly through annoyance and stress. Airport 7 development, and people’s perception of the impacts of airport development, can also cause fear and anxiety for some people. Our survey found that 31% of respondents perceived the mental and physical health impacts of current airport operations negatively. For some stakeholders, negative sentiment is driven by concern about the direct impacts of noise and pollution. The MartinJenkins Socio-economic Impact Assessment Report can be found on the QLDC website here: https://www.qldc.govt.nz/ media/0xkdujeq/mj_socioeconomic-impactsof-ql-airports_final_report_15062020.pdf.
Level Heads and Silver Linings
It’s impossible to ignore the last few months in a column like this and so I want to take a slightly different tack than usual by sharing some of the things I have encountered. For me, the biggest lesson for business from the COVID-19 crisis is: how important it is to keep a level head and make calm, calculated decisions.
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Heartbeat of the River will screen to the public for the first time on June 30.
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editor@thewanakasun.co.nz PHOTO: Ruby Burke
This beautiful piece of artwork is by Ruby Burke, a local teenage artist in Wānaka. She is holding an art exhibition at the Lake Wānaka Centre June 20 10am - 4pm. Entry is by donation. Ruby will have her original paintings for sale and auction, plus greeting cards and prints. Ruby is a member of both the Wānaka and Otago Arts Societies. She has exhibited and sold pieces at the Aspiring Art Awards and Wānaka Arts Society exhibitions. She has been a recipient of the 'people's choice' and youth awards at the Wānaka Arts Society exhibits. Ruby is planning on studying fine arts at Massey University, Wellington in 2021, and the exhibition is a fundraiser to help with her university fees. Twenty per cent of profits will be donated to KidsCan.
A cookbook for the ages
Wānaka film and nature lovers are in for a treat on June 30 when Eiko Jones presents his awardwinning film Heartbeat of the River to the public for the first time. And what's more, the screening is free. Underwater photographer and filmmaker Jones was born and brought up in Wānaka but has spent the last 30 years living in Campbell River, Vancouver Island. He has been back in Wānaka throughout the lockdown. Campbell River is the "salmon capital of the world," he says, and it is this that inspired him to produce this documentary film on the life of salmon. "Salmon are the lifeblood and the heartbeat of the river," he says. "They are a keystone species that support multitudes of other life. There are no other species as generous as the salmon. Everywhere it travels, from the vast ocean, all the way to the river headwaters, it provides sustenance." This film is an intimate look at various species
of salmon that return each year to the rivers of North America and features compelling and dramatic videography, taken mostly in the underwater realm that the salmon inhabit. Its is filmed and told in a way that focuses strictly on the salmon and the natural world surrounding it, Jones says. "The human element has purposefully been left out of this story. "Yet the story tells the tale and drama of these most resilient fish in a way that parallels our human story, that of the universal condition of being born into the world, growing, learning, struggling to become an individual, and then ultimately passing on our genes and knowledge to the next generation and then dying. "In this way, the connection is made between us and these wonderfully important animals. Not just as something to serve our needs through recreation, or as a source of protein, but as a creature that is integral to the coast and all the wildlife that inhabits the region." This film will screen at the Lake Wānaka Community Hub on June 30 at 7 pm. All are welcome.
The Council Word Wānaka Community Board invites you to “Pop In” Something on your mind? The Wānaka Community Board is relaunching its community “pop in” sessions this Wednesday 1 July from 12.00pm-1.00pm at the Wānaka Recreation Centre on Sir Tim Wallis Drive. Drop by to chat through any local issues, queries or concerns. We’re here to help!
Wānaka Lakefront Development Plan taking shape
MAC year 13 students, Jack Miller, Ben McLachlan, Maye Hall, and Meg Breen.
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Five Mount Aspiring College (MAC) students have started to collate recipes for their community sourced cookbook: Timeless. The year 13 students, Jack Miller, Ben McLachlan, Maye Hall, and Meg Breen, have formed a small start up business to create the book, and are looking for recipe submissions. Their project is a part of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. Jack Miller (17), explained the origin of the cookbook, “Originally, we were going to produce a cookbook for first year flatters, who needed cheap, healthy, and easy meal ideas, but once the corona pandemic hit and isolation started we realized that the market for our product was not there at the time and we had no idea for how long that would last, so the idea to instead produce a book that involved the community would be great idea at a time that it is such an important part of
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life.” He added that, “Sourcing our recipes from the people around us is beneficial for everyone involved, as it gives the community a chance to get involved in a cool project, and allows for a larger catalogue of excellent recipes.” The name ‘Timeless’ represents the passing on of recipes from generation to generation, giving life to older recipes. The profits from sales of the book will be donated to local charity Food for Love, which is run by home cooks providing meals for those in need. “It would be awesome for as many people from the community to get involved with this great project,” said Miller. Submissions can be made by emailing timelesscookbook@gmail.com. Each submission will enter the person into the draw to win one of 5 free copies of the book once the production process has been completed. Timeless will be available to purchase in print form from sales outlets such as the Wonder Room, the local farmers’ market, and online.
Stage Three of the Wānaka Lakefront Development Plan is taking shape, with a detailed design near completion and a number of artist’s impressions available. Stage Three runs from Bullock Creek to Wanaka Marina and will see the implementation of Te Ara Wānaka (a shared pathway) for pedestrians and cyclists and a separate boardwalk along the lake’s edge, along with wide scale planting in the area, information panels, and the opportunity for community-led science projects. Find out more at www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/ major-projects/
Winter Road Reports are running Our Winter Road Reports are underway and go out every single morning, detailing road conditions around the district. It’s free to sign up, so if you haven’t already then do so now at www.qldc.govt.nz/winter-road-reports
Community text alerts With winter now upon us, it’s a better time than ever to join QLDC’s community text alert database and hear first-hand about any issues affecting your community. We’ll send you a text message about things like road closures, extended water-shutdowns, ice and snow affecting local roads or any other emergencies affecting your community. Sign up at www.qldc.govt.nz/text-alerts
Otago CDEM welfare requests If you or somebody you know is facing hardship due to COVID-19 and in need of additional assistance, help is available. If you’re struggling to pay rent or power bills, or have lost your income and need additional support, you can call 0800 322 4000 between 9.00am and 5.00pm daily, or register for assistance at www.qldc.govt.nz
Mixed recycling back on Our district’s mixed recycling is once again ready to be sorted for reprocessing. Please help out our sorting line staff by making sure there’s no rubbish or contamination in your yellow mixed recycling bin. Contamination puts our staff at risk and compromises our ability to recycle materials. Only clean plastic bottles and containers (1-7), paper, cardboard and cans go in your yellow mixed recycling bin. Remember to empty and wash recycling before putting it in your bin. If in doubt, leave it out.
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Tramping pair didn't know what they were doing Pat Deavoll
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So what's the story with those two young trampers Jessica O'Connor and Dion Reynolds who were rescued after 19 days lost in Kahurangi National Park? Being a tramper and mountaineer of 40 years, I don’t get it. I really don’t. LandSAR team leader Steve Cottle said the pair “did the right thing by staying put, and getting near a water source was the main thing. Even though it wasn’t high enough on a ridge, staying put was major.” What rubbish. If they were experienced they should have been able to extract themselves from their situation without the need of a week of effort on the part of LandSAR personnel, who were sometimes winched from choppers into the bush to search, helicopters, the police, Fire and Emergency NZ, and the NZ Defence Force. At the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the public. Sure, they may have been injured, but it was only minor. Get up and get going, I would have said. What's more, they disobeyed coronavirus alert level 3 requirements when the rest of the nation was staying at home, complying with regulations, and avoiding so much as a trip out in the family boat on the Rangitoto coastline. Says AM Show host Mark Richardson. "If these guys went into the bush under level 3 conditions and I was not allowed to fish off the coast of Rangitoto then I'm sorry, but I want the book thrown at them," Richardson said. He said he was angry and that those who followed the government's requests to stay safe and home under coronavirus Alert level 3 had
every right to be annoyed. "Good New Zealanders obeyed those principles because they were told 'don't go fishing 400m off the shore because you're going to end up getting rescued, everyone ends up breaking their bubbles, and it costs us heaps.' "Well it happened to them, and that's not good enough." "I want the book thrown at them!" Richardson conceded it was great the pair had been rescued but demanded follow up action. I agree with Richardson. This was a naive pair of trampers who got themselves lost, were too inexperienced to get themselves out of their situation, and just sat and waited. After their rescue, they revelled in their notoriety. They had been proclaimed as “experienced”, but this was bull shit. Experienced means getting yourself back to the road end, not spending three weeks hunkered down in a tent on the tops and waiting for a rescue effort that would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. What's more the rescue involved a massive collective effort involving businesses supplying cooked meals to rescue personnel and people donating to the LandSAR response through a GiveaLittle page that had raised more than $31,500. These are valid questions for the authorities to deal with in due course. Chances are, though, that when the credits roll it will be over shots depicting the genuine delight of the rescue personnel involved at bringing the pair safely back to their families. A rescue that should never have happened in the first place if these two had known what they were doing.
Harbison D Deane Constable, NZPD Welcome back sport, we have missed you. I'm sure a lot of you enjoyed watching the Highlanders sneak over the line for a welldeserved win on the weekend. Great to see so many spectators out and about as well. Unfortunately, it's not just sport that is back, but crime as well, as Wanaka Police experienced a rather busy week. On Tuesday Lakeside Drive was closed for a considerable length of time after a Hi-ab truck toppled over. The operator got things a bit wrong, but luckily no one was injured. A female was trespassed from Mitre10 after it was suspected she helped herself to some products and left without paying. Another young male was also trespassed from New World after reacting badly when confronted about a questionable transaction. On Friday the toilet block near the Dinosaur Park was vandalised. An electrical junction box was smashed which controls the underfloor heating. Toilet paper was also set alight. CCTV footage is being examined. It might be a good idea for the culprits to hand themselves to the Wanaka Police before they find their picture on a 'wanted' poster. Later the same day a large furniture trailer being towed south on State Highway 6 just out of Wanaka became detached. The trailer then crossed the centre line into the opposite lane before coming to a stop, on its side, up a small bank. This could have resulted in serious injury or death if the trailer had struck an oncoming
vehicle. May this be a reminder to drivers to double and triple check any trailer to make sure the attachment is secure and all safety devices are working correctly. This driver is likely to face a careless driving charge. Not long after this, a young man flew off the handle after a minor fender bender on Helwick Street. He feared his pride and joy had been forever damaged. However, the other driver was fully insured, and repairs will be successful. Police are working with the young man to address his anger issues. Three people were caught over the legal alcohol limit for driving and now face a lengthy loss of licence and a fine. Another driver was found with a bong and a small amount of cannabis. He received a formal warning; however, police may not be so gracious next time.a Several people were separated from their hard-earned dollars after responding to an email request from a friend to buy I tune cards for them. The friend's email account had been hacked. If anyone, even a friend requests money in some form, it is always a good idea to double-check before going ahead. On Saturday morning, two victims woke to find their vehicles had been broken into, and various items were stolen. One vehicle was located on Kingfisher Avenue, Albert Town and the other was parked on SH6 near Hawea. A reminder to people to please remove valuables from any vehicles parked in a less than secure place. This may prevent opportunists from taking your stuff. The vehicles will be processed for fingerprints, and hopefully, the offender caught.
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KAHU YOUTH by Gina Treadwell
MINI COURSES Its Matariki time again 24/25 June 2020 There was a time this year that we didn’t think we’d be saying this, but thanks to the team of five million, and our own awesome little community, we can once again say that it’s that time of year again. Saturday July 25 will see our Matariki celebrations light up the lakefront for the ninth year with all the food, fire and community fun that happens every year. To us, the Matariki celebrations are a very special thing. It’s about a community coming together to produce something special, purely for the community. It’s not a commercial event, isn’t profit driven and isn’t trying to sell you anything at any point. We love community, it’s a basic human need, and it’s the sense of community here that makes the Upper Clutha such a magical place. I can’t think of anywhere else I’ve been where so many people are willing to do so much for so little just to help others out. Matariki is a prime example of this. Now, in a post coronavirus New Zealand, that sense of community is arguably even
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more important than ever before. It was so heartwarming to see the way everyone looked out for everyone else during lockdown. Giving food, support and help without question wherever and whenever it was needed. Matariki has always embodied that spirit – the wood for the hangi fires and bonfires has always been donated, the sheep for the pit donated, the rest of the food at cost or much cheaper and only koha is given for people’s time after costs are covered. Even our brilliant fireworks man does them at cost. It’s magical and humbling to have been so deeply involved in all of this for so long. Without all the community doing what they do best and pulling together and supporting us over the years, we wouldn’t have been able to create and grow these celebrations. So come down on Saturday July 25 at the Dinosaur Park, and see what your amazing community can do when we all pull together and walk as one. For more information about Matariki or Kahu Youth in general, give us a call on 0275709268 or flick us an email to manager@kahuyouthtrust.or
Wanaka Presbyterian Church, 91 Tenby Street 10.00am - 5.30pm
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There are 4 themes to our mini education courses: • Career and furure focus • Finance, budgeting and legal issues • Resilience and wellness • Family Parenting Employment & Tenancy Law Growing vegetables Budgeting General Banking & Mortgages Workplace Change & Wage Subsidy Insurances & Kiwisaver Adapting to Change for parents & teachers Jobseeker Journey What are normal feelings right now? Family works
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Cromwell dog park could ease off-leash encounters Joanna Perry
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Dog owners in Cromwell are being urged to give public feedback in support of fenced exercise areas for dogs as the Central Otago District Council (CODC) works to allow such areas to be developed in the area. Many Central Otago residents expressed concern recently on social media over encountering loose dogs on walking tracks. Cromwell Dog Park Committee secretary Raewyn Chatfield said she believed having a fenced exercise area in Cromwell would reduce this issue and benefit the whole community.
The comments appeared on the CODC Facebook page in response to a call for submissions on a review of the bylaws covering many aspects of dog control in Central Otago. Included in the proposed changes are provisions to allow the development of fenced dog parks. The public has until early July to comment on the changes, before they go back to council for approval in late August. The Cromwell Dog Park committee has been planning over the past year to develop a securelyfenced park with landscaping, seating, water and shade, which Chatfield said would be attractive to visitors as well as local residents. Among other
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Cromwell Dog Park Committee secretary Raewyn Chatfield said she believed having a fenced exercise area in Cromwell would reduce this issue of dogs on walking tracks and benefit the whole community.
purposes, it would provide a safe place for dogs that need a good romp off-leash, without their owners having to worry about disturbing others using public walkways. A site for the park has not yet been confirmed. “I hope people will take a few minutes to
make a submission through the council website at www.codc.govt.nz,” said Chatfield. “We appreciate the council’s help with this and would really like everyone to support us in creating this community asset for all to enjoy.” Submissions close at 5pm on Monday, July 6.
PUBLIC NOTICE
N o t i c e b o a rd | P a p a P ā n u i QUEENSTOWN LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL PROPOSED DISTRICT PLAN – STAGE 3b - SUMMARY OF DECISIONS REQUESTED – LATE SUBMISSIONS Queenstown Lakes District Council gives notice as of 19 June 2020 that a Summary of Decisions Requested and Web Mapping Application tool for two late submissions to the Proposed District Plan – Stage 3b is available for inspection.
Meeting Schedule for July 2020 Subject to change. Last amended: 11 June 2020 Public Notice is hereby given in terms of Section 46 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 that meetings of the Council will be held as follows, during the month of July 2020. Resource Consent Hearing (Speargrass Properties Ltd RM191205) – Crown Plaza (Level 3), Beach Street, Queenstown. Wednesday 1 July 2020 at 10.00am.
Where can I get a copy?
Audit, Finance & Risk Committee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 2 July 2020 at 10.00am.
Please visit the QLDC website www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/district-plan/proposed-district-plan to view the following:
Resource Consent Hearing (A Heine and E & S Blackley RM190977) – To be held by video conference. Thursday 2 July 2020 at 10.00am.
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Summary of decisions requested Copy of the late submissions received Addresses of the persons who have made the late submissions Form 6 for making a further submission Web Mapping Application indicating the land on which a submission has been made
Community & Services Committee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 16 July 2020 at 10.00am.
Hard copies of the summary and original submissions can also be viewed at the following locations during business hours:
Appeals Subcommittee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 16 July 2020 at 1.00pm. This meeting will be held with the public excluded, pursuant to Section 7(2)(g) and Section 7(2)(i) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
Council Offices: (open 8.00am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday)
Resource Consent Hearing (Wakatipu Investments Ltd RM190656) – Crown Plaza (Level 3), Beach Street, Queenstown. Tuesday 21 July 2020 at 10.00am.
• 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown • 74 Shotover Street, Queenstown, • Wānaka Service Centre, 47 Ardmore Street Wānaka
Queenstown Lakes District Council – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 23 July 2020 at 1.00pm.
You can access the QLDC website www.qldc.govt.nz, free of charge, at the Public Libraries listed below: (please check www.codc-qldc.govt.nz for opening times) • • • • • • •
Queenstown Library: 10 Gorge Road Wānaka Library: Dunmore Street Arrowtown Library: 58 Buckingham Street Glenorchy Library: 13 Islay Street Kingston Library: 48 Kent Street Lake Hāwea Library: Myra Street Makarora Library: Rata Road
Planning & Strategy Committee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 30 July 2020 at 10.00am. Meeting dates, times and venues are subject to change. All of the above meetings are open to the public. Some meetings may have items of business that will be discussed with the public excluded, as set out by the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. Mike Theelen CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Amendments to the June 2020 Meeting Schedule
Who can make a further submission?
Change of venue:
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The meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council – will now be held in the Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown on Thursday 25 June at 1.00pm.
Any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest; and Any person that has an interest in an aspect of the stage 3b proposals greater than the public in general.
What can a further submission cover?
Additional meetings:
Further submissions must be limited to matters in support of, or in opposition to, a matter raised in an original submission.
Resource Consent Hearing (Coherent Hotels Ltd RM191067) – Crowne Plaza (Level 3), Beach Street, Queenstown. Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June 2020 at 10.00am.
How do I make a further submission?
Resource Consent Hearing (K & L Warburton RM181167) – Armstrong Room, Lake Wānaka Centre, Ardmore Street, Wānaka. Tuesday 30 June 2020 at 11.00am.
Written submissions may be made: By Post:
Queenstown Lakes District Council, Private Bag 50072, Queenstown 9348, Attention: Proposed District Plan Further Submission
Via Email: pdpsubmission@qldc.govt.nz (subject line: Proposed District Plan Further Submission) Written submissions must follow Form 6 as prescribed by the Resource Management Act 1991. This form is available from the locations listed above and at www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/district-plan/proposed-district-plan All further submissions must be received by the Council no later than 10 working days from the date of this notice being 6 July 2020. You must serve a copy of your further submission on the person(s) who made the original submission(s) that your further submission relates to, no later than 5 working days after providing Council with a copy. Not sure whether you can make a further submission? A duty policy planner can help - just call Council on 03 441 0499 (Queenstown) or 03 443 0024 (Wānaka)
Expressions of Interest for the Provision of Health/Wellbeing Services at Queenstown Events Centre Queenstown Lakes District Council is pleased to issue an open invitation for ‘Expressions of Interest’ (EOI) from experienced local health and wellbeing providers, for the provision of health/wellbeing services appropriate to the sports and wellbeing environment at Queenstown Events Centre (QEC). QEC is a busy sport and recreation facility located in the heart of Frankton with free parking. The centre includes a fitness centre, spin room and group fitness studio (Alpine Health & Fitness), a range of swimming pools, meeting and function rooms, a two-court netball stadium with a climbing wall and a brand new café due for completion in mid-July. The space allocated for the provision of health/wellbeing services is a 12 square metre room within Alpine Health & Fitness gym at Queenstown Events Centre – Joe O’Connells Drive, Queenstown. The centre is open 6.00am-9.00pm weekdays and 8.00am-8.00pm on weekends and public holidays. All submissions must be received by 10 July 2020. For more information please contact alex.martin@qldc.govt.nz
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Think about those dogs
I sometimes wonder what’s going on in the minds of farmers who leave their animals in a bare, muddy paddock staring over an electric fence at a bountiful crop of food almost within reach, but out of reach. On the other hand, I applaud farmers who have found a relatively cheap way of heating the kennels of their hard-working dog. Some urban dogs would, if only they knew, envy the comfortable night’s sleep enjoyed by those rural cousins. Furthermore, it is surprising, to say the least, to still see dogs with tails chopped off, dogs chained up outside all day with no company, dogs, spending freezing nights in unheated kennels. I doubt if most of the owners of these dogs are cruel. More likely they haven’t given any thought to the fact that dogs need company and get cold too. And as for docking tails; people who chop off a dog's tail to conform to some strange idea of purity are in need of education or a lobotomy. Christopher Horan
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Thank you Mt Aspiring College
I refer to recent media releases from the Wānaka Sun, the ODT and the Wānaka App. I would also like to add my support to the 'letter to the editor' by members of the Mt Aspiring College community in last weeks Wānaka Sun (11/06/2020) It's extremely disappointing that people from within our community have launched a damaging narrative and media campaign against our school, Mt Aspiring College (MAC). This behaviour is hurting MAC staff, teachers and ultimately our children, the students. MAC is at the heart of the Wānaka community. Particularly in light of recent world and national events, please come together, work together, respect our community…. our school community; students, teachers, staff, parent representatives. Hostile misinformed and inaccurate campaigning by a small minority group is disheartening within what is usually such a supportive community. MAC is a remarkable school providing excellent academic achievements, performing arts and music initiatives, community programs, and an array of sporting and outdoor pursuits options to name a few. Yes there are areas at MAC, like all schools, that need improving and growing. Please let the Board of Trustees (BOT), and the teachers get on with the job and support them in a constructive, collaborative and respectful manner. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the BOT, teachers, parents and Wayne Bosley. The BOT: thank you for your respect, integrity and positive forward thinking correspondence you have been sending to the parent community. We are grateful for the many, often thankless, voluntary hours and service you give to our community. The teachers: thank you for your passion to not only provide excellent academic outcomes for most students, but also your desire to connect with students, encourage independence, personal growth and a platform from which to venture out into the world with confidence. The parents: thank you to the vast majority of parents who support the school community, who strive to respectfully address concerns and provide excellent solutions for the benefit of our children's education. The principal: Wayne Bosley, thank you for your commitment, dedication, and pursuit of providing our children with a holistic education. After twenty years at the college you deserved a graceful exit, not one as a result of a hurtful campaign. I look forward to the next stage in the life of MAC; new leadership, a new build, and community supported BOT and teaching staff. You have our full support. S Lyall
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