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Wānaka faces a battle Lauren Prebble

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wo Wānaka local body politicians are at odds over the future of the town’s community board - and so too, it seems, are the polls. A recommendation from an advisory board suggests scrapping the only community board in the Queenstown Lake District, and a five week submission period is almost up. In one corner Wānaka Ward councillor Quentin Smith believes the community can be served by Ward councillors - in the other, Community Board chair Barry Bruce argues “less feet on the ground, less representation”. A Radio Wānaka poll last week suggested residents were in favour of keeping the board but Quentin Smith says his own poll, through his social profile, swayed against keeping the board. “I created that poll to demonstrate that it isn’t a standout view,”’ he said. What the two do appear to agree on is that Wānaka faces a fight if it wants the board to remain. “The Wānaka community will need to really stand up and fight for it,” says Smith - who has vocally questioned the effectiveness of the board. “I’m not advocating for the demise of the board. My personal experience is that it hasn’t been effective. My view has been shaped by my experience as a community board member and I was less informed”. He believes the changes afoot with the Three Waters Reform may see the council focusing more effort on the delivery of social and community services. After a strong week of publicity, Barry Bruce thinks the ‘Jury’s out’ on the board's fate. Bruce argues four councillors and no board won’t be able to handle the workload required to represent the Wānaka community. He also fired a shot at the QLDC, saying he believed the board was not supported by council and ‘shut out of discussions’ regarding significant community issues like the airport and speed changes.

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Barry Bruce says Wānaka will have less representation if the Community Board goes.

“There are 110 community boards throughout the country, all the other mayors go out in support of theirs… council needs to respect the Wānaka community”. He wants greater autonomy for Wānaka, a view Quentin Smith supports. Meanwhile, the QLDC took issue with aspects of last week’s lead story - ‘Town board: time ticks’. A spokesperson said the story did not make it clear that the submission process was five week long, and misrepresented the proposal for some changes. “We feel it’s important to clarify the period for communities on both sides of the Crown Range

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to have their say on the proposed model remains open until Friday 6 August, and a final decision on what representation in the district looks like has yet to be made by elected members,” the spokesperson said. “Your statement ‘Under the proposals… Whakatipu, based on what is now the Queenstown ward, has fewer councillors than its predecessor’ is incorrect. The proposal is actually an overall increase in the number of councillors representing this same geographical area (including Arrowtown) from seven to eight. The difference being the group’s recommendation that the current Queenstown ward is split

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into two separate wards – Whakatipu and Kawarau – to better represent the growth of local populations in different parts of the district (noting that recommendation was amended by Councillors at the 30 June meeting to retain the current Arrowtown Ward). The Council also took issue with some comments made by Barry Bruce and Val Milsom, who sat on the advisory board. “We think it is important to clarify that staff… did not participate in any decisionmaking regarding the recommendations of the independent advisory group,” the spokesperson said.

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Food festival celebrates success Daisy Watford

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Ripe – The Wānaka Wine and Food Festival has been recognised as one of the finest lifestyle events in the country. After a successful first year, the festival has been included in a list of finalists for the 2021 NZ Events Association’s awards. It has been included in the Best Lifestyle Events category, alongside the Wānaka A&P show. Festival organiser and Wānaka resident, Nathan White, said that the team were humbled by the announcement. “I am extremely proud that the inaugural festival has been officially recognised to be what we set out to build - one of the premium lifestyle events in New Zealand.” White, who set up his event development business just two years ago, realised the need for a food and wine event in the region. “I decided to set up Ripe after recognising that every wine region in New Zealand had their own marquee event, while our world class Central Otago producers didn’t have one to call their own.” Ripe was hosted by the Corbridge Estate in March. It featured wine, beer, and food from 39 vendors and a cooking demonstration by chef Nadia Lim. White said that the event was “perfect”, with planning for next year’s festival already underway. “The 2022 event is in the early stages of design,

it will again be held over Otago Anniversary Weekend and we have some changes being worked through at the moment which will make the event even better than 2021.” Other Lifestyle Event finalists include the Dunedin Craft Beer & Food Festival and Kitchen Takeover, Eat Your Memories. The Wānaka A&P Show appeared in three categories, including Best Community or Notfor-Profit Event alongside the biennial Wheels at Wānaka. Jane Stalker, Event Manager of The Wānaka A&P Show, expressed her excitement. “It’s like becoming a finalist in the Oscars, these awards are the Oscars of the eventing world." "Becoming a finalist endorses the dedication and enthusiasm of over 200 volunteers and committee members in supporting the management team to produce this amazing iconic community event," she said. According to Ségolène de Fontenay, General Manager of the NZ Events Association (NZEA), the awards reached record numbers this year, with 108 entries in total. The number of entries were “remarkable” given the impacts of COVID-19 during the qualifying period, de Fontenay said. PHOTO: Supplied “The Awards campaign has grown year on year From left, Ripe team members Torte Lyons, Ashley Wilson, Nathan White and Anna McConville. for the past three years, but we’re blown away The winners for each category will be by how many have entered this year, despite the 2021 category, which has accounted for almost a quarter of all entries. announced at the Toitoi Hawke’s Bay difficulties they’ve faced.” The 2021 Awards celebrates events between Arts & Events Centre in Hastings on There are five new categories this year, September 30. including the Best Covid Response for an Event September 2, 2019 and April 5, 2021.

It’s a third ‘Wow’ show for Arkless Daisy Watford

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A former science teacher from Wanaka has been chosen to showcase her innovative art piece at WOW - the World of WearableArt. It will be the third successive appearance at the event for Ruth Arkless and she is one of two Otago designers who will show at the awards which open at Wellington’s TSB on the last day of September. The event will showcase the works of 102 designers from 19 countries, to an anticipated audience of 60,000. Having spent “hundreds of hours” working on this year’s garment, Arkless said she is thrilled with the announcement. “The inspiration for the piece is about how we position ourselves with social media and how that changes the way we feel about ourselves,” she said.

The designer has made a conscious effort to create a sustainable garment, using vintage materials and items that can be used for their original purpose afterwards. The mother of two, who moved to Wanaka in January 2020, kept hold of the fabric for over two years until she discovered the “right idea”. “I was so determined to make something really special out of that piece of fabric,” she said. Bruce Mahalski of Dunedin has also been confirmed as a finalist for this year’s show. The awards will be announced on October 1 and the show will run to October 17. WOW Founder and resident judge Dame Suzie Moncrieff said entries were of an exceptionally high standard and selecting award winners will not be an easy task for the judges.” “The skills, wide range of materials and techniques used in creating their work is breathtaking and I look forward to seeing the garments individually choreographed in all their glory on

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the WOW stage in September,” Moncrieff said. Arkless will feature in the monochromatic category, one of three new sections for this year’s show, alongside architecture and the Elizabethan Era. She originally planned to enter her garment into last year’s competition, which was cancelled due to the Covid 19 lockdown. WOW Competition Director Heather Palmer said that the show continued to connect with designers “from every corner of the globe - and we’ve seen this reflected in the extensive range of countries that we’ve received entries from again this year.” The show will feature finalists from Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Taiwan. Arkless welcomes the opportunity to meet with like minded people from around the world. This year’s judges include Dame Suzie Moncrieff, Zambesi designer and co-founder Elisabeth Findlay and New Zealand sculptor Jeff Thomson.

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Academy Award-winning costume designer, Alexandra Byrne will also be joining the panel as an international guest judge. The entries will go through two further stages of judging, where they will be assessed on stage, before their debut to the public on 30 September.

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Ski fields bank on the Kiwis Lauren Prebble

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Cardrona and Treblecone ski field are taking a resilient stance in wake of the New Zealand Government announcement last Friday of a pause on quarantine free travel between Australia for eight weeks. A busy school holiday period saw numbers slightly up for both mountains compared to last year - and breaking an attendance record set in 2020. The head of operations for Cardrona and Treblecone, Ewan Mackie, was amazed to see the resilience of New Zealand and the impact of domestic tourism. “Kiwi’s want to come skiing, this is their place, these are their maunga,” he said. But the 12 week wait til the next installment of school holidays is a space normally filled by an Australian market. “Any border closure would be stressful for them to think about,” says Mountain Watch presenter and ex-pro snowboarder Nick Hyne who can sympathise with the two major ski field operators having to deal with the onslaught of stop and go tourism. “We are lucky to get school holidays but August is when a lot of the Australians come over so that will certainly be playing on ski resorts’ minds.” Mr Mackie was not denying that life would be

easier if the Australian tourism contingent was here to keep the townships economy propped, but he believes Kiwis will ‘step up’ to support the ski fields once again. A holidaying Aucklander and residential tax payer put his bets on Auckland to fill the void of the Aussie market as Air New Zealand plays ball with reasonably priced flights from the hubs. “Flights are really good from Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington” said Mr Mackie. “We’re confident that people will come.” This was the case for 17 year old ski bum George Tompkins who arrived in Wānaka from Wellington. He was caught hauling his checkedin ski luggage on the street on Monday. He told Wānaka Sun he always comes this time of year because it was a little quiet. Ewan Mackie said school holidays were over “but there’s so many people who aren’t bound by school holidays - there’s a lot of people who aren’t just set for those two weeks in July”. “Labour Day, you saw people taking that Friday-Monday off and suddenly it’s a cheeky four day weekend. We’re still waiting for the snow to really ramp up. Kiwi’s know the best snow is always August and September.” With the blackout saver ski pass now lifted and the opening of the new Willow basin at Cardrona about to be announced at any day, domestic tourists may come to the rescue once more.

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Wānaka Bakery strikes Gold Daisy Watford

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polishing their skills. The standard of entries certainly seems to suggest that.” Competition was so close that the judges had to go back and relook at entries on more than one occasion, Kersel said. The steak and cheese, and the mince and cheese categories received the highest number of entries in the competition. Stealing the show was Sophead Long, the first ever female to win the Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Award since its inception in 1996. Long, from Euro Patisserie in Torbay, won the overall award for her "flawless" steak and cheese pie. The 24th Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Awards ceremony took place at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland on July 27.

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Luke Henley: back on board Luke Henley is sitting in snow at the top of Mount Ernslaw in Queenstown, and he feels like crying. It’s an emotional moment. After breaking his back four years ago, he thought he may never sit on the top of a mountain ever again, let alone snowboard down it. The 40-year-old from Auckland’s North Shore is back on his board for the first time since his life was almost changed forever on the ski slopes of Norway. To mark the occasion, Henley and a few good mates have signed up for a heli-skiing trip – it was an experience he’ll never forget. “It was amazing,” he says. “In those times when I was so down and struggling, I never imagined that I’d be back doing what I love doing ever again. I thought that was it.” Henley was nervous about getting back on the board after the hard times he has endured. He explained to the guide that he had recovered from major back surgery and he slowly built into the day. He says having the freedom to carve down the mountain in fresh powder snow was incredible. “It’s unreal. I kept saying ‘I can’t believe I’m actually doing this’. It was one of the best moments I’ve ever had in my life.” It was a fitting moment for Henley who has been to some dark places with his injury. On February 16, 2017, Luke and his brother Andy travelled to Norway to visit their other sibling Dave, who was living in Sweden. They were fizzing at the prospect of a day’s snowboarding at the SkiStar Hemsedal mountain. Luke had been living in Indonesia for the past five years, working and surfing. “I hadn’t been on the snowboard for about five years, so I was just getting back into it and slowly building into doing small jumps and getting the confidence back,” he remembers. As the day went on Luke started to push his limits. “I decided to hit the big jumps like I used to do when I was a bit younger, thinking I was still a 20year old and had nothing to fear.” Luke caught a bump on the ramp which sent him flying around 20 metres into the air and he landed on his tailbone. “The pain was unbearable. I was in a state of shock and I was just lying there, I couldn’t move.” In agony, Luke managed to get down the mountain to find some strong pain relief before he travelled back to New Zealand. The worst was yet to come. Henley battled with back pain for about six months before he eventually went to see a specialist. X-rays confirmed he had broken his back and needed urgent attention.

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Returning to the ski fields was an emotional time for Luke Henley.

He had his first surgery in August 2018 where the surgeon cleaned up the scar tissue in his spine to see how his back would respond - it didn’t work. “My back just got worse and worse to the point where I was struggling to walk,” he says. “About three weeks before I had my surgery. I couldn’t get out of bed and I was in total agony.” The second surgery, a year later in August 2019, the surgeon fused his spine. A long journey of almost two years of rehabilitation followed. Henley learned how to walk again and had endless hours of physiotherapy to rebuild his body. “It took me a long time to get back to walking again and to living a normal life – that had a huge mental toll on me.” Henley says ACC played a leading role in his recovery. “The whole support system I had from ACC was outstanding, it was world class,” he says. “I wouldn’t have got through that period without their support.” ACC covered Henley’s two surgeries, his doctor’s and physio appointments, provided him with financial support, gave him a training programme, and modified his home so he could return to work. “ACC provided me with a stand-up desk because sitting was really hard for me at that time, it was causing me a lot of pain. But that was great as I was able to get back into work,” says Henley who runs his own construction company. The day after his emotional heli-skiing experience, Henley is on The Remarkables and sees plenty of carnage. “Throughout the day there were at least four people getting stretchered down off the mountain, blood on the snow and people in a bad way,” he says. “Injuries happen so easily on the mountain and you need to be careful.” Henley’s advice to anyone heading to the mountain is to ski or board within your limits. “Try not to push your limits too much. Don’t get too carried away. The cost of a major injury is huge. I know from my own experience it is much better to prevent that injury happening in the first place.”

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Have a Hmmm’ before hitting the slopes ACC is challenging all skiers and snowboarders across the country to “Have a Hmmm” before hitting the slopes this winter. In the past five years ACC has spent almost $140m helping people recover from snow sport injuries. New Zealanders hit the ski slopes in record numbers in a Covid restricted 2020 season. The Queenstown Lakes district ski areas in particular reported a large increase in New Zealanders visiting their resorts, especially over the school holidays when they saw visitor numbers on some days which topped 2019. The cost of snow sport injuries in 2020 was the highest in the past five years. Across New Zealand there were 12,539 snow sport related claims accepted in 2020 – 7,871 (skiing) and 4668 (snowboarding) – which was slightly down on the 13,780 snow sport injury claims accepted in 2019. ACC Injury Prevention Leader Kirsten Malpas encourages all Kiwis to share the slopes safely. “There’s nothing better than a weekend away with your mates or family enjoying perfect conditions on the mountain,” she says. “We want everyone to embrace that and enjoy this winter season on the slopes. “But our claims data shows us that the skiing slopes are a high-risk place for injury. We are encouraging anyone who is heading to the mountain to take a moment. “‘Have a Hmmm’ to assess if your ability matches the trail grade, and end your day when you start to feel fatigue creeping in.” Malpas encouraged any casual skiers and snowboarders to hit the gym and strengthen the legs to make sure they are ready for the rigours of a day on the slopes. “A lot of people turn up to the mountain – often after a long break – and jump straight onto their board or skis without doing any conditioning to be ready for that challenge,” she says. “It is always good to prepare your body for an activity you haven’t done in a while. “And we recommend that all people hitting the slopes complete a warm-up and stretch. For the casual skier and snowboarder, it is a good idea to park in the lower carparks and walk up to the chairlift. “That will get your legs warmed up and ready for your first run of the day.” Skiing destinations in Otago (30,074), Manawatu-Whanganui (11,572), and Canterbury (10,785) made them the leading regions for snow sports injury claims in 2020. In Otago last year the cost of helping people recover from skiing injuries ($7.6m) and snowboarding injuries ($4.2m) were the highest from the past five years. The 45-54 age group had the greatest number of skiing injuries (1,686), while the 20-29 age group was the most prominent for snowboarding injuries (1,765) in 2020. In April ACC launched an injury prevention campaign called Preventable. It is based on

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research which shows that 90 percent of injuries are predictable and therefore preventable. ACC spends around $80m every year on injury prevention. “We want to prevent harm occurring in the first place,” says Malpas. “We've developed this campaign to challenge everyone to take action to avoid injury and keep themselves, their whānau and community safe and well.” Tom Willmott, Head Park and Pipe Coach for the Snow Sports NZ High Performance Programme, says it is important to prepare for a safe, fun day on the slopes. “It’s a busy time of year on ski slopes all around New Zealand so it’s important to do your preparation before you get on the slopes, to prevent injury and have a great day with your friends and whānau,” he says. “It’s important to know your limits and enjoy the mountain in a safe and respectful way so that everyone goes home happy and injury free.” Willmott is speaking from experience. He is a former snowboard competitor and national champion, has a Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance, a Master’s degree in Physical Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Sports Coaching. He is also a heli-ski and split-board guide and is a fully qualified NZMGA Ski Guide. Willmott recommends skiers and snowboarders follow five steps to staying safe on the slopes: Warm up • For casual skiers and snowboarders, warmup and stretch before you hit the slopes. • For more advanced skiers and snowboarders, use the ‘ramp’ warm-up raise your heart rate and body temperature with some shuttle runs, skipping, butt kicks, high knees, ctivate your muscle groups, mobilise your joints with some squats, lunges, plank, push-ups and head-to-toe dynamic stretching and potentiate for your activity with some movements similar to those you will be using through the day – jumps, 180s, 360s on the spot, then get on snow and build into things on your first few runs. Equipment • Always wear a helmet and protective gear like wrist guards are recommended. • Ensure snowboard bindings are set up correctly and equipment is well tuned. Conditions • Check the mountain report • Take a slow inspection run to feel things out, take a second run to test things before getting stuck in. Awareness • Follow the NZ Snow Safety Code: Know Your Limits, Find Your Space, Protect Yourself • For more information go to mountainsafety.org.nz Etiquette • Make sure you are up to speed before going up the mountain - check out www.terrainparksafety.org

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Click, collect: the new order

The popularity of online shopping has prompted Countdown to announce it will open a new Metro store in Wānaka by Christmas. “Online shopping in Wānaka has really grown over the last couple of years and we want to help service this demand and provide an even better offer for our local customers,” a Countdown spokesperson said. The store, which will feature a drive-thru collection system, will be designed to cater for the online customer market. “Click and collect means that customers can place their grocery order online, have it picked and packed by one of our personal shoppers and then collect their order in-store at a time that suits them.” “Our new Countdown Metro Wānaka will mean Wānaka customers can use this service without travelling to Queenstown.” The pick up option is promoted as a more affordable alternative to a Delivery service. Matt Grainger, Countdown’s General Manager Property, said Wānaka’s use of online shopping was the driving force behind the idea. “Over the last two years we’ve steadily been increasing our online deliveries from Queenstown into Wānaka, with more deliveries and delivery windows to help ensure we can meet demand,” he said.

The New Zealand supermarket chain recently reported a surge in the number of online orders across the country, with an online sales growth of 44.5% in 2020, according to the Woolworths Group Annual Report. “Countdown’s online shopping service has been in growth since we started online shopping more than 20 years ago, but particularly since Covid-19 we’ve seen more and more people embrace the ease of online shopping.” The Wānaka store is part of a wider plan to increase delivery and pick up services across the country, a Countdown spokesperson said. “We know online is going to continue to play an important role in people’s lives moving forward.” Alongside the click and collect service, there will be a 140 sqm store, coffee, ready-to-go meals, salads, and take-home dinners. The store will be the first of its kind on the South Island, and the company says it will create 14 new jobs. “We’re looking forward to welcoming new team members from the local community and providing some new options for customers at the same time,” Grainger said. Preliminary works have started at the Ardmore Street site, which previously housed a BP service station.

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Cup creator makes final cut Wanakups co-founder Nathale Thaipun is one of 10 finalists up for the The Local Impact Award as part of the 2021 Festival for the Future in Wellington on Saturday. Thaipun was nominated for her reusable cup initiative, ‘Wanakup’. She is one of 35 Impact Award finalists across six major categories Enterprise, Climate, Inclusion, Wellbeing, Global and Local. “I applied after heaps of people told me I should give it a go. Looking at past Impact Award winners, I was really surprised to be named a finalist,” says Thaipun. Powered by Kiwi charity Inspiring Stories, Festival for the Future is New Zealand’s largest leadership and social innovation summit. The Impacts Awards on Saturday night will award winners a share of $30,000. Thaipun, 26, started Wanakups in 2019 to reduce waste from single-use cups by providing a reusable, aluminum alternative. The cups can be bought or borrowed from participating businesses. Thaipun says the idea for Wanakups, which came to her in the shower, originated from both her passion for hospitality and her environmental science degree. “I honestly couldn’t believe how much waste there was in the hospo industry,” she says. Thaipun grew up working in her parents’ restaurant. She opened her own vegetarian cafe in 2013, but soon realised it was only targeting people who already knew about the environmental issues and had the means to make changes. With Wanakups, Thaipun aims to make the cups available to everyone, including those who want to make changes but don’t have the means to.

Nathale Thaipun and partner Benjamin Quinn.

“I was trying to showcase that you can be environmentally conscious without it costing a lot,” she says. Thaipun works alongside her partner Benjamin Quinn, co-creator of ‘Wanakup’, and a team of close friends. Together they have created a community devoted to making conscious choices about their waste, and

showing others how they can do so too. “The most rewarding thing is seeing how many people’s behaviour has changed. I think small changes definitely have a ripple effect,” she said. Celebrating 10 years of impact, Festival for the Future opens on Friday and will include 35 speakers, workshops and panel discussions.

New website for Wānaka group

Not-for-profit community group Plastic Free Wānaka has launched a website to coincide with the closing out of 2021’s Plastic Free July campaign. The website, which goes live at www. plasticfreeWānaka.co.nz tomorrow was created with the support of former Wānaka residents Michelle and Nathan Veasey from Envy Web + Design. “We’re just so incredibly chuffed to have this beautiful new website. It’s been a long time coming, and we couldn’t have done it without the support of some amazing people who put lots of love and energy into bringing it together,” spokesperson Anna van Riel said. She says the website “belongs to the whole community” and is testament to the diligent job Wānaka and its surrounding villages have done in their commitment to reduce single-use plastic (SUC) waste and keep the lakes district beautiful. “It sports our waste-free shopping guide, a list of all the cafes where you can borrow a cup if you forget yours where you can find our SUCfree Wānaka bullet cups. Wānaka is doing a really amazing job at being SUC free. It really shows when you step out of our town”. PFW initiatives such as Plastic Free Paula, their humorous mascot, and Waste Free Wanda, a waste-defeating superhero for children are also showcased on the new site. “Our future goal is to swap out our downloadable waste-free shopping guide for an interactive one that also serves as an app. It will be so amazing to offer a resource where folks can punch in a product and are shown waste free options locally.”

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Wao sets 2021 programme Lauren Prebble headed along to the Wao Summit programme launch on Monday. A total of 44 events were announced for October’s Wao Summit 2021 and the majority are workshops to engage participants. The six day environmental summit starts October 26. “Grassroots change is really happening,” opened Wao chairperson Darrin Brown to a full crowd at the programme lunch on Monday night at Federal Diner. Founder Arna Craig said she felt organised for the first time in four years and expressed confidence for this year's programme after accumulated experience from running the previous summits. A large theme mentioned for this year’s summit was the cross pollination of ideas and to learn off each other. Workshops and talks aim to cover sectors such as small business, schools, agriculture, fashion, regenerative tourism, construction and the importance of well being and harnessing hope. Part way through the announcement Monique was interrupted by the confirmation that Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor will be involved in the farming discussions. The summit will open with ‘Narrative of place and how it shapes our people’ with members of Ngai Tahu to speak about the history of Wānaka. This opening will serve as a cultural and spiritual crucible, says Monique Kelly, the other founder of Wao. Tours are a feature for this year’s summit with

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Sustainable Communities being self-directed and navigated solely by bike. Food & Fibre includes a private shuttle to cover the different foraging offerings in the area. There will be many global issues to unpack at this six day summit. “Biggest challenge to reduce the footprint.” said Monique Kelly. “We need to support the community to

make an impact on climate.” Better Building Group and SUC Free Wānaka are two working examples of ideas initiated from this summit which now receive on-going funding from QLDC. The organisers have expressed excitement to see what other climate centric ideas to help lift off the ground. For more details go to wao.co.nz

The Wānaka working group Better Building Group says it will invest a $16,680 grant in running workshops. The grant came from QLDC’s Waste Minimisation Fund which recently received a $60,000 boost to further aid sustainable community-lead projects The group told Wānaka Sun they will use the first workshops - six of them - will be at the Wao Summit. A think-tank product from last years’ summit, the Better Building Group managed to retrieve the bulk sum of the funding from this round of QLDC handouts. The key areas the group plans to provide guidance on is mental mealth, waste minimisation and low energy buildings. Three 101 courses over the programme of the summit targets construction waste and look at ways to reduce it. The group says waste from construction and demolition has the greatest potential for waste minimisation partly because it is the biggest source of materials going to landfill. Construction waste makes up 40 - 50% of New Zealand's total waste going to landfill Keith Stubbs, a member of the Better Building Group, provided Wānaka Sun with a few tips to help get tradies underway. “If you work as a contractor or a subby for big site jobs, the best thing you can do is focus on waste minimisation. “Sort on site. Don’t use a skip. Have a sorting system onsite. It’s really quick to sort on site. We didn't use a skip on my build in Hāwea at all.

Freedom camping plan presented to council Queenstown district councillors were to debate the issue of freedom campers today. Elected members were to be asked to approve a public consultation process on a draft Freedom Camping Bylaw at a full council meeting. Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) General Manager Community Services, Thunes Cloete said there was a need for Council to continue to regulate freedom camping in the district, and a bylaw was the appropriate method to do so. “The Queenstown Lakes District is a significant tourist destination and has seen unprecedented growth in visitor numbers over the last decade, some of those being freedom

campers,” said Dr Cloete. “The draft Freedom Camping Bylaw 2021 going before Council adopts the same approach as the Freedom Camping Control Bylaw 2019 but proposes to amend the current areas in which freedom camping is prohibited.” Following a comprehensive site by site assessment of 105 Council-administered sites where freedom camping could potentially occur, the draft bylaw proposes a number of new areas to prohibit freedom camping in, including Coronet Peak Road/Skippers Canyon Road (to Skippers Saddle), Crown Range Road, Precipice Creek Road Reserve, Moke Lake Road, Rafters Road, Motutapu Road Track End, Hāwea Flat township

and Whitechapel Reserve. The draft bylaw also recommends freedom camping remains prohibited in residential and built-up areas. Following over 820 public responses already received on a freedom camping survey in July, a number of locations are proposed to allow restricted freedom camping, allowing only certified self-contained vehicles. These locations are Gibbston Reserve carpark, Glenorchy Domain carpark, Camphill Road carpark, Morven Ferry Reserve and Luggate Red Bridge Reserve. Dr Cloete said 70 per cnet of the responses QLDC received on the survey came from

residents in the district, and most supported areas which prohibit freedom camping. The Freedom Camping Act 2011 (FCA) allows freedom camping anywhere in a local authority area, except at those sites where it is specifically prohibited or restricted by that local authority. “The restricted sites we’re proposing to allow certified self-contained vehicles have been selected as they are locations where freedom camping can be managed through more specific and identified controls.” If approved for public consultation, submissions on the draft Freedom Camping Bylaw 2021 will be taken from next Monday to September 3.

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In just under two weeks, seven year old Lochie Win has raised almost $4000 for the Cancer Society. With three weeks to go, the young skier from Cromwell is well on his way to beating last year’s total of $10,947. Skiing the length of New Zealand, Lochie and his father Luke are embarking on a five week challenge to shine a spotlight on the country’s ski fields and at the same time opening up the conversation around cancer. Last week they visited Round Hill Ski Area, Ōhau Snow Fields, Mt Dobson Ski Area, and Mt Hutt, followed by Porters Alpine Resort and Mt Lyford Ski Area at the weekend. Due to a lack of snow in the Hanmer Springs and Castle Hill regions, the pair missed a number of ski fields along the way. Luke said that they intend to revisit the resorts on the return leg of their journey. “Worse case scenario, it’s still achievable to come back for the odd weekend when it snows,” Luke said. On Sunday, Lochie completed 23 laps at the Mt Lyford Ski Area, with Stroud Homes donating $100 for each one. “The Stroud Homes franchise in the Southern Lakes offered to donate $50 for every lap Lochie did in Mt Lyford. Then the actual owner, James Stroud, found out about it and pledged to match it," Luke said. Lochie said that while his dad felt sore afterwards, he was still full of energy. “I really like Mt Lyford because I got to go

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biscuiting on the snow. Dad screamed so much. “Mt Lyford was like being in the Swiss Alps, it was magical. “The warm welcome from all the ski fields so far has been awesome.” At Round Hill, Lochie and Luke were impressed by the community spirit at the field. “It’s like when you drive by the lake in summer and you see everyone with their barbecues and deckchairs. It’s exactly like that but with the snow.” The pair had a “beautiful bluebird” day at Mt Dobson, followed by another “awesome” day at

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Mt Hutt. Inspired by his mother, who underwent cancer treatment three years ago, Lochie hopes to support families going through a similar experience. Along the way, they have encountered many heartwarming stories, Luke said. “Years on, families are still living with the pain. It’s something you never get over.” “We love hearing those stories that people feel they can share with us and just letting them know that there are people out there who care about what they’ve been through.” Lochie compared the ski industry in New

Zealand to “one big family”, appreciating the hard work that goes into building and maintaining the roads. “When you think about it, the roads have been made from scratch. That’s a lot of work,” Lochie said. All money raised from Lochie’s North to South Island adventure will be used to purchase equipment for the Cancer Society's Daffodil Houses. Over the next few days, the father and son duo will be making their way up to the North Island where they will visit a number of ski fields including Turoa, Whakapapa, and Tukino.

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Wānaka Fire, St John, and Wānaka Police led a mock car crash demonstration at Mt Aspiring College (MAC) on Tuesday. Organised by Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD), the aim of the event was to raise awareness around the impacts of reckless driving. With stage makeup, full fire, police, and ambulance crews, the demonstration even had some students fooled. SADD member, Maddi Frazer, who also helped organise the event, said that some students questioned whether the event was real.

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“A lot of the students were really questioning whether it was real or not.” Frazer said that the event was an “eye opener”, demonstrating the severe consequences of dangerous driving. “I heard many students say that this will actually make them a lot more cautious when they are driving on the roads,” Frazer said. “It was great having St John and local police to assist the Wānaka Fire Brigade as the students could also see some basic first aid which they may need to use one day.” The Students Against Dangerous Driving committee at MAC decided to organise the event to highlight the devastation caused by

dangerous driving. Frazer, who was the first person in Otago to receive the 1000 hour volunteer badge at the age of 15, said she wanted to organise a dangerous driving demonstration after witnessing one in Year 7. “To this day I still remember it which I guess goes to show how much of an impact it really does have.” Students Against Dangerous Driving is a nationwide initiative run by students within their communities. The students look at different contributing factors including speeding, drink driving, weather conditions, and other distractions such

as mobile phones. As well as raising awareness within the community, the committee also look at preventative measures and educational activities. According to the SADD website, 38.8 per cent of all distraction- related crashes involved a driver who was under the age of 25. Speed was a factor in almost 50 per cent of fatal and injury crashes involving a driver under the age of 25 in 2018. The committee at Mt Aspiring College will be working with police to assist them at a mandatory breath test stop. They are also planning to create an advertisement for the radio during summer.

Second supreme win for Dunlop Wānaka homes featured prominently in the Master Builders House of the Year awards on Saturday Dunlop Builders took out the Supreme Renovation award for a clever and seamless addition to a family home in Wānaka. The Supreme award is the highest level of recognition at the prestigious awards night, given only to the top house each of in the New Home and Renovation categories. It is the second time Dunlop Builders have taken out a Supreme award. With one more they will be recognised with the Sapphire award for outstanding achievement in building excellence. The company has operated in Wānaka for 18 years and employs 20 staff. The company is also involved with community project the Wānaka Community Workshop and supports the Te Kakano native plant nursey. The winning renovation was designed by

Wānaka architectural firm Salmond Architecture. It was a strong night for the team who also took home a gold and category win for the Abodo timber showcase in Cardrona valley, designed by Assembly Architects. “These awards are a snapshot in time, a recognition of the skill and dedication every single one of our team shows every day,” Bryce Dunlop said. “To receive two Gold awards, two Category wins, and a Supreme award is really an incredible result.” Wānaka’s Turnkey Homes was also celebrating on the night of the awards. It was awarded gold in the new home category for their Grandview home which looked at residential builds from $1.5-2 million. “After a tough year with Covid we couldn't be more thrilled with this win,” Turnkey Managing

This home overlooking Lake Wānaka was judged best renovation over $1 million.

Director Justin Carnie said. Justin Carnie is also Managing Director of CDL Building, who also impressed - picking up four accolades for their Mount Gold and Mount Barker homes. The Wānaka based construction company was

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The 2021 Festival of Colour was given a 10 out of 10 rating by almost half the people who attended. In a media release, organisers reported more than 9000 tickets were sold, 46 percent of audiences award the event a “perfect 10” and 88 per cent gave it an eight or higher. And 8.9 out of every 10 people asked agreed the festival made the region a better place to live. A total of 220 performers and speakers travelled to Wānaka to take part in the festival and 2,340 primary and high school students participated in the event’s

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schools programme. The ninth Festival of Colour boasted a world-class programme of performers from around Aotearoa and the largest community and educational programme to date. Highlights included two world premiere works from the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Red Leap Theatre’s take on Janet Frame’s Owls Do Cry, six nights of live music in the Pacific Crystal Palace, and the Windows Over Wānaka project which brought the windows of Helwick Street alive with art created by Michel Tuffery and local students.

Twenty-one science organisations in New Zealand have signed up to being more open about the use of animals in research and teaching. The signatories of the new agreement pledge to be clear about why and how they use animals in research and teaching and enhance communication with tangata whenua and the media about these issues - among other commitments. New Zealand is the first country outside Europe to sign such an openness agreement, and signatories agree to report back on their progress annually. Dr Mike King, Senior Lecturer, Te Pokapū Matatika Koiora / The Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, said the The Openness Agreement on Animal Research and Teaching in New Zealand was an immensely valuable achievement. “Animal research and teaching can only occur if a society consents to it, permitting researchers and teachers to do their work, and allowing others – people, non-human animals, and the environment – to benefit from the results of this work. Without consent from society, expressed through public agreement, and facilitated by law and policy, animal research and teaching will diminish, and any value it offers will diminish as well,” he said. He said there was already information about animal use in research available, for example, through the data collected and made publicly available by the Ministry for Primary Industries, and from some

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organisations and individuals involved in animal research and teaching - “but more is needed”. The Openness Agreement expressed publicly the commitment of signatories to adopt and pursue openness as one of the anchoring principles of their animal research and teaching, he said. “It is unlikely that all will agree on this topic, but they will have the opportunity to be more informed. Animal research and teaching is an ethically complex issue, and informed, reasonable disagreement about it is an opportunity for ethical progress to be made. Animals are central to this issue and should be central beneficiaries of this progress."

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Executive officer Naomi Lindsay has been named general manager as part of a restructure at Ignite Wānaka Chamber of Commerce. Lindsay has been the Chamber’s executive officer since 2015. During that time, she has grown the membership from 120 to 370 members, helped the board launch and deliver the Ignite Wānaka Business Awards, resurrected and expanded the Wānaka Women in Business series. She will be responsible for running Ignite Wānaka and is in the process of recruiting staff to help deliver on the strategy, vision and purpose of the Chamber. The board says it has approved an increase in resourcing and support to deliver on an events-led strategy and to expand its support for the Upper Clutha business community. Board members will also take on portfolios as part of their volunteer board time, working with stakeholders on the strategic priorities and advocacy opportunities, as well as to provide a greater voice for members. PHOTO: Lauren Prebble Board chair Andrew ‘Howie’ Howard said Lindsay is a well-known personality in the district and had proven herself to be a strong advocate Monday the structural engineer still for the business community. “Her knowledge and networking braved the commute from Albert town skills ideally place her to deliver on on bike and even dropped his girlfriend off at her office.. He believes cargo bikes are the future and suggested charging stations for bike batteries could be a viable amenity for active commuters. While the Active Transport Wānaka Concert at Coronet Peak Master Plan has the go ahead from Shihad – who have just released Queenstown Lakes District Council their tenth album - will perform at to start work on a cycle network, the Coronet Peak on August 14 in an Shaping our Future working group want all-ages Night Ski party. The gig to help encourage behavioural change will be free, and guests can also to encourage communities to use secure a Twilight or Night Ski alternative transport methods. pass from coronetpeak.co.nz. “We’re not going to solve the Election result problem at this session,” Annabelle Bob Scott was due to be sworn in Numaguchi said - but she believes the today after being declared winner of topic of transport will require systemthe Cromwell Community Board based thinking and community by-election. The voter response engagement to come up with rate for the Cromwell ward was just “community solutions”.

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An independant working group, Shaping our Future, wants to rally civic engagement around a trending transport term - modal shift - and get community input about travel in the district. Their event, ‘Better Ways to Get Around’ on Wednesday night at the Wānaka Community centre was a public consultation and included Waka Kotahi, WSP and District Councillor Quentin Smith. Feedback from the evening will start a discussion about how the community wants to get around and how government entities and local authorities will implement it. Ahead of the event, Quentin Smith and Annabel Numaguchi discussed the meaning of modal shift. Modal shift has a three pronged

approach with the goal of reducing the number of single occupant vehicles on the road. It looks at infrastructure, public transport and behavioural change, Annabelle Numaguchi, executive officer at Shaping our Future, said.. The purpose of the evening was to explore other ideas “not just whinging”. While some obvious localised topics, like public transport, were barricaded by the bureaucratic process of funding, Wānaka Ward councillor Quentin Smith wanted people to look at other ideas, such as, e-scooters, ride-share, water ferries, cycleways. “Behavioural change is a big part of modal shift. You can have the best public transport system in the world but you still need to change the behaviour in order for it to work.” Joshua Briscoe undertook a modal shift several years ago when he traded in a diesel ute for a cargo bike. On a drizzly

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our ambitious programme. "I am looking forward to working with Naomi in this role as we continue to serve our members." Lindsay said when she joined Ignite six years ago “I knew immediately there was huge potential for the organisation to grow and provide much-needed support for our businesses and local economy”. “I am grateful to the board for seeing the potential for an expanded Chamber of Commerce, for their confidence in enabling me to deliver on the strategy and recognising the additional resource needed to achieve this. "There are lots of challenges ahead and now is the time to invest in our local Chamber and work together to support our economy and look at opportunities for diversification.”

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Toby’s latest tricks this week involve pointing at various objects around the house and stuffing his fingers up my nose. This week, he also went to his little friend’s birthday party and in less than two months he will be turning one himself. It’s crazy to think that one year ago I spent most of my days doing pregnancy exercises and relaxing on the sofa with my bump. These days, I’m lucky if I have enough time to brush my hair. When I was pregnant, I spent a lot of time preparing for the birth; listening to hypnobirthing tracks and getting my hospital bag ready. The funny thing is, I didn’t really prepare myself for becoming a parent. Yes, I knew it would involve sleepless nights, heaps of nappy changes, and a few tears here and there. But I didn’t realise just how much I would change in the process. Binging on Netflix shows and having dinner with friends are a thing of the past. Now, if I can get through even one episode without any disruptions, I consider that a win. Anyway, one of the biggest changes I have noticed lately is my ‘baby brain’ - something I never quite understood pre Toby. Many times I've heard people say that the baby brain isn't a real thing. Well, using my own experience and the help of doctor Google, I can confirm that this isn't the case. My mind tends to go blank mid conversation on a

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daily basis. I find myself searching deep in my brain for basic words. When I try to explain to Tobias what things are and how they work, I have trouble articulating myself. The words never quite come out the way I expect them to. I daydream a lot more and sometimes I can’t even string a full sentence together. If it's not written down in my notebook then it's not getting done. Yes, this could all be down to exhaustion but I personally think it’s just a bad case of the baby brain. Even as I write this, I’m having trouble drawing memories from the last week. It wasn’t until I started watching an episode of the TV show The Letdown, that I started to think about my own baby brain. In one episode, the lead character says that your mind doesn’t always come back unless you train it to. Of course, that led me down a wormhole of internet searches. 'What is baby brain?' 'Does baby brain last forever?' 'Can you recover from baby brain?' As you can probably tell, I like to research things sometimes a bit too much. For all my research, though, I still don’t know how long this baby brain will last. Some articles say forever while others say a couple of years. All I know is that it’s just one of the many souvenirs that comes with becoming a mum. I’m not gonna lie, I get super embarrassed when I can’t think of a word mid-way through a conversation but it is what it is, I guess. So, just like my unbrushed hair and sick stained clothes, I’m going to own my baby brain. I mean, what other choice do I have?

After 20 years abroad, Kiwi country-pop artist Jackie Bristow is celebrating her return home with a spectacular nationwide tour. The singer-songwriter has traded in the bright lights of Nashville, Tennessee, for the mountains of Wānaka and kicks off her highly anticipated “Back to the Roots” homecoming tour in September. Gore-born Bristow returned to New Zealand in 2019 for her Blue Moon Rising national tour and to visit family but ended up staying on as the world closed its doors due to Covid-19. She used this time to put the finishing touches on her fifth studio album Outsider – which was mostly recorded in Nashville – and prepared for a New Zealand tour. “The Back to the Roots tour is absolutely serendipitous for me,” Bristow says. “Like many people, my life was turned upside down by Covid – instead of being on tour in Europe and the USA, I was in lockdown in my sister’s cottage in Waikaia. “But while waiting to see what was happening with the world, a beautiful new life opened up in NZ for me. I’ve been working on new music and rehearsing for this intimate, engaging tour that I can’t wait to share with NZ.” Bristow has delivered many chart-climbing country-pop hits – including Shot of Gold and Blue Moon Rising – as well as her albums, and has fan followings across the USA and Europe. Most recently she has been living and recording in Nashville. Bristow’s 14-show Back to the Roots tour begins in Auckland on September 10 and ends in Queenstown on October 22.

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“Being in Wānaka is a completely different lifestyle and experience to Nashville. This past year I feel I have stepped into someone else’s body,” she says. “But I am loving being close to my family after being away for so many years, it’s been a really special time. “I do miss my Nashville music family and the opportunity to play on the international stage, however I can’t wait to catch up with my Kiwi followers on the Back to the Roots tour. It’s going to be a blast.”

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A regular update from Wānaka Community Board Chair, Barry Bruce Welcome to Winter! I hope that you’ve enjoyed the opportunity to hit the slopes and spend time with family over the school holidays. It’s great to see some domestic tourism picking up around town and an abundance of skis, snowboards, and cheery faces. While we would like to welcome more of our Australian friends at the moment, the resurgence of COVID-19 in Australia is a harsh reminder to stay vigilant, use the contact tracing app and stay home if you are unwell. Winter weather brings increased risks on the road, so please remember to plan your trips with extra time and be aware of hazards. A great way to stay ahead of the game is to sign up for Council’s daily road report – every morning over the winter months you can receive an email with a general overview of that day’s road conditions, sent to subscribers between 6.30am and 7am every day. Sign up via the QLDC website. Have your say on changes to District Representation The Council is currently reviewing how it represents the communities across the district and you have an opportunity to have your say. All councils in Aotearoa New Zealand are required to undertake a representation review every six years. A review considers a number of things including how many councillors are required, geographical boundaries of wards, names of those wards, identifying communities of interest, and if community boards should be established or retained. Currently we have 10 councillors representing three wards and one community board. The proposed structure would have four wards with 12 councillors. Now is the time to let the Council know whether you think the recommended approach will provide fair representation across the district. Head to letstalk.qldc.govt.nz for more details and to share feedback by August 6. At the Wānaka Community Board meeting held on July 8, the Board approved parking restrictions for the Anderson Heights Commercial Area. This followed consultation with the businesses in the area to determine the restrictions required, or otherwise. The parking restrictions convert approximately 68 free parking spaces into 1-hour parking spaces and three loading zones, with 90 parking spaces available in the old Mitre 10 car park. We’ll keep you updated on when these changes will come into effect. From Monday, QLDC in conjunction with Otago Regional Council, the Department of Conservation, Land Information New Zealand and adjoining landowners have been undertaking a rabbit control operation. This involves a ground operation using carrot baits containing the pesticide Pindone in the following areas: near the southern edge of the Clutha River by Albert Town, including Templeton Park and the Cardrona River

Mouth, north of the Albert Town Bridge (Albert Town Reserve), near the Outlet (Clutha River Reserve) and Waterfall Creek (Damper Bay Lakeside Recreation Reserve). Information on safety precautions, maps of the operational area and status of the operation can be found at www.qldc.govt.nz/services/ environment-and-sustainability/pest-control We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who are interested in helping their community prepare for and respond to an emergency. This could be a flood, earthquake, landslip, wildfire, severe storm or even a global pandemic. Volunteers will be part of a new Community Response Group for their area. Groups will have a vital role in supporting their community during an emergency, especially in a big event when it may take some time for emergency responders to reach your community. Volunteers will be offered training and will be supported by Emergency Management Otago and Queenstown Lakes District Council. Register your interest at www.qldc.govt. nz/community/emergency-management/ community-response-groups The next full Council meeting will take place today ( July 29) from 1-4pm. To be kept up to date on what Council will be discussing, check online at www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council for the full agenda and to access livestreaming on the day. The Wānaka Community Board is always keen to meet members of the Upper Clutha community for a cup of tea and an informal chat about issues and opportunities, big or small. Pop along to our monthly drop-in session thenext one will be held next Wednesday from noon to 1pm at Wānaka Recreation Centre. Finally, if you’re keen on finding out more about how the Wānaka Community Board operates and what decisions it makes, come along to our next Community Board Meeting on August 12, 10am to noon in the Armstrong Room, Lake Wānaka Centre.

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McLean B Bruce Senior Constable, NZPD Well, I have been back now for a week, and it has been a full-on week really leading to some big hours worked by staff. More drink drivers were caught this week including one at midday on Thursday. ‘Beer’ in mind that if you are still feeling the effects of drinking the night before you may still be a bit boozed and therefore not fit to drive. I always used to tell people to think of 12 hours from the bottle to the throttle and that is assuming you weren’t too drunk the night before - then common sense would say give it longer. Two males were arrested and are facing serious charges in relation to assaulting three males in a taxi van on Friday night. What started as a pleasant conversation here turned very ugly. On Saturday night one male decided not to use his common sense and wanted to get into the silent disco. The male tried to force his way past and was arrested. Why bother, it will never end with success. One bunch of youths thought it would be fun to climb a fence and use a spa pool. Nope. We have been pretty active with Operation Disruption each day and caught everything from seatbelts, speed, Mobile phone use, Frosty

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windscreens and other driving offences. On one morning alone two of us issued 10 infringement notices before 10am. Make sure you are aware of the speed restrictions especially. We dealt with a number of Family harm matters this week and attended several crashes including one on Stone Street where a parked car was shunted backwards 15 metres and another where a car collided with a cyclist. We had a few more scams reported this week. I advise people never give out any personal details to anyone on the phone that you don’t know. Not your name, address, what bank accounts you have, what transactions you have made, nothing. Banks do not call you and ask for this information. We had a cabin entered by smashing a window, a vehicle unlawfully taken, and another two vehicles broken into. Please don’t leave your keys in your vehicle. You never know who may be around who wants your car more than you. On Sunday night we have been dealing with a group of 4 clowns from north of the Bombay Hills who thought they would be funny with rubbish bins in the Meadowstone area. So still no fluffy bunny, muffin or snowman stories this week. I guess the weather hasn’t really been snowman weather so I will excuse that. Good luck to all our Olympians in Japan. Be good, be kind and remember... Go NZ!

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Wānaka pipped at the post Wānaka was pipped 3-2 away to Queenstown in a men’s Southern Premiership Football clash last weekend. It was scant reward for Wānaka after they came back from two down, levelling the scores with 15 minutes to play. But with time ticking away, it was Queenstown who celebrated the winner, albeit the Wānaka asking for an offside flag. Both teams matched each other for the first 20 minutes, with neither taking real charge.

Queenstown got the breakthrough when a Wānaka corner was cleared to the edge of the box and Queenstown caught their visitors on the break before scoring from close range, 1-0. The home side sought to take the game by the scruff of the neck and forced some fine saves from Josh Shackleton. It wasn’t long before all the pressure led to a bad pass allowing the Queenstown striker to capitalise, slotting home to make it 2-0 at the break. Wānaka looked a different team at the start of

the second half, dominating all over the field and after 15 minutes they were rewarded. Great link up play led to the ball being fed to Paul Hodgson. He cut the ball back for Alex Wright to calmly slotted home for Wānaka. Man of the match Barry Grehan, out most of the season through injury, controlled the game and temp on his return to the side. Wānaka continued to pile on the pressure, with all three subs boosting adding freshness. With 15 mins to go, youngster Toa Roode was

Bowls race continues The seventh round of the Wānaka Bowling Club’s premier winter Stadium event, the Studholme Trophy, was played on Saturday and as usual the eight ‘suburb’ teams were well supported by their followers and this created a great atmosphere in the Stadium. Only two teams won both their games. Competition leaders Meadowstone accounted for Rippon/West Meadows 15-2 and the Village 12-3. Pembroke moved up the table with wins against Beacon Point 10-5 and in the closest game of the day against Rippon/West Meadows 10-9. Not for a lack of trying, both Rippon/West

Meadows and the Village earned only one point each and dropped on the points table. There are three more rounds to play before the Semi-Finals and Finals are held in August and those teams, particularly those in the middle of the table, will be strategising how to get into the top four for the playoffs. Over the years there have been fast finishing teams that have ‘gatecrashed’ the finals on the last day. That’s bowls! Points: Meadowstone 61, Mt Albert 50, Hawea Blue 42, Beacon Point 35, Pembroke Heights 30, Rippon/West Meadows 28, Hawea Gold 24, Village 22

brought down after some fabulous skills to beat two players. Thomas Tinka then sent a tantalising ball in for Allan Carmichael who rocketed his fourth goal in eight games from defence. With both teams pushing for the winner, things began to get stretched with opportunities coming for both sides. Queenstown got the break and sealed a 3-2 win in the buying stages. On Saturday Wānaka hosts Northern AFC at the Wānaka Recreation Centre, 2:45pm kick off.

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Renée Tsang’s plan for a family focussed event with the emphasis on sole parent families is taking shape. After last week’s story in the Sun she reported “I'm so pleased with the number of local businesses who have stepped up and are interested in supporting the cause.” She is aiming to hold the day on September 11 - the weekend after Fathers’ Day - as an opportunity to acknowledged single parents “who probably won't get the recognition or relaxation they deserve on Fathers’ Day,” she said. She said a large number of Wānaka businesses had offered to support the project. “I'd love to see even more local businesses Single mum Renée Tsang has plans for a family day. participate. Any form of help goes a long way. For moe details go to @ Coffee or meal vouchers, home cleaning services, ItTakesAVillageWānaka on Facebook or email babysitting... auto services, you name it. ittakesavillage.wanaka@gmail.com.

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Members of the Aspiring Village Knitters, from left, Avis Munro, Adrienne Dale, Helen Cook, Mary Kane, Dorothy Black, Doris Studholme, Mary King, Patricia Cook, Ann Bain, Delma Guy, Jan Burdon and Lyn Brown, pose with their recent contribution to Aspiring Midwives. This is the fourth donation the village’s knitters have made to Aspiring Midwives over the last year. They were approached by Linda Baker of Aspiring Midwives to see our knitters were keen to help keep the region’s newborns “warm and toasty”, Jennie Anderson of Aspiring Lifestyle Village explained. “This collection of lovely ladies have taken this commitment to the next level, producing a range of soft woollen jumpers, booties, hats, blankets and quilts – all made with a great deal of talent and care.” The wool is donated by the village’s owners and also through raffles and fundraising efforts within the village.

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Cedric Trounson was born and raised in Invercargill and wheels and transport have always played a role in his life. That enduring interest made him a natural fit for volunteering at Wheels at Wānaka. It is clear that this is a man who cannot get his fill of big things on the move - from an apprenticeship at a truck shop, to working in Riverton and Manapouri on boats and busses, to even more enjoyable employment with boats, busses and tourists up in the Bay of Islands, then south to Greymouth as a supervisor at the Port, owning and running a Greymouth-Christchurch shuttle bus service, driving miniature trains at Hokitika and delivering South Island tours, You won’t be surprised to learn that, now retired, one of his interests is riding his motorbike and road-tripping all around Aotearoa on his bike or with his wife in their campervan. Nor should it surprise you to learn that his array of volunteering in the community includes grocery deliveries, Rotary, the Greymouth Community Patrol and Meals on Wheels. When his wife, a jade carver, expressed interest in exhibiting at Wheels at Wānaka 2021 and shared the call out for taxi track and tractor drivers, he immediately followed up and the result was a fabulous week at the big show. Wheels at Wānaka takes place every two years and 2021 was a massive success with patron numbers more than doubling since the first event in 2019. Visitor numbers in 2021 were up to 25,000 over three days compared to 12,000 over two days in 2019. Governed by a Charitable Trust, Wheels at Wānaka’s healthy financial surplus allowed direct donations of $46,640 to charity partners including the Heartland Tractor Trek (Heart Kids NZ) plus vintage clubs and community groups. In total the event helped raise $66,640 in donations to New Zealand charitable organisations. Cedric pitched his tent and helped get the tractors organised in advance of the show, prepared facilities, drove tractors to the parade ground, drove ‘tractor taxis’, and then helped clean up when everything was over. It was “real good fun for the whole week”.

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Challenges running some of the older tractors were offset by a priceless family moment capturing a photograph of his granddaughter on a traction engine his father used to drive. Cedric used to help by polishing the brass. The organisers treated all the volunteers professionally and immediately made Cedric and his wife feel comfortable. In addition to the free hat and an award for “Best Volunteer 2021” Cedric walked away with “a great sense of pride” for his role in the “most awesome event he’s ever been involved with”. While getting to play on the big toys was definitely a highlight, Cedric also expressed “how different being truly involved with an event is, to just paying your fee to get in and watching the action – as a volunteer, you are making it happen on the ground.” He also raved about the “comradeship between all the volunteers” and is looking forward to 2023. When I asked Cedric what he would say to others considering volunteering in their communities, he had a two-part answer. “Volunteering provides an opportunity for people to learn about new things they have never been involved with, hone new skills and experience life in a way that doesn’t come from paid work, while keeping you mentally and physically active throughout all your years.” And, “Volunteering is a way to give back a little that doesn’t take a lot of effort and pays big rewards by giving a sense of purpose to people, especially when they retire.” Interested in volunteering at Wheels at Wānaka yourself? The next show is in 2023 and you can express interest at volunteer@wheelsatwanaka.co.nz. In the meantime, there are over 200 organisations in the South who value their volunteers and at Volunteer South - Central Lakes, we can discuss your skills and goals for volunteering and help make the perfect match. See more roles online at www.volunteersouth.org.nz Volunteer South is a charitable trust that engages and supports volunteers involving organisations and community groups in the Southern region of Aotearoa New Zealand. – By Susan Merriman, Volunteer South – Central Lakes

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Winter Games line-up confirmed The Winter Games programme has been announced in the wake of the continued closure of New Zealand’s international borders. Winter Games NZ has mapped out a smaller programme comprising the North Face Frontier 2* and 4* at The Remarkables Ski Area from August 29 to September 2 and the Sky Big Air showcase at Cardrona Alpine Resort on September 4.

“We are excited to have three world class events lined up for the 2021 season,” said Winter Games NZ CEO, Marty Toomey. “Delivering these events helps New Zealand athletes prepare for their northern hemisphere seasons and allows us to honour Winter Games NZ Founder Sir Eion Edgar who tragically passed away in June.” The North Face Frontier 2* and 4* events are both Freeride World Qualifier Tour events. The

Brothers clash in final Wānaka siblings Kyan and Ethan Prince battled out the honours in one of the Central Otago Squash Championship finals last weekend. On their home court in Wānaka, older brother Kyan prevailed to win the Division D final in five sets. Their efforts were the stand-out performances on a weekend which saw several Wānaka juniors feature. Also in the D division, Harriette Sargood beat James Muir for fifth place and Jack Wyeth beat Cormac Smith to finish seventh. In a tough C division where the juniors were competing against adults, Oisin Corbett finished

fourth, George Sargood fifth and Rui Fukaya beat Matthew Botting to finish seventh in a close five setter. At the meeting, Wānaka junior Oliver Lyons beat George Sargood for the Central Otago Junior men's cup, and Martha Toghill won the Junior Women's cup. The Wānaka junior squash players will be heading to Dunedin this weekend to play in the fourth and penultimate Head junior squash series. Wānaka juniors Matthew Botting and Rui Fukaya are placed first and second respectively, ahead of the other 45 competitors in the series.

2* event will be held in Shadow Basin, while the 4* event will be hosted in the Alta Chutes with Lake Alta providing an epic viewing platform. “We have some of the most adventurous and fun freeride terrain in the country up here and boast awesome spectator viewing as well,” Remarkables Ski Area manager Ross Lawrence said. “We’re stoked to showcase it to some of the

best freeride athletes during the Winter Games.” Cardrona Alpine Resort will host the Sky Big Air showcase on September 4 in the Big Bucks Park. “We are really excited to be creating with Winter Games NZ such a fantastic event, despite the closed borders and the pandemic still affecting the world,” Bridget Legnavsky, GM of Cardrona Alpine Resort and Treble Cone said. For more details go to www.wintergamesnz.kiwi

Kyan Prince, left, beat brother Ethan in the Division D final.

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