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April Mackenzie: It's good for the town and everything we are trying to achieve in Hāwea.
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The views across Lake Hawea are some of the most beautiful in New Zealand and will remain so, now that Spark's cell phone tower plan is defunct.
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he Hāwea Community Association (HCA) has won its battle against Spark's proposed 15m cell phone tower adjacent Peter Fraser Park after Spark withdrew its application to the Environment Court. Spark originally obtained resource consent from the QLDC for the tower in August 2019.
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Todd and Walker Law appealed the decision on behalf of HCA to the Environment Court. When approached by The Wānaka Sun Spark responded: “Spark has withdrawn its resource consent to Queenstown Lakes District Council for the Hāwea Township site, and the Environment Court has approved this. “This is because Spark’s network requirements for Hāwea have changed since it made the application, as a result of the
termination of the lease for the existing rural Hāwea site. “It has identified an alternative approach that will not require the Hāwea township site and is working on this now.” Immediate past chair of HCA April Mackenzie said, "We are very thrilled about that result. It's good for the town and everything we are trying to achieve in Hāwea by community power. The law firm picked it
up at the appeal stage, and we are very grateful for their assistance." Todd and Walker Law worked the case pro bono. Spark corporate relations partner Cassie Arauzo said the Lake Hāwea area had seen an "unprecedented increase in data usage" of nearly 500 per cent in the last two years. Spark had only one cell site in Lake Hāwea, which was reaching capacity levels. Continued on page3
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The cultural masterplan intended to invigorate the Queenstown Lakes’ arts scene was unveiled at the official launch of the Three Lakes Cultural Trust at the Queenstown Contemporary Gallery last Friday. Trust chair Bill Moran said the launch event was a tremendous success and the draft cultural masterplan was well received. The trust commissioned international experts Adrian Ellis & Associates (AEA) to produce the plan last year. Based on analysis of current cultural provision, a public survey and community consultation, AEA identified current gaps in provision and outlined recommendations, which the trust will test to establish key priorities for the next few years. Recommendations included investing in infrastructure and opportunities for creative development, including after-school programmes and cultural spaces. Speaking at the event, Mayor Jim Boult acknowledged the hard work that had gone into developing the plan. “Our district is known as the ‘adventure capital’ of the world. For a variety of reasons, however, the arts have always struggled to find their rightful place in the spotlight,” he said. “The development of a cultural masterplan will be a legacy project which will enhance the district for generations.” The Three Lakes Cultural trust is seeking feedback on the cultural masterplan from via Community Voice meetings next month. The Wānaka session will be held on March 18 at the Lake Wānaka Centre from 6 pm to 8 pm, and
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As well as revealing the region’s first-ever independent plan for arts and cultural provision, the event showcased some of the Queenstown Lakes’ diverse talent, including Flame Entertainment performers (pictured).
feedback can also be submitted by email. “Instigating change is a collaborative process and we want to ensure we accurately represent the needs of the communities,” said Moran. “This comprehensive plan is an exciting first step in the creation of a dynamic, sustainable and worldclass cultural life.” The Masterplan can be viewed online at www.threelakesculturaltrust.co.nz.
Coastguard Wānaka Lakes’ is inching closer towards relocating its base to Eely Point. Last week, the volunteer marine search and rescue unit lodged an application with the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent to construct a building at the southeast end of Eely Point recreation reserve, near the scout den. The intention is for this to house the organisation's rescue boat and gear, with room for a boat and equipment storage to be used by the Queenstown Lakes District Council harbourmaster. The building would also include an operational and training room for coastguard and harbourmaster operations as well as a toilet and kitchen facilities. In support of the application, Coastguard Wānaka Lakes president Jonathan Walmisley said
Changing how we manage Otago’s water Otago Regional Council is responsible for managing Otago’s land, coast, air and water resources on behalf of the community, for our future. There’s a lot going on with Otago’s freshwater so here’s an update, including how you can be involved. A review by the Minister for the Environment found issues with our current water planning documents so we’re making some short-term fixes by plan changes while we develop a new fit-for-purpose Regional Policy Statement and Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP). What is Plan Change 6AA? What is the Water Permits Plan Change (WPPC)? This plan change has extended the date for complying This plan change creates a simplified resource consent with rural water quality discharge thresholds for nitrogen, process to manage water permits and deemed permits phosphorus and E. coli from 1 April 2020 to 1 April 2026. (historic water permits), while a new planning framework This allows time to prepare the ground for further, more is developed for how freshwater is taken and used. This robust changes. In the meantime ORC will bring in new simplified process will allow for short-term water permits rules through the Water Quality Plan Change (formerly to be granted until the LWRP is operative. known as the “Omnibus”). 6AA Council WPPC 6AA Notified Mar 2019
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the number of boats launching at Roys Bay and Glendhu Bay was expected to grow. The Wānaka coastguard is based at the A&P Showgrounds, equipment is stored at volunteers’ homes and deployment times can be over an hour. Volunteers must cross town to get to the vessel and get the vessel back across town to launch at the marina. "A site on the east side of the lake will reduce the deployment time and increase the chance of survivability of a person in the water," Walmisley said. The proposed building will be a single-gable form with a lean-to. The unit has approval from the Wānaka Community Board and the council for the building and landscaping. The council has agreed to grant a 33-year ground lease to enable the construction and operation of the Marine Rescue Centre building.
Have your say The best way to influence what goes into plans and regional policy statements is to make a submission once a Regional Policy Statement plan change or new plan is publicly notified. Anyone can make a submission, either as an individual or a group. There are some minimum requirements and your submission must be in the prescribed form. For more info, head to www.orc.govt.nz/submission What is the Water Quality Plan Change (WQPC)? (formerly “Omnibus”) Our water and waste regional plans need to be strengthened to protect our environment. We’re proposing several changes to these plans to provide clear environmental management requirements until the new LWRP is in place. RPS Operative
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Jargon decoder! “Consultation” is an active process where councils communicate formally and informally with stakeholders. “Notified” is when a council informs the public about a plan change by placing a public notice in relevant newspapers. In Otago, this is the Otago Daily Times. A “submission” is a written statement supporting or opposing a plan change or new plan. A “hearing” is a formal meeting that gives people the chance to have their say about what a council is proposing.
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The jury is very much out on whether the coronavirus, which has been contracted by 90,000 people worldwide and caused 3000 deaths, is affecting tourism in the Upper Clutha. The number of Chinese tourists entering New Zealand "has slowed to a dribble" said Wanaka Parasailing owner Jeno Hezinger. "It is affecting everyone." "We are down very much, but what can I do. I'm not going to cry, and I'm pretty sure we haven't reached the bottom yet. I think it's going to go lower - its a disaster." Tim Cuthbertson of Lake Wanaka Cruises also expressed dismay. "Yes, of course, we have missed the business that 17,000 Chinese visitors would usually bring especially for the Chinese New Year period,' he said. "We have also noticed a drop in other SE Asian markets because people there are scared to travel. "Some of our trade customers have also experienced partial or complete cancellations of tour groups from countries such as Taiwan and Japan. "We have grown our business year on year, so I don't have hard numbers to compare against, but we are certainly missing travellers from India, USA, UK and Europe as well." However, Wanaka Explore operators who offer boat and 4WD tours said the last month had been positive for them. "We don't get a lot of Chinese, mainly Kiwis and I think priced at $125 we are within the Kiwi budget," they said. Lakeland Wanaka, which offers water-based outdoor activities, said: "it was too early to say." "We would have to wait until we could review January and Februarys statistics against previous years. This month is weather dependant anyway, and we wouldn't want to say whether we have
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17,000 Chinese visit New Zealand each year and a large number of these come to Wanaka. Are we feeling the effects of their absence?
been significantly affected yet. "We get waves of people from different nations depending on the time of year. At certain times of the year, we get a lot of Aussies, but for the rest of the year, it's hard to measure. It depends on holidays, flight sales, public holidays. There are lots of reasons why people travel and not necessarily reasons that we can track," they said. Dave Vass of Deep Canyon said they weren’t seeing a drop-off in client numbers.” We don’t really cater to the Asian market,” he said. A spokesperson for Lake Wanaka Tourism (LWT) James Helmore said,” Initial feedback we have received indicates that businesses are experiencing varied impact from Covid-19 dependant on their market mix. “While businesses are noticing an obvious downturn in our Chinese visitor numbers, some are also observing an increase from other international markets. “LWT is currently surveying businesses to better understand the situation. Our national tourism body, Tourism New Zealand is encouraging businesses to provide feedback on the impacts they are facing and to review their short term strategies to focus on other markets where possible until travel restrictions are lifted.” At this stage it is too early to determine the long term effects at a global, national and regional level.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) is awaiting post-mortem results to determine the cause of death of six kea in the Matukituki Valley following a recent aerial 1080 predator control operation. DOC worked with the Kea Conservation Trust to recover the dead kea. These were sent to Wildbase at Massey University and Maanaki Whenua Landcare Research for post-mortem and toxicology testing. Results were expected later this week. The birds were among 12 kea monitored by the Kea Conservation Trust to study the impact of predators, with six birds confirmed alive since the DOC operation on February 11. DOC was concerned the tracked kea might have been exposed to human food around the tramping huts in the valley. This made them more vulnerable to picking up 1080 cereal baits, said DOC threats director Amber Bill. "While we are confident that predator control operations benefit kea populations at large, it's upsetting to lose six birds. "We won't know the cause of death until we get post-mortem and toxicology results back." Bill said the Matukituki predator control operation followed DOC's code of practice to mitigate risks to kea from 1080 and ensure they benefited from stoat control after a forest mast. "Last year's forest mast was the biggest in 40 years. That fueled rodent plagues and a spike in stoat numbers and posed a serious threat to
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Six kea are reported dead in the Matukituki Valley.
ground-nesting kea and other native wildlife." Research showed that kea populations were better off when aerial 1080 was used to control rats and stoats, with increased survival and nesting success. "Our work to mitigate the risk to kea from 1080 is based on extensive research, and the results of 222 monitored kea through 19 aerial 1080 operations at 12 South Island sites," Bill said. "This research shows the risk of 1080 to kea in remote areas is low but increases markedly with birds that have learnt to scavenge for human food." DOC was trying to reduce the risk to individual kea by reviewing its predator control and kea mitigation standards based on the best science available, including new kea studies, Bill said. The Department was scoping social science research to inform a public campaign to discourage people from feeding kea and other interaction that could lead to scrounging behaviour.
Cellphone tower shadow lifts over Lake Hāwea Continued from page 1 MacKenzie said at the time of the resource consent hearing the concern the association had with Spark, wasn't that extra cell coverage would be required for a burgeoning population but that the placement of the tower was in a location that obscured views and ruined the number one attraction of living in Hāwea – the mountain and lake scapes. It would have obscured views of Mt Maude, Grandview Mountain and Breast Peak. At the resource consent hearing MacKenzie and commissioners Bob Nixon and David Whitney all expressed concern about what additional antenna would be added over time. "3G and 4G we know, but what will 5G kit look like?" commissioner Whitney had asked. They also asked whether other service providers needed their towers or could they co-locate their antenna on this mast – to which Spark had said that other providers would need to submit their consent applications. "Once council approves this mast, we are obliged to approve Vodafone and Two Degrees otherwise we would be accused of being anticompetitive," commissioner Nixon had said. About 20 submissions were received opposing the tower, some residents providing photos from their home showing how the mast would affect their view. The lack of consultation between Spark and HCA had also driven a large part of the discontent. Spark had reportedly requested to insert some information into the monthly HCA newsletter. "We were specifically asked not to indicate to
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the community what sites were being considered – yet they had already made a resource application for a site,” MacKenzie had said in her submission. "We naively went along with their suggestion because we thought that they were going to genuinely allow us to work with them to find suitable locations; once they shared with us what it was, they were trying to achieve. That never happened." "The current tower at Timaru Creek provides very good service to Hāwea area; a similar tower out of the town, practically invisible could meet the need that Spark says exists. But Spark would not share information or work with us," she had said. HCA was keen to find alternative sites but was not given any data or shown the red and blue circles [which demarcate frequency suitability]. All the sites suggested by HCA sat outside the area where users required coverage and were therefore not fit for purpose Spark had said. "The decision for the site to be located on Capell Ave was made after six months of extensive review from a range of experts." The analysis of other sites, such as the fire station, demonstrated a lack of understanding by Spark regarding the town and an unwillingness to engage with the HCA properly, Mackenzie said. Spark would not send a team to visit sites with HCA or provide coverage or capacity data when asked for. HCA concluded Spark had not tested suggested alternative sites and was unwilling to work with it to search for sites. Mackenzie said she believed Spark had chosen an alternative site "but we don't know where that is."
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New Zealand Police have confirmed that the other person who was found dead on the Makarora River in the Mount Aspiring National Park on Saturday, February 8 was 20-year-old Ashwini Rasiwala, from France.A spokesperson for the Police said their thoughts were with her family and friends at this difficult time. The bodies were found upstream from the
Makarora and Young rivers confluence, after what is believed to have been a tramping accident. One week later, on February 14, the body of British tramper Stephanie Simpson was found in the Pyke Creek area of the national park after a five-day search. She was identified as missing when she failed to return to work in Wānaka following a weekend hiking trip in the park. The three tragic deaths followed extreme weather and flooding in the region, which resulted in the closure of 75 tracks from Fiordland to the southern end of Mount Aspiring National Park.
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Funding applications for the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) 's Waste Minimisation Community Fund opened on Monday. The fund, in its second year, has $60,000 up for grabs to support waste minimisation initiatives in the Queenstown Lakes district. "Last year's funding recipients led the charge and showed what can be achieved at a community level. Initiatives like Waste Free Wanda, Plastic Free Wānaka's 'SUC, Free Wānaka' single-use cup project and Sustainable Queenstown's Disrupt solution have already made a huge contribution to our vision of becoming a zero-waste district," QLDC's general manager property and
infrastructure Peter Hansby said. The goal of the 2020 fund was to support further new community-driven waste minimisation initiatives that complement and enhance existing programmes, address gaps or create new opportunities. "This year we have an additional $10,000 to allocate thanks to a new commercial category sponsored by council's solid waste services contractor, Waste Management NZ Ltd," Hansbury said. "Tell us about the waste challenge you want to address and your proposed solution. No matter how big or small your idea is, we'd love to hear from you." The fund is open to community groups, businesses, iwi/Māori organisations, educational institutions and other community-based organisations operating in the Queenstown Lakes District.
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Applications are open for the Otago Regional Council (ORC) ECO Fund (Environment Community Otago) to support community-driven projects that protect and enhance Otago’s environment. Any group in the Otago region working on projects that protect, enhance and promote the environment – from community groups to educational institutes and incorporated societies – can apply for support.
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The Luggate sawmill at 60 Church Road will cease all activity for the owners of the site, Alpine Deer Holdings, to clear the area for redevelopment. Tenant Skip Johnston told the Otago Daily Times last week that his lease would be terminated in July, and he was looking for a new site for the firewood business that he operates from the mill. Alpine Deer, a deer product company with a facility next to the mill on Church Road, purchased the land that the mill sits on in 2017. Managing director Hugh Signal told the Wānaka Sun that the organisation had “long-term plans for the site to support our existing operations at 50 Church Road.” He added, “Given the extensive history of operations at the sawmill, it is necessary to cease all activity on the site to initiate remedial works. We
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All activity at the Luggate sawmill will cease in July to make way for redevelopment.
will understand more about what redevelopment can be carried out and over what timeframes once we quantify the remedial works required.” The land is currently zoned as rural industrial. The Luggate sawmill originally closed in 2009 but was subsequently reopened by directors Johnston and Gerard Haggard as Upper Clutha Sawmill & Wānaka Firewood Ltd, to continue supplying timber for the district's landscaping and construction industries.
In the 2019-20 financial year, ORC moved from three annual rounds of funding to two. This will be the second round for the year, with over $132,000 available. The ECO Fund supports not only shovel time, but also administrative support. Potential applicants are encouraged to get in touch for advice and information on eligibility before lodging their application. After the application period closes, a decision panel of councillors will choose how to distribute funds to the successful applicants.
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As of January this year, Wanaka Primary School has officially become Wānaka Primary School (adding the Māori tohutō - or macron) in conjunction with the revamping of their website. The move came as a part of the school’s cultural responsiveness target and was brought into use with the new website to start the new decade fresh. School principal Wendy Bamford said that. “Last year the QLDC had the macron in their draft annual plan. We decided - along with our Te Reo and Tikanga tutor Mary Anne Tamati - that the beginning of this year was a good time to make the change and then embed the macron in future documentation,” and added that school uniforms would be amended in the future “gradually.” The tohutō was fundamental in the naming of new primary school Te Kura O Take Kārara, where students are taught about the proper use of Te Reo with the hope that this will grow them into multicultural, diversity accepting people.
Bamford also stipulated, “We are and have always been a culturally responsive school - our school identity is not impacted by the macron at all, it is our logo, vision, values and global competencies we focus on that makes up our school identity. A school identity or culture is a living thing and is based on learning relationships within the school and it's learning community. It is essentially our taha wairua - the simple addition of a macron does not change this.” Many local groups, organisations, and businesses are switching to using the tohutō, as it is recognised as the correct way to spell Māori words (including the Wānaka Sun in September 2019). Additionally, the New Zealand Geographic Board made over 800 Māori place names official (with tohutō and all) in June of last year, Lake Wānaka being one of them. This feature of the Māori language is actually very significant in the function of how one can articulate certain ideas through Te Reo. For instance, “he keke māu” means, “would you like some cake?” whereas “he kēkē māu” is far less appealing: “would you like some armpit?” No thanks.
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A dramatic cloud formation taken from Albert Town towards Mt Maude. I knew at the time it would lend itself to monochrome formatting as the texture in the clouds was the significant feature.
Black and white photos have the power to transform even a mundane scene into a fascinating image. Stripped of the distracting influence of colour the picture becomes a study of pure graphical composition. We should try to train ourselves to ‘see’ in monochrome by viewing the world in terms of tones, textures and graphical elements. When an image is shot in monochrome all colours are turned into black and white and numerous shades of grey so complementary colours turn the same shade of grey and do not work with each other as they do in colour photos but instead blend with each other. In a monochrome picture, we ideally want solid blacks, solid whites and a variation of greys to produce a dramatic image. Not all subjects benefit from being shot in monochrome. If the colour is the main emphasis of a photo keep it in colour. With colour being removed from the picture strong graphic lines, repeating patterns shapes, texture and form become more distinctive. Arrange the photograph so that the graphical elements make these parts of the image
stand out. Textured subjects look great shot in black and white and can be greatly affected by lighting conditions. Every great shot is dependent on light and in black and white images this is even more critical. With colour removed it is the variation in tones that define the image as monochrome pictures are based on their range of tonality. This factor was not lost in Rod Maclead’s photo ‘Nor-west sky.’ Rod saw the dramatic cloud formation taken from Albert Town towards Mt Maude. He knew it would look great in monochrome as the texture in the cloud was the outstanding feature. Rod took the shot using a Canon EOS80D camera, with the aperture set at f9, shutter speed 1/50sec and ISO 200. Wanaka Camera Club is dedicated to helping improve the skills of anyone interested in photography. If you know nothing about photography come along and see what we can do for you. Our next meeting is Monday 9th March 7.30 pm at The St John’s Rooms, Link Way. – By Rod Macleod
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28 days, the only time I saw another bird with her was on the last days of January during courtship and mating. She had incubated her eggs for close to 28 days, and then, when they should have hatched, she walked off. The embryos were not full term and my estimate was that they failed at three weeks. She would have known that her chicks were not alive at that time. Grebe chicks are remarkably vocal and it is possible to hear them peeping at least three to four days prior to hatching. The statistics for 2019-2020 are not good. There were 19 breeding attempts and 55 eggs were laid. Eighteen chicks were hatched but 31 eggs were collected of which 11 were fertile. – By Matt Sandford & John Darby
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Young Matt Sandford has been with the grebe programme for a number of years and this last week he was my right-hand man for nest checking. This is Matt’s take on the process. “A mystery because you don’t know if the grebe will hop off or defend itself for survival. Painful because their beaks are sharp and quick. When you first approach they start making the grebe growl and start shaking. They bring their heads forward and give you an evil glare. They try and make themselves bigger, puff up and quiver. Their glare is so hard you can’t turn back and then you have to put your hand towards them so you can slightly lift them to look under. It is a relief to finally get your hand under them and out of their pecking range, away from the stabbing flesh piercing beaks. They are so soft underneath. They stay on their eggs heaps but sometimes they hop off. They growl and get back on as soon as you leave. I’m not sure if I am more relieved to count eggs with a grebe staying on the nest or hopping off- it’s a mystery”. There is an equal mystery as we check nests about a week after our calculated hatch dates to see what has happened and how many eggs have hatched. It is then that we collect unhatched eggs. My hopes for this season rested on the one remaining nest to be found on platform three. The number of eggs she had laid, four, suggested that it was not the first time she had bred and she seemed to have been steadfast for almost all of the last four weeks. She was there on the February 27 and gone by February 28 and much to my surprise all four eggs were still in the nest. They were muddied and cold. Throughout the incubation span of some 26-
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Thanks to the farmers for walking access Thank you very much to the farmers, landowners, organisations and individuals who have opened up public walking access to such a lot of beautiful land over the past few decades. I love being able to visit places I used to just wish I could. I really appreciate the generosity, goodwill and hard work. Clare Fraser Wānaka
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Airport expansion a massive gamble The $400 million Wānaka airport expansion proposal is a massive gamble, due to the risk to tourism from the predicted great alpine fault earthquake. The quake will cause widespread infrastructure and landscape damage affecting the viability of the whole tourist industry. The exact timing is unknown, but geologists know is it is overdue, with the last quake in 1717 and about 300 years on average between quakes. The fault will likely rupture from Milford Sound to Hokitika, generating a magnitude 8 great earthquake. Imagine three minutes of strong shaking, leaving damaged buildings, no power for weeks, many tourist routes like the Haast Pass closed by landslides, and thousands of stranded tourists. In short, an international scale disaster. Just google ‘AF8’ for more details on the website of the Alpine Fault magnitude 8 civil defence project. Tourism must suffer a downturn, and may not recover to these levels for many decades. Due to years of large aftershocks, ugly landslide damage to mountain and forest scenery, ongoing problems with roads, power and communications following storms, and damaged reputation. Queenstown Lakes District Council must be aware of the risks, as they are planning the civil defence response to the disaster, including the evacuation of thousands of tourists from Queenstown. Yet airport planning is based on the assumption of ever upward visitor growth. Rather than building extra airports, money and effort should be directed at increasing the resilience of existing infrastructure and reducing the impact of the coming quake. The obvious solution to Queenstown airport’s capacity issues is to utilise existing airports at Invercargill and Dunedin for any excess demand. A few hours of scenic road travel to Queenstown is hardly a major imposition on visitors. Graeme Halliday Wānaka
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Crimeline Henderson I Ian Constable, NZPD The week has been reasonably steady with local police dealing with a range of incidents. March brings an extra focus on ‘drink driving’, although this has always been on our radar. Two drink drivers apprehended this week- two too many, yet most drivers are being responsible. Motorists speeding past the school buses will be another area that police will keep an eye on as there have been a few complaints coming through - remember that it’s 20km/hr when the school bus has stopped to uplift or drop off passengers. Monday saw a local man taken to court for forgetting which day he was due to appear perhaps a note on your phone diary? A complaint was received on Tuesday relating to theft of items from a dwelling in Sunrise Bay, and after some enquiries, most of the property was recovered and returned to the owner. On Wednesday police received a complaint from a Cardrona farm manager about a hunter on his property. Perhaps better communication from the hunter may have helped matters. Remember to
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always get permission if hunting on other peoples’ land, be clear on what you can or cannot shoot and be aware of the land owner’s boundaries. Also on Wednesday, a local woman was arrested for missing her court date and taken to Queenstown; again she did not keep a note in her cell phone diary. On Friday night Police attended a noisy party on Stone St and assisted noise control to seize a stereo speaker. Remember that your first port of call for noise complaints is the QLDC. Police also attended a nose to a tail vehicle crash on SH 84 at the roadworks when the following driver was distracted. Please heed the reduced speed limits there until the new roundabout is complete. Remember to abide by the ‘two-second rule’ when following vehicles. On Saturday police attended a single-vehicle crash on McKay Road out towards Tarras, and a complaint was made by Lake Hāwea Motors relating to a petrol drive-off by the occupants of a Toyota Hiace van registration MKP891- if you see that vehicle please contact police. Our local search and rescue members undertook three rescues this week. One was a medical incident and the other two involved people who were stranded in the national park by the bad weather.
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The Salvation Army Family store is looking for a volunteer to assist our Van driver for one day per week, there will be some heavy lifting involved. Please contact the store for further details 443 5068. Merino, if anyone has any Merino clothing to spare could you kindly drop it into the Salvation Army Family Store, 48 Helwick Street The Salvation Army Family Store is desperately needing good quality mens clothing and shoes. If you could please just drop these into the store or phone for a pick up for large amounts. Volunteers welcomed at The Salvation Army Family store if you have some free time and would like to be part of a team which makes a difference, come and see us.
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N o t i c e b o a rd | P a p a P ā n u i Closure of Streets to Ordinary Vehicular Traffic PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1974, notice is hereby given that consideration will be given, at the next Wānaka Community Board meeting in February 2020 (date to be confirmed) to the closure of the following road to ordinary vehicular traffic, for the purpose of holding the annual Wanaka A & P Show 2020: Road to be Closed:
McDougall Street from Ardmore Street to Brownston Street
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0600 Wednesday 11 March 2020 to 1200 Sunday 15 March 2020
Roads to be Closed: Brownston Street from McDougall Street to Youghal Street and McDougall Street from Upton Street to Brownston Street
The popular Wānaka Bowling Club.
Ollie Blyth
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With the promise of colder days on the horizon as we come into autumn, many bowls enthusiasts might be worried that the Wānaka season is near drawing to an end. To that, the Wānaka Bowling Club says “heated indoor stadium.” Their flash facilities allow for bowling to be a year-round activity, and the club has invited the public to take a gander this Sunday, March 8 at 1:30-4:00 pm. The open day will allow locals to check out what the club has to offer, and to have club members show visitors the basics for no cost and bowls provided. As with many kinds of sports, bowls is an activity that is constantly morphing and developing. Recent years in New Zealand have seen the development of ‘Bowls3Five’, a
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shortened version of the game with ‘power plays’ and ‘tie-breakers’ that has made it to becoming a TV sport with many younger bowlers participating. Just having black or brown bowls is long gone, with a huge range of colours and patterns of bowls now available making bowl identification more easy as well as brightening the whole scene up. According to the club, the very basic purpose of the game remains simple: roll the jack (a small white or yellow ball) to the far end of the green and then attempt to roll your bowls to land closer to the jack than any of your competitors. They also added that bowls is a game for all people regardless of age or ability. It can be low key and social or fiercely competitive - it all depends on you. The Wānaka Bowling Club open day is welcome to all ages, genders, and abilities
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The winds of change Pat Deavoll
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Fifteen years ago I came to work for the Wānaka Sun fresh out of journalism school and a short stint with the Central Otago Mirror down in Alex. Back then, Chris Tobin was the editor, and he ran a tight but fair ship. Things were pretty simple; we journalists wrote our stories in Word, emailed them across the room to Bernie who dealt with layout, and she would miraculously turn them into hardcopy pages which Chris would sub with a red biro. Then back to Bernie for digital edits, and emailed off to Ashburton to be printed. Equally, as miraculously they would make their way back by truck across the Mackenzie and over the Lindis to Wānaka to be dumped next morning in everyone's mailboxes. Fast forward 15 years and here I am back in Wānaka as the editor of the Sun, and boy how things have changed. Everything is done in "the cloud," and the graphic artist who puts the pages together lives in India. We write the stories; they are put into "G-drive," somehow get fired across the world, and come back as formatted pages a day later. The editing I do online, then off to the printer in Christchurch. It's proving a steep learning curve for a technological nincompoop like me. But that's not the only thing that has changed. Wānaka has changed. I first started coming here in about 1990, making the long drive down from Christchurch on a Friday night to go rock climbing. Us dirtbags would camp in
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a convivial tented straggle along the banks of the Motatapu river, climb all day and then head into town to have dinner at Kai Whakapai, the only place open. Downtown consisted of about 20 shops; the grocery store was hopeless and suburbs? What suburbs? Fast forward to 2005 when I turned up here as a permanent and the tide was turning. The subdivision sprawl had begun, there were more cars, limited parking, bars, cafes, a New World. A hint of Queenstown was in the air. Yes, the tide was turning. 2020 and last Monday, I rode into town on my motorbike to have my first meeting with the outgoing editor. I got to Puzzling World and hit a traffic jam. Twenty minutes later I made it down onto the waterfront, only to find...no parking, not even for a motorbike. I parked on the grass, what the hell. The waterfront had a distinctly American feel to it- Sunset Strip. On the way back to Hawea, I rode around the back of Mt Iron- more subdivision, Albert Town and Wānaka had joined. Decided to ride to the Outlet- but where was the road to the Outlet? It took some hunting to find it. I wondered what all these new people did in Wānaka? In the few days that I have been back, I have discovered Wānaka is obsessed with the proposed airport development. And fair enough, this really would be the bottom of a long slow slide into mediocrity. The town's infrastructure hardly copes with today's overcrowding. Yes, Wānaka is overcrowded. How would it deal with hundreds of thousands of more visitors? From the perspective of an outsider, it wouldn't.
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Note: Park ‘n’ Ride will be available from the reserved land across from the Medical Centre on Cardrona Valley Road running every 15 minutes to the show entry gate from 8.00am-5.30pm. It will be an offence under the above regulations for any person otherwise than under authority of an authorised permit to use the roads for ordinary vehicular traffic during the period of closure.
Closure of Streets to Ordinary Vehicular Traffic PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1974, notice is hereby given that the following road will be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic for the purpose of holding the 2020 Motatapu Sporting Event: Road to be Closed: Period of Closure:
Motatapu Road (from Wānaka – Mount Aspiring Road intersection) Saturday 14 March 2020 from 0400 to 1300 Sunday 15 March 2020 from 0600 to 1000
It will be an offence under the above regulations for any person otherwise than under authority of an authorised permit to use the roads for ordinary vehicular traffic during the period of closure.
Amendment to March 2020 Meeting Schedule Additional meeting: Queenstown Lakes District Licensing Committee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Friday 13 March 2020 at 11.00am. Private Bag 50072 | 47 Ardmore Street Wānaka Phone 03 443 0024 | www.qldc.govt.nz
BUSY AT WĀNAKA POOL 17 FEBRUARY – 13 MARCH
Local primary kids are visiting Wānaka Recreation Centre for their school swimming and water safety programme. Until 13 March there’ll be very limited access to the learners’ pool between 9.00am-2.00pm every weekday except Thursdays when half the pool will be free. Other pool users may wish to schedule visits to the learners’ pool around these times. Four lanes in the lap pool will remain free for public swimming between 9.00am-2.00pm weekdays during this period. Many thanks for your co-operation while our local children learn these essential life skills. For more info please call (03) 443 9334 or email wrc@qldc.govt.nz
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WĀNAKA’S INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ISSUE 964 Free delivery to Wānaka, Cromwell and surrounds, PO boxes in Makarora, Cromwell, Haast, Wānaka, Albert Town and Hāwea. Also distributed to businesses in the Wānaka business district Average circulation: 15,000 weekly. Phone: 03 443 5252 • Fax: 03 443 5250 Editor: Pat Deavoll • editor@thewanakasun.co.nz Journalist: Ollie Blyth • journalist@thewanakasun.co.nz Joanna Perry • newsdesk@thewanakasun.co.nz Advertising: 03 443 5252• marketing@thewanakasun.co.nz Admin: Benn Ashford • 021 956 740 admin@thewanakasun.co.nz Mail: PO Box 697, Wānaka Deadlines: Display Advertising 4pm Friday prior to publication. marketing@thewanakasun.co.nz 03 443 5252 Classified Advertising 5pm Monday prior admin@thewanakasun.co.nz Subscriptions: $175 within NZ (including GST) per year. Overseas rates on request. Remittances to PO Box 697, Wānaka, NZ.
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Rookie Academy to stay put at TC Pat Deavoll
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Wānaka’s own Zoi Sadowski-Synott claimed victory at the US Open earlier in the week.
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Sadowski-Synnott gets gold again Ollie Blyth
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Wānaka’s own Zoi Sadowski-Synott has made her hometown proud once more after finding huge success at the 37th Annual Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships in slopestyle. “I can’t even explain how I’m feeling right now,” said Sadowski-Synnott on the day to SnowSports NZ. “It means so much, it was one of the first contests I watched when I started snowboarding and I’m just so happy to be here. It's been an amazing season and I wanted to finish it on a high and I’m just so happy to do it here at the Open.” Sadowski-Synnott came into the final as the top qualifier and was the last of the six competitors to drop into the course. Knowing that she would need to bring her A-game in order to secure a
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podium finish, the Kiwi had focused on raising the technicality of her rail tricks. The plan paid dividends right from the get-go with an 8.7 from a possible 10 on her very first trick, a switch boardslide 270 out on the top rail. With the wind picking up and snowfall reducing the visibility, competitors struggled to land their second runs. Sadowski-Synnott had her own dramas to contend with when she took a gouge out of her snowboard by clipping one of the rail features and then took a fall on her first jump. Forced to make an equipment change, she faced the unsettling prospect of taking her final run on a new board. But in the end, the third run would be a victory lap with second-placed rider Julia Marino taking a fall on her third run and unable to improve her score. The Upper Clutha Community congratulates Synott on a successful season, with three victories from the season to bring home soon.
A partnership agreement with the new owners of Treble Cone has enabled the country's longestrunning snowsport instructor training company to keep operating at the mountain. The Rookie Academy recently announced its terms of agreement with Cardrona Alpine Resort permitting it to independently offer training and certification for Canadian, U.S. and British ski and snowboard qualifications. It would also offer advanced training camps to the general skiing and snowboarding public. Rookies co-director Garett Shore said, "It has been a really positive process, and we are excited with the opportunity to work with Cardrona." Garett and fellow director Dean Hunter have been running their own training programme since 1992 at Treble Cone. Training for New Zealand qualifications would be run by Cardrona's in-house Instructor Training Centre (ITC). "We both have a shared vision for developing Wānaka as the premier location for advanced ski and snowboard training as well as instructor training," Garett said.
Sport leadership course on offer Joanna Perry
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A free sports leadership course developed by Sport New Zealand is being offered to Wānaka sports clubs, starting next week. The sessions will take place on March 11, 18 and 25 at the Wānaka Recreation Centre between 7 pm and 8:45 pm. Puna – the Sport and Recreation Leadership Framework developed by Sport New Zealand - offers a range of resources to help develop leadership capabilities. The sessions will be facilitated by Tiny Carruthers, community sports adviser for Sport Otago. “Leadership is the key to a well-run club. Sport New Zealand has developed a leadership course for all those individuals responsible for running sports clubs and organisations,” said Carruthers. “The beauty of this course is that participants share their experiences. Everyone has something to contribute as we work through the Puna leadership worksheets and video resources. “I encourage every club to send someone along, develop their leadership skills and meet like-minded people in the community,” he added.
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