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The Festival of Colour 2021 is officially underway! The opening ceremony was held on Sunday evening in the Pacific Crystal Palace. It included a stunning live performance by Louise Potiki Bryant, Ariana Tikao and Paddy Free. This linked to the video installation Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain on display in the foyer of the Lake Wānaka Centre for the duration of the festival, April 12-18.

Survey shows youth drinking in excess Pat Deavoll

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ore than 40 per cent of Wānaka's 13 to 16-year-olds are regular alcohol drinkers, according to a survey carried out by the Wānaka Alcohol Group.

The "Harming Me, Harming You" survey also revealed the number of young people drinking had increased since the last survey in 2018, many were drinking alone, and the incidences of harmful

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behaviour, such as stealing alcohol, had risen.

The survey found 43 per cent of those surveyed classed themselves as regular drinkers. Thirty-seven per cent reported binge drinking - consuming five or more drinks over four hours - up 16 per cent in 2018, and friends followed by parents continued to be the main suppliers of alcohol.

About 350 years 9 to 11 students at Mount Aspiring College (MAC) were surveyed in September 2020, with an even split of males and females. Similar surveys were carried out in 2016

and 2018, to map trends.

Overall, 53 per cent of year 9 to 11 students had tried alcohol, with that figure leaping to 83 per cent at year 11 level, an increase of 22 per cent on the 2018 survey.

Wānaka Alcohol Group (WAG) Coordinator, Bronwyn Coers said reducing youth drinking was vital, as there was significant evidence that alcohol was harmful to a young person’s developing brain.

"We all have a part to play in reducing harm

- from parents having hard conversations with their teens, to placing less emphasis on alcohol at home and community events," she said.

She said there was evidence of students who had been given alcohol by their parents then supplied it to their peers who had not been permitted to drink.

MAC Principal Nicola Jaconsen said she thought it was normal to be concerned about the results of the survey.

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Consultation open on ORC’s Long-term Plan

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Sarwan Chand and Conor Smith were climbing the south face of Marion Peak when they fell to their death.

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Andrew Noone: have your say.

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The Otago Regional Council’s (ORC) Draft Long-term Plan for 2021-31 (LTP) is now open for submissions until 9 May. The Draft LTP sets out an ambitious program of improvements to meet the growing expectations for Otago’s environmental management. The plan includes a proposed total rates increase of 47.5 per cent in year one.

ORC Chair Andrew Noone encouraged Otago residents to consider the consultation material and have their say.

“Our consultation document sets out what we’re aiming to do over the next ten years, and how we propose to pay for it. We’re asking for

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feedback in three specific areas – our biosecurity service levels and funding, how we balance the LTP budget, and how we spread the cost to rehabilitate Lake Hayes – and people can comment on any other aspect of the plan as well.

“Give the document a read and get your feedback through to us by May 9 – we’d love to hear thoughts on our plan for the future of Otago,” Noone said.

Anyone can have their say online, through ORC’s YourSay platform, or by returning the freepost form included in the consultation document. The document will continue to arrive in letterboxes across Otago over the coming days.

Anyone who wants to speak to the Council about their submission will be able to do so during hearings on 20-21 May.

The death of two promising mountaineers, one of whom was from Wānaka, was the subject of a three-day inquest in January last year.

Sarwan Chand, 27 of Wānaka and Conor Smith, 22 of Queenstown, died while attempting a challenging route on the south face of Marian Peak in the Darran Mountains on April 22, 2017.

The pair's deaths, to which there were no witnesses, was the subject of the inquest.

The pair were not climbing beyond their abilities, the coroner found.

Coroner David Robinson, who released his findings on Wednesday, concluded Smith fell – for an unknown reason but possibly a hand or foot slip, or a dislodged rock – up to 34 vertical metres, or twice the length of the played-out rope between the pair.

The force of his fall went on to a cam anchor that immediately dislodged, putting the force on to Chand's belay, his body, and then on to a

micro-cam secondary anchor that also dislodged, resulting in him being pulled from the rock face.

The two men then fell a further 100 vertical metres.

The pair had been members, since 2015, of the New Zealand Alpine Team, which is made up of promising young climbers who are mentored by experienced older climbers.

The team was set up 2013 and climbers aged 18 to 25 are able to apply to join its three-yearly intake as mentees.

Robinson said he considered whether the team's culture had contributed to the pair's deaths, partly because of media articles at the time in which experienced climbers had voiced concerns it was instilling "outsized confidence" in its mentees.

Two climbers who publicly expressed some of those concerns gave evidence at the hearing but expressed some regret at their earlier comments.

They admitted their knowledge of the team's culture was incomplete, and their perspectives had changed somewhat subsequently, Robinson said.

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Survey shows youth drinking in excess Continued from page 1 “In my experience young people take risks for a variety of reasons, and underage drinking is one risk taking behaviour. Access to alcohol will be a factor in this, but not necessarily as a result of the town's (affluent) demographic,” she said.

“Any statistical analysis gives us a picture.

From there we can only be proactive. Education plays an important role in terms of student’s understanding all aspects of alcohol consumption - what are normal behaviours, how marketing is used to get people to purchase alcohol, and the health risks. From my perspective it is about partnership with families - each family will have their own values and behaviors around alcohol.

Parents are in a powerful position to discuss this with their young people.”

Kahu Youth senior youth worker, Richard Elvey, said while the survey results were worrying, he called on the whole community not to point the finger at young people, but to instead provide guidance and model responsibility around alcohol.

"These young people need an arm around their shoulder and a listening ear, not a telling off. It does take a village to raise a child and we, as a community, need to work together with young people to address this.

"That starts at home - if young people see their parents drinking a lot, it can normalise it for them."

The survey results, which were similar to national trends, had informed recommendations to help reduce youth drinking. These included a whole community approach to the problem; not

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MAC year 11 students read the results of the 2020 survey, from left to right: India Yule, Jemma Brake (standing) and Paige Gawn.

supplying alcohol to under 18-year-olds; and adults modelling responsible drinking.

Health Promotion Agency analysis of studies nationwide found young people thought drinking was okay and that risky drinking was common practice.

Overall, 61 per cent of young people aged 12 to 24 drink alcohol (38 per cent of children aged 13 or younger and 76 per cent of those aged 17 or older). About a third are classed as binge drinkers and a third as moderate drinkers.

The 2020 WAG survey results were compiled

by Research First and it was funded by the Rotary Club of Wānaka.

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A mass movement event featuring the Wānaka community, as part of the opening night of the Festival of Colour, which paraded from the Palace to the lakefront (even stopping traffic on the way!) - choreographed by Chloe Loftus.

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Finishing on a high note Pat Deavoll

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Philip Tremewan has been at the forefront of Wānaka’s Festival of Colour as director since its inception in 2005. After this week’s festival, he is stepping down, handing over the reins to Sophie Kelly.

And this year's Festival has been the trickiest yet, as he and his team have had to negotiate Covid-19 and all the hassles this has brought.

“It was a tricky year,” he said. “The big difference was that usually, I’d be travelling to look at festivals in Australia and the big one in Edinburgh – it’s a massive festival.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has 2500 different shows every day. It is the grandmama festival of them all.

“Usually, we bring over one or two shows from Edinburgh every year. It’s a long way to bring shows from Europe – but we bring one-person shows and we share them with other festivals.”

But none of that happened this year, he said, so he focused intensely on New Zealand work. The way it happens, he finishes one festival and is on to planning the next one. He was thinking about what shows he would bring in well before Covid-19 hit.

“A lot of it is around collaboration,” he said. ”Can we get someone else to share the cost? This time around it was quite different.

The Dunedin Arts Festival had to cancel last year because of Covid-19 and they had asked if they could line up with us.

“So this year a lot of the work we show

is going to go across to Dunedin.”

Tremewan was head-hunted to become the festival’s director after working as the visual arts director for the Festival of Wellington and the director of the Festivals of Taupo and Tauranga.

Born in Wellington and educated in Christchurch, Tremewan studied English and theology at Cambridge University in England with the original intention of becoming an Anglican priest.

He then taught English for a year in Egypt and a year in the east end of London before returning to New Zealand and becoming involved in the arts.

He said festivals were a real source of inspiration because they allowed him to work with artists, the community and with different stakeholders.

The job of a festival director was complex as it involved putting together a programme with a strong core that reached a lot of people and pushed a lot of boundaries, as well as allowing for a degree of community participation.

With the Festival of Colour, as well as constructing a programme Tremewan has to get the funding. A lot of local businesses were knocked back by Covid-19, he said, and he had to look elsewhere.

“About 25 per cent of our income is from ticket sales and that means a lot of chasing up of other funding to make the thing work.

“So even during the lockdown, we were working away talking to people about shows they were cooking up. And people come to us some time- there is a brand-new show this year that asked if

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Philip Tremewan has headed the Festival of Colour since its inception in 2005. He is now bowing out.

they could use us as a test-bed. Wānaka first and then the big city afterwards.”

The real stakeholders in our festival are from the community, Tremewan said. These people are putting tens of thousands of dollars into the festival.

And a lot of these have been there from the start, making it happen.

“Has the festival grown? It has got a little bit bigger and longer and has more shows in it than ever. It’s pretty substantial now, and has a range of work and some top-quality companies- we are delighted.

“This is my last festival and I am handing over to Sophie Kelly. I will do one more Aspiring Conversations and then exit gracefully into the sunset.”

Tremewan said he would programme the next Aspiring Conversations so there was a proper succession strategy.

He planned to continue living in Wellington and stay involved in the arts, but he would also work on climate change.

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The Cromwell & Districts Promotion Group (CDPG) is offering local and regional artists the chance to Light Up Winter this year with a call for entries in their “Wish Upon a Star” art competition.

“This competition is an opportunity for the community to showcase their creative talents while making Light Up Winter bigger and brighter,” said Carolyn Murray, chairperson of the CDPG. “We are looking for sculptures, installations, and other art pieces that are lit up and speak to the theme.”

Submissions for entries are

open now, and the physical art pieces need to be delivered to The Mall on Saturday, 10 July between 1 and 2 pm. All entries will be displayed during the Light Up Winter celebrations from 4 till 9 pm. Prizes for the best artworks in each category will be awarded on the night.

The Wish Upon a Star art competition includes the following categories: • Professional (anyone who sells their art for money) • Adults – 19 and over • Kids 11 - 18 • Kids 10 and under For more information, go to www. cromwell.org.nz/lightupwinter

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Poppy & Star flight passes through Wānaka

Max Quinn- nature filmmaker whose workmates include chimpanzees, penguins, tigers…

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Extreme authors, speaking at Film Festival Pat Deavoll

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This was the Poppy & Star Flight arriving in Wānaka on Saturday with Antony Sproull from Air Milford, handing over the bag containing the poppy and star artworks to Jason Rhodes from the National Transport & Toy Museum.

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The Poppy & Star Flight is a nationwide project with 34 volunteer pilots each flying a sector on a 4-week itinerary in the run-up to Anzac Day. They will be carrying two large pieces of knitted artwork that will be added to by the locals at the welcome events in each town.

“These welcome events will be a place where people can come and see what we are doing and why,” said the instigator of the project Melanie Salisbury.

The project will raise funds for the RSA, NZ Warbirds Association, and The Starship Foundation.

“We are gathering hand knitted poppies at each destination from local crafters: these will then be added to our giant poppy and star and flown to the next stop, creating impressive works of art as we go. Donations will be collected along the way, and a welcome party in each destination on the route will await,” said Salisbury.

At the end of the journey, the artworks will be donated to charity, with the star going to The

Starship Foundation, and the poppy going to the RSA. Salisbury is calling on Kiwi’s across Aotearoa to help. “We are in desperate need of those who can crochet or knit that could help create poppies or stars. Every little bit helps, there is no shortage of opportunities for involvement.

“Businesses can get involved too, or those able to help raise funds to support us which could be as simple as a morning tea at the office or weekend car wash,” she said.

The Poppy Flight took off from Ardmore Airport on Friday 26 March with a Harvard aircraft flying to Thames for the first of the welcome events. Over 30 volunteer pilots will each fly a sector on the flight, carrying the poppy and star on to the next destination.

“It’s all about bringing the local community and schools together to raise funds and support those who fought for our freedom, as well as those families whose children are dealing with illness and challenges presently too,” said Salisbury.

The flight will also help keep aviation history alive through the NZ Warbirds Association.

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The New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival is pleased to announce a diverse range of adventure authors to speak at this year’s event in Wānaka from June 25 to 29. Nic Lowe, Max Quin and Sam Masters, all award-winning artists in their own genres, will be talking about their projects, which showcase the outdoors, nature, humans and animals.

Festival Director Mark Sedon is thrilled to draw on such different and interesting talents, “We are pleased to have three amazing people to complement our keynote speakers Tara Mulvany and Mark Watson. These authors are all unique storytellers in their own right and we are pleased to have them here to speak about and promote their books. “ Nic Low is a writer whose subjects include wilderness and adventure, technology and power, history and race. Low is of Ngāi Tahu Maori and European descent and this heritage is woven into his short stories. His first book, Arms Race, is a collection of mischievous, critical short stories. With a tongue-in-cheek pitch, Low’s words are raw and honest. New Zealand and mountains feature heavily in his work, with a deep a connection to his Kiwi roots. Low will be at the festival talking about his new book, which captures a literary walking expedition through the Maori and European history of New Zealand’s Southern Alps.

Max Quinn is a nature filmmaker. His workmates include chimpanzees, penguins, tigers and whales. He grew up in Te Kuiti but was destined to be amongst more exotic animals, in far-off lands, a long way from heartland New Zealand and its sheep. Quin is an expert at working in cramped spaces, inclement weather, dark, cold places and remote locations. His life has been a long romance courting tarantulas and burrowing owls in the Tibetan plateau, emperor penguins in the Antarctic, sled dogs in the Yukon, and whales and polar bears too.

Last year he published his autobiography, A Life of Extremes: The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker.

Sam Masters has 25 years of freeski photography, writing and film work to his name. He has carved a life out of big mountain skiing, remote snow adventures and ski storytelling. Masters is a master of putting into words the joy of deep pow turns, steep and scary terrain, and chasing the elusive first lines and fresh snow. Sam has produced The Story of New Zealand Freeskiing. The book is a coffee-table chronicle of freeskiing in New Zealand, captured by some of our most talented snow sports photographers. Masters explains, “We’ve captured, condensed and committed New Zealand’s best ski photography to the page in a visual history of a sport whose playing fields create their own weather.”

The authors will be at the festival to talk about their books and lives in their respective creative fields.

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Putting 1080 to bed About 30 years ago I worked on a large 1080 poisoning operation in Waipoua Forest in Northland, the home of the mighty Tāne Mahuta. The forest was in trouble, being eaten alive by possums.

My job was to compare damage to trees done by possums in the ‘drop zone’ to other trees outside of it to see if the poisoning had any impact. I was deeply sceptical about the whole operation thinking it was a terrible idea to spray a forest with poison. But what unfolded over the following months was remarkable: trees in the 1080 drop zone recovered foliage and began to flower and fruit prolifically whereas that outside continued to be denuded and in some cases even died.

I was so overwhelmed by what we were recording I likewise came to believe 1080 was a miracle and my faith in it back then went beyond what I was measuring to conveniently believe it killed only mammals and was completely harmless to birds. A perfect cure.

I was wrong.

Soon after that, I left Aotearoa New Zealand to work and study conservation overseas. When I came home after nearly 30 years away, I assumed the 1080 debate would be over I was wrong again.

I was surprised by all the anti-1080 sentiment – how could anyone question a miracle cure – and the vehemence with which those opinions were held.

I decided I should look at the evidence for and against the use of 1080 with an open mind. I am an independent consultant and conservation scientist.

I have no skin in the game, no vested interests other

than not wanting to see our native species go extinct.

The anti-1080 position can be summed up as 1080 kills birds and other non-target species in huge numbers resulting in a ‘silent forest’, it endangers humans by poisoning the waterways and blowing in the air, and that there is a conspiracy between DOC, councils, OSPRI, Landcare and the contractors that apply 1080 to hoodwink the public and enrich themselves.

The problem with this position is that there is very little evidence to support any of it. The anti-1080 argument is guilty of the fallacy of incomplete evidence – or cherry-picking – and confirmation bias – only using evidence that supports an existing position.

One area of valid concern is the impact of 1080 on game species. Non-target mammals such as deer are killed by 1080 although additives to baits can reduce mortality. But even when deer are killed, their populations are not reduced as drastically as possum or rat populations, and because of this and that they have no natural predators, game populations can recover quickly.

The pro-1080 position can be summed up as there are negligible risks to humans and, although there is some killing of non-target native species, the overall benefits outweigh the costs in terms of protecting all native species over multiple years.

A decade ago, a very comprehensive analysis of the use of 1080 was undertaken by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment that concluded ‘based on careful analysis of the evidence not only should the use of 1080 continue

(including in aerial operations) to protect our forests, but that we should use more of it.’

In more recent years there has been much published research on the use of 1080 and how it accumulates in the environment and the threat to humans and nontarget native species. The overwhelming consensus of that science is that 1080 does not accumulate in the environment, the risks to humans the way 1080 is currently used are negligible and acceptable within public health and safety criteria.

The toxin has been found to kill native species.

Kea are particularly vulnerable - 25 of 200 monitored were killed in various operations - especially ‘funk food’ kea, the ones fed by humans close to roads and ski fields that are used to novel foods, like muesli bars or 1080 baits.

Fortunately, studies show that in the season following the poisoning, breeding is so successful in the absence of predators that any losses from 1080 are more than made up for by surviving chicks. Numerous studies, including a recent one using automated recorders in matched areas with and without 1080 operations, have debunked the myth that 1080 creates a ‘silent forest’.

You can even ‘sniff test’ the 1080 conspiracy theories about a cartel between DOC and others to enrich themselves: check out the carpark next time you drive past the DOC office in Wānaka. If these guys were making millions out of 1080 would they drive a bunch of such cheap, beaten-up vehicles?

Perhaps they are hiding their beamers in the same place they are hiding the evidence against 1080!

The weight of scientific evidence should have put the 1080 debate to bed, or at least put it in its pyjamas.

But the 1080 debate is still wide awake and screaming.

At one extreme is an echo chamber of the anti1080 lobby whose strongly held beliefs champion

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Does 1080 kill more than just possums?

conspiracy theories with evangelical zeal and absolute certainty. They can be quite compelling if utterly unconvincing.

At the other extreme is the scientific community plagued by the fact that proving anything scientifically is impossible, and even when research into the impacts of 1080 gives overwhelming support this is reported dispassionately and qualified with a probability. Not great clickbait.

And the rest of us are caught somewhere in the middle not paying too much attention but wondering, as I did if there is some fire given all the anti-1080 smoke about.

But do not wonder. If you do not have time or cannot be bothered reading the evidence for yourself, my reading of it for you as an independent technical person concurs with the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, a far more competent independent technical person, who stated: “without [1080] our ability to protect many of our native plants and animals would be lost.”

We should continue to study the impacts of 1080 and refine the way it is used and ultimately find new and better alternatives. But in the meantime, 1080 is the best tool we have to save our natural taonga from decline to extinction.

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Apprentice Briearnah Cook has claimed the title of the Central Otago New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) Apprentice Challenge champion for 2021, after competing against two other apprentices on April 10.

The apprentices were put through their paces, given just eight hours to build a picnic table that followed specific design plans and met minimum safety standards.

The picnic tables were assessed by a panel of judges who looked at technical aspects such as the quality of workmanship, measuring, cutting and assembly, as well as other essential skills while working against the clock, including their ability to follow a detailed plan and safe working technique, with Cook receiving the top score overall.

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“This is a huge step to protect our workforces who have been on the frontline of our fight against COVID.”

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Apprentice Challenge champion for 2021, Briearnah Cook.

NZCB Apprentice Challenge Manager, Nick Matthews, said the show of carpentry talent on Saturday was a testament to the high-calibre of apprentices currently in industry training.

“The future of New Zealand’s building industry is dependent on a robust pipeline of trade-qualified and well-rounded carpentry professionals. We encourage NZCB member builders to support this by taking on apprentices, as in doing so they provide a pathway into the industry and help to ensure there are highlyskilled builders coming through to meet the increasing demand for the sector,” says Mathews.

The first local COVID-19 vaccination clinics took place in Queenstown this week, as Southern DHB progresses the rollout of the vaccine across the district. Alongside a clinic in Te Anau, this marks the first clinic to open outside Dunedin and Invercargill.

The clinic in central Queenstown has been open since Saturday for frontline health workers, border workers and those who will become part of the border workforce under the upcoming trans-Tasman bubble, plus their household contacts.

Hamish Brown, who is leading the rollout of the vaccine programme for Southern DHB, said this was a “further important milestone in our rollout of the COVID vaccine.”

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providers in these centres - in particular WellSouth Primary Health Network and the teams at Queenstown Medical Centre, Wakatipu Medical Centre and Fiordland Medical Practice to get the vaccine to the border workforce, their household contacts and frontline health workers in these communities.

“This is a huge step to protect our workforces who have been on the frontline of our fight against COVID.” The roll out of the programme precipitates the vaccine becoming more widely available in locations across the district via the general practice network, with vaccination for the general public expected to commence in July.

Further information on when other groups in the population are likely to receive a vaccine can be found at Unite Against COVID-19 website.

The last day for the Queenstown clinic is today, Thursday, April 15, from 5.30pm to 8pm. Bookings are essential. Visit www. southernhealth.nz/COVID-19.

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Local resident and tuba player David Leslie said New Zealand Veterans Brass Band members were really looking forward to returning to Wānaka.

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Apple pressers were rewarded for their hard work by tasty treats from volunteer chef, Berni Makia, including a custard apple tart, apple buns and a loaf of chocolate apple sourdough bread.

Saving a tonne of apples Joanna Perry

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900kg of excess apples were turned into 220 jars of chutney and 250 litres of juice at the seventh annual Wānaka Autumn Apple Drive last weekend.

The Wānaka Autumn Harvest Festival was organised by volunteers Local Food Wānaka and Wao Aotearoa, featuring the apple drive on Saturday and a harvest lunch in Rippon Hall on Sunday. Apple drive co-organiser Sophie Ward said both were “really amazing” events.

60-70 people turned out with chopping boards, knives, jars and glasses on Saturday to join volunteer organisers - Ward, Petrina Duncan, Sarah Allen, Naomi Lindsay, Lorne from Pirate Pickles on the chutney and Ben Elms on the cider press - and saved 45 banana boxes, a bunch of bags and buckets full of apples from going to waste.

Volunteers took the chutney and juice away with them, with the remaining chutney jars to

be donated or gifted and the juice used for cider vinegar for next year’s chutney.

Ward said the stars of the day were Mount Aspiring College’s Team Green - a group of students interested in sustainability - who gave up their time to help throughout the day and got stuck in on the mulcher and the press.

“They showed so much initiative, worked really hard and really had fun,” said Ward.

The apple pressers were rewarded for their hard work by tasty treats from volunteer chef, Bernie Makia, including a custard apple tart, apple buns and a loaf of chocolate apple sourdough bread.

Long lunch organiser Brona Parsons said that the sold out event on Sunday, featuring a multicourse meal based on excess produce donated from the community, raised around $2,000 for local charity Food for Love - twice that of last year.

“This was all pulled off by a group of volunteers,” said Ward, who also gave special mention to Petrina Duncan, one of the founding organisers of the apple drive who has attended every single event - even travelling up from Dunedin to do so.

The build-up to Anzac Day kicks off tomorrow with the Poppy Day street collection.

The theme for this year’s Poppy Day is ‘military women’ and there will be poppy collection points in the foyers of both New Worlds, Mitre 10 and outside Paper Plus. Eftpos will be available at the New Worlds and donations can also be made by going to the Givealittle Poppy Appeal page.

Last year’s national remembrance events were cancelled for the first time since Anzac Day’s inception in 1921 due the Covid-19 pandemic.

New Zealanders were asked to ‘stand at dawn’ in their garden, driveway or living room on April 25 2020 for a Covid-friendly service.

This year, things will be back to normal with 7:00am dawn services at the Wānaka lakefront and the Anzac Peninsula, Lake Hāwea Dam. There will be a 9:30am service in the Lake Wānaka Centre, followed by a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial on Chalmers Street at 11:00am.

Thanks to continuing travel restrictions preventing their trip to the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Central Otago will once again host the New Zealand Veterans Brass Band in the week leading up to and including Anzac Day. The band last appeared in the region for ANZAC Day 2019. Made up of retired NZ Defence Force musicians from across the country, the group has reassembled every two years since 2012 to participate in Anzac Day ceremonies.

Local resident and tuba player David Leslie said the band members were really looking forward to returning to Wānaka following a “most successful

PHOTO: Wānaka Sun archive

This year, things will be back to normal with 7:00am dawn services at the Wānaka lakefront and the Anzac Peninsula, Lake Hāwea Dam.

visit” two years ago, and would be playing a wide range of genres, including ceremonial fanfares, marches, World War One melodies, light classics and pop.

The band will perform a series of concerts in the area, commencing on Thursday, April 22 at 2:00pm in the square beside Kai Whakapai.

They will go on to the Golden View Lifestyle Retirement Village in Cromwell, the Alexandra Services Club and the Arrowtown Autumn Festival before returning to Wānaka to perform at the lakefront dawn service on April 25, the civic service at the Lake Wānaka Centre, and a further concert for residents of the Aspiring Lifestyle Retirement Village.

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Great Migrant Brainstorm identifies key issues Joanna Perry

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A series of brainstorming events held in Queenstown and Wānaka at the end of last month have identified some key issues for migrants living locally.

Originally from the US, Queenstown resident Kelsey Powell has founded The Kiwi Kit, a relocation service for people wishing to move to New Zealand, and The Kiwi Kit Community Trust, which aims to celebrate diversity and support migrants in Queenstown Lakes.

Seeking to understand the needs and experiences of local migrants, the Trust facilitated four Great Migrant Brainstorm sessions at the Wānaka Community Hub and Buzzstop Cafe in Queenstown with a team of volunteers and support from the Ministry of Social Development Community Resilience Fund.

Powell said the events were “awesome,” with 90 people in attendance including representatives from local agencies including Queenstown Lakes

District Council and Volunteer South, and that, although a report of the data was still being formulated, some key issues had been identified.

These included barriers to language services - both English and Te Reo Māori, with migrants wanting to learn more about the local culture, community, history and language - migrants finding it harder to access certain local services due to their visa status, and a lack of community spaces - particularly in Queenstown - or knowledge of where to go for community services.

As a result of the sessions, the Trust aimed to develop projects to support the local community alongside a “live report” to show how the migrant community is evolving in QLD. “We are trying to collaborate with other organisations,” she said. “We want to inform what’s already working and fill in the gaps of things that are missing or support things that are working well.”

The data report from the sessions would be publicly available in the next month at: thekiwikitcommunity.org

PHOTO: Cameron Garmoe

Powell said the organisation’s first events were “awesome.”

Wanakup: more than a cup Joanna Perry

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The Wanakup stall has been serving up free coffee at almost every festival and event this summer - from the A&P Show, to Ripe, to last week’s cold and rainy Skyline Track challenge Gritt - in the signature stainless steel cups. But this sustainability initiative is about much more than coffee.

The non-profit environmental organisation is the brainchild of two local baristas, Nathale Thaipun and Benjamin Quinn, who are using their backgrounds in environmental and social science to bring about sustainable change through behavioural change.

The pair are running the most used reusable cup system in Wānaka. Their $10 borrowing scheme is used by over 15 local cafes and will soon be launching in hotels. They support local businesses to establish reusable systems through consultation, providing mugs and jars to set up libraries, and sanitisation in their commercial dishwasher.

They’ve provided catering for a whole range of street, beer and arts festivals on the South Island, and they were a finalist at last month’s Local’s Choice Wānaka 2020 awards for favourite sustainability initiative, alongside Wastebusters (winner) and Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust.

And they have achieved all of this off their own backs, whilst working full-time, with the help of a team of volunteers.

Thaipun said that the project had been “passion-driven” since its inception in 2018, which involved “spending every second of our day” researching and designing the perfect thermally insulated and virtually unbreakable reusable cup.

When Wanakup officially launched in June 2019, they were not the only reusable cup system on the Wānaka scene - but during the Covid-19 pandemic they gained significant traction with cafes through offering frequent collection, sanitisation and delivery of clean Wanakups.

Now busy with events almost every weekend, Thaipun said that at first punters didn’t understand what the “catch” was when they were offered a free coffee.

“We’re trying to encourage people to reuse,” she said. “People don’t realise how much of a takeaway cup goes into landfill.”

Wanakup estimates that over the last two years, their cafe system has already stopped over 200,000 cups from entering landfill, and their events work another 50,000.

Thaipun said to be nominated for the Local’s Choice award was “so warming.”

“Sometimes Ben and I get a little bluesy because we really do work hard. Ben and I have been doing endless doubles to essentially pay our living wage as well as pay for us to run Wanakup. We don’t make money because we want to make a point...

We don’t want any excuses from businesses, we don’t want it to be over complicated. So we just do it all.”

PHOTO: Elié Babin

The non-profit environmental organisation is the brainchild of two local baristas, Nathale Thaipun and Benjamin Quinn, supported by a team of volunteers.

With their three year anniversary coming up in July, Wanakup have some exciting plans for the future, both to establish funding streams and expand their offering. Keep your eyes out for a beer collaboration between Rhyme & Reason and

Little Black Caravan, with $1 of every pour going to Wanakup, fundraising community events to support local businesses during shoulder season, and further expansion outside of Wānaka (and maybe even New Zealand).

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Te Taki o te Ua / The A dreamy Sunday with French for Rabbits Joanna Perry Sound of Rain unveiled in Lake Wānaka Centre Start your Sunday off right with Normally accompanied by a newsdesk@thewanakasun.co.nz

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Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain features three video installations, each focusing on a different level of rainfall and the predicted effects of climate change on our water cycle.

Joanna Perry

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If you visit the Festival of Colour HQ in the next few days to pick up your programme or tickets, be sure to spare a few minutes to experience Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain.

The video installation in the foyer of the Lake Wānaka Centre - and the live performance which premiered at Sunday’s opening ceremony - is a collaboration between choreographer and video artist Louise Potiki Bryant, singer and leading player of taonga puoro (Māori instruments) Ariana Tikao, and composer Paddy Free. It combines contemporary dance, waiata (song), taonga pūoro, animation, video and soundscape in a powerful video landscape to address the impacts of climate change in Te Waipounamu / South Island.

Funded by Track Zero - Arts Inspiring Climate Change and Creative New Zealand, and informed

by Dr Daniel Hikuroa (earth systems scientist) and Dr Mike Joy (freshwater ecologist), the project brings together art, science, and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).

Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain features three video

installations, each focusing on a different level of rainfall and the predicted effects of climate change on our water cycle. Waikohu / Mist is an expression of the water cycle in balance, while Pakapaka / Drought addresses the projected increase in frequency and intensity of drought and Āwhā / Storm tackles the threat of storms and flooding.

Potiki Bryant said the project had been an opportunity for the artists to inform themselves on the effects of climate change and to express that from the perspective of their whakapapa, exploring Māori cultural stories; the installation explores the impact of climate change on Rakinui (Sky Father) and Papatūānuku (Earth Mother).

Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain has been unveiled for the very first time as part of the festival, and is open to the public from 9:00am to 9:00pm every day.

“We really encourage people to put the headphones on and listen to the soundscape,” said Potiki Bryant.

“It makes the work more immersive, and they’re beautiful compositions

by Paddy and Ariana.”

some dreamy tunes at the Festival of Colour’s Pacific Crystal Palace, courtesy of French for Rabbits.

The dream-pop trio is made up of songwriter Brooke Singer, guitarist John Fitzgerald and multiinstrumentalist Ben Lemmie - who you may know from Trinity Roots, Estere and Flight of the Conchords.

The group started with Singer and Fitzgerald almost ten years ago in Waikuku Beach, northern Canterbury. Now based in Wellington, they have toured all over the world - supporting Agnes Obel, Lorde and Marlon Williams, performing at festivals in Iceland and the UK, and at SXSW. Their music has appeared in TV series including ‘The Vampire Diaries’, and they have gigged in unusual locations from a castle in the Swiss Alps to a surf camp in Portugal.

drummer and another instrumentalist, the group are stripping it back to a trio for their current tour, for which they have performed at the Auckland Arts Festival and Cubadupa, and will have their finale here in Wānaka on Sunday.

Singer promised the audience an “intimate show” in which the group would preview songs from their new album, due for release later this year.

“When we perform, people get to know who we are,” she said. “It’s very much storytelling music, the lyrics are really a big part of it. And in the setting of just the trio, you really get to focus on the words and make the most of that element.”

French for Rabbits will perform from 11:30am-12:30pm at the Pacific Crystal Palace on Sunday. www.festivalofcolour.co.nz/act/ french-for-rabbits.

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The group started almost ten years ago in Waikuku Beach and has toured all over the world.

Street Theatre Saturday Joanna Perry

newsdesk@thewanakasun.co.nz

Music, theatre, dance will take over the streets of Wānaka on Saturday for the Festival of Colour arts festival’s Street Theatre Day. Tell your stories of lockdown to Katja at Lockdown Laundry, have a customised love letter written, watch crazy performers from Rollicking Entertainment, leave your doubts behind with the Insecurity Guards, see Upper Hutt dancers The 8th Count perform, listen to ACE Brass and boogie along with United Dance Crew.

The jam-packed day of free entertainment begins from 9.30am and will continue through the day and into the night.

Cross the Line, featuring local dancers and skaters, will be performed at the Skate Park at 10am and 11am, and there will be a part treasure hunt, part mystery cellphone adventure around town with specially-developed app Big Data from 10.30am.

After sunset, head down to the Dinosaur Park for the second performance of mesmerising mid-air

PHOTO: Supplied

Boy dancer meets girl skater: Cross the Line, featuring local dancers and skaters, will be performed at the Skate Park at 10am and 11am.

duet The Air Between Us with Chloe Loftus and Rodney Bell at 7:30pm.

Street Theatre Day is part of the Festival of Colour’s biggest programme of community events presented in the festival's history and also includes three exhibitions at the Lake Wānaka Centre - Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain,

Through the Eye of the Lens and Ministry for the Environment’s Our Climate Future - as well a special project with acclaimed artist Michel Tuffery, Windows over Wānaka, which has transformed the shopfronts of Helwick Street.

For the full programme of free events visit www.festivalofcolour.co.nz

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Wānaka population 70,000 residents by 2050?

The section we are opening is from Pisa Moorings through to Clyde.

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Lake Dunstan Trail grand opening Pat Deavoll

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Ten local cyclists will be the first to ride the new 59 km Lake Dunstan Trail on May 8, according to Stephen Jeffrey, Chair of the Central Otago Queenstown Trail Networks Trust.

“There are ten spots open in the official first bunch for local cyclists to ride the trail from Clyde Heritage Precinct to Cromwell Heritage Precinct,” said Jeffrey. “We are accepting applications until April 21, after which there will be a ballot to select the lucky winners.”

“The section we are opening is from Pisa Moorings through to Clyde. It’s taken about 2 years to build,” said Jeffreys.

“There are safety barriers where we consider there is a risk, but basically it is a 2.5-metre-wide trail which is big enough for a vehicle.

“Due to the consents we were given, there is a section with a narrow trail through it, but this is still quite adequate to ride a bike on. It will be rideable for everyone; it is of very high standard. The narrow bit, people just have to be a bit mindful of passing.

That’s the bit we are currently working on.

“It’s a walking and cycling trail and walkers are most welcome.”

The trail takes you through amazing scenery (which would otherwise be inaccessible), past some fascinating historic sites and onto wonderfully engineered structures,” said Jeffery.

“The route links to the Otago Central Rail Trail and forms part of the Great Rides in Central Otago and the Southern Lakes.”

The Lake Dunstan Trail will be officially opened to the public on Saturday, May 8. This long-anticipated event will start with a ribbon-cutting in Clyde followed by community celebrations in Cromwell.

Once the official first bunch sets off, anyone else is welcome to ride the trail from the Clyde end.

“One Day One Way” festivities will then shift to Cromwell for the Grand Opening celebrations from 12 am till 5 pm.

“This will be held in the Cromwell Heritage Precinct which will be filled with live entertainment, street food, and local wine,” said Gretchen Nightingale, Community Relationships Manager of the Cromwell & Districts Promotion Group.

“It’ll be the perfect spot for supporters to enjoy the afternoon while waiting on their cyclists to complete the trail.”

For more information on the trail and the Grand Opening and to apply to be in the first bunch, go to lakedunstantrail.co.nz.

The Council Word Are you applying for a community grant?

This year, anyone applying for a community grant must do so through the draft Ten Year Plan 2021-2031 submission process, even if you normally receive an annual grant or rent costs. Get more information and make a submission at letstalk.qldc.govt.nz

Holiday fun in the pool There are heaps of fun and games taking place in our pools every day of the school holidays including group classes, toys and inflatables.

For a full list of activities and times visit www.qldc.govt.nz/recreation/swim.

ANZAC opening hours Wānaka Recreation Centre including the aquatic facilities and indoor courts will be open from 1.00-8.00pm on Sunday 25 April, and from 8.00am-8.00pm on Monday 26 April as we observe ANZAC Day.

School holiday programme Bookings for Wānaka Recreation Centre’s autumn holiday programme are now open.

Sport, games, trips out and a swim every day for ages 5-12. Weekdays 8.30am-3.30pm from Monday 19 to Friday 30 April. Prices from $45/ day. Call (03) 443 9334, email wrc@qldc.govt. nz or drop by the Rec Centre for full details.

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Parks and Open Spaces Strategy We’re looking for feedback on a draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy 2021 and a draft Future Parks and Reserves Provisions Plan 2021. These documents aim to provide a rich and diverse network of open spaces valued by the community and protected and enhanced for future generations. Check out the documents and have your say now at letstalk.qldc.govt.nz

So, the QLDC Council has signed off on the Ten-Year Plan for the district, but of our three Councillors from Wānaka only one has agreed with the document as it stands.

Calum MacLeod, who was the lone Wānaka voice who agreed with it, acknowledges that the (spending) plan is skewed in favour of Queenstown, but says that the draft plan could always be changed.....(ODT 29 March).

How can we in Wānaka possibly get a fair deal if our already under-represented Wānaka Councillors do not show a united front on such an important Long Term Plan issue? Such disunity is worrying, but even more worrying is the fact that the QLDC is looking ahead in the Ten-Year Plan to a startling 68 per cent population growth.

I would like to point out to Councillor MacLeod that the Ten-Year Plan figures are allowing for a 5.4 per cent annual population growth, which sounds good but if the sums are done properly and extended out to 2050, that will see us with a Wānaka population of over 54,000 people. An increase of over 340 per cent. And if we continue with the 7 per cent annual recent growth, we will be looking at a population of over 70,000 people. Can you imagine that?

How can that possibly be called ‘Growing Well’?

I would suggest that “reacting” to that kind of growth, given the major growth problems that we already have, is going to be impossible. The Plan documents themselves make no provision nor offer any comment as to strategies to control or restrain growth. Rather the reverse.

All this highlights that “reacting to growth” is the wrong way to be dealing with the current model of accepting whatever external demand throws at us.

Any rational person will realise that it cannot continue indefinitely. In other words, growth grinds to a halt when we have killed the very things that made us so special in the first instance.

The real question which must be asked is, how big can we become before our ecologically sustainable capacity is reached? Already our lake is showing warning signs of pollution during heavy rain events. Our local rivers are running dry through over-extraction and we have regular “do not swim” notices due to summer algal blooms from agricultural run-off. Should we wait until it becomes clear to even the most blinkered pro-growth advocate that we have reached beyond the capacity of our environment to absorb and repair the damage from ongoing overload?

These are big questions, the answers for which most of our QLDC politicians prefer to leave for the next generation. There is no denying that the current “reaction plans” are barely going to tinker around the edges with the problems arising from the 5.4 per cent compounded targeted growth let alone the more probable scenario of at least 7 per cent growth.

The only sensible answer to these issues is that we cannot possibly “Grow Well” into the future by merely reacting to demand-driven growth. We must seriously curtail that growth to a much lesser figure than what is in these forward plans Only when we accept that we are now very close to the tipping points of local (and national and global) environmental capacity will we be able to look forward to PHOTO: Pinterest.NZ Already our lake is showing warning signs of “wellness” in the future.

Andrew Millar pollution during heavy rain events.

CONCERT REVIEW: Natalia Lomeiko and Sarah Watkin

Help shape our district’s future!

The draft 2021-2031 Ten Year Plan plan is the big picture of where we’re heading as a district and how we’ll get there. It covers essential investment for all the services we provide and projects we propose to deliver or begin within the next ten years.

Head to letstalk.qldc.govt.nz for more information and have your say by Monday 19 April at 5.00pm.

A Plan to Grow Well The draft Queenstown Lakes Spatial Plan is in its final week of community consultation.

It proposes a vision and framework for how and where our district will grow in the future, looking out to 2050.

Head to letstalk.qldc.govt.nz for more details and share your feedback by Monday 19 April at 5.00pm.

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Sarah Watkins, along with Natalia Lomeiko presented a “finely balanced program of violin and piano music.”

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A large audience enjoyed a wonderful concert in the Wānaka Centre on Monday 5 April when Natalia Lomeiko and Sarah Watkins presented a finely balanced program of violin and piano music.

They started with a Mozart sonata and then played three pieces by Tchaikovsky, with an intervening composition by a New Zealander, labelled as a dance but described as an interplay between environmental elements.

It is to be hoped that some people in the audience understood it, this reviewer struggled.

In the second half, the duo played five very pleasant melodies by Prokofiev and finished with a sonata by Grieg. The playing and coordination between the two was superb and showed the performer's skills admirably.

My only concerns were that the audience inadvertently interrupted with applause after some movements. It would have been clearer to all if the program notes listed the movements to guide the listener.

– By Dennis Pezaro.

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Wānaka is what it is Pat Deavoll

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In the next few weeks my time as editor of the Wānaka Sun will come to an end.

This is not without regrets because I love the job- I have been covering a town that excels in having stuff to report on.

How many towns of 13,000 would have as many events happening as Wānaka? Challenge Wānaka, the A&P Show, Motatapu, Warbirds, Wheels at Wānaka, the Festival of Colour, Aspiring Conversations...the list goes on. And there is a wealth of smaller events that crop up here and there. Plus the ski fields. And the QLDC never fails to deliver. It is a journalist’s paradise!

However I do wonder if Wānaka has lost its way.

What was once a town that supported farmers is now very much a tourist town...and is it coping?

I lived in Wānaka from 2003 until 2010 before leaving for 10 years. There were about 5000 people in Wānaka back then. It was busy but not like it was before the advent of Covid, which happened just after I had arrived for my second stint with the Sun. Putting out a paper during lock-down was a baptism of fire for me.

I don't think the readers realised just how hard we (myself and reporters Ollie and Joanna) had to work to get something down on the page. There was absolutely no news and we had to use our imagination to come up with articles that would be entertaining. I remember photo spreads on “ lock down pets.” And putting out a call for “ what are you doing during lock down?” Not breaking news but a lot of fun.

But during lockdown there was a sense of calm. The overseas tourists were gone and Wānaka was left to get on as best it could. The birds came back. I could ride my moto from Hāwea into the Albert Town supermarket without passing another car.

Today there still is a sense of calm sans overseas tourists, but this didn't mean the events, like Wheels at Wānaka last weekend, haven't gone ahead. Over Easter there were around 40,000 people in town, which, apart for a couple of hours out at Wheels, confined me to home.

It made me think of the first time, 30 years ago, I first started spending time in Wānaka.

My husband and I would come down for the weekend from Christchurch, with our friends, camp out at the Motatapu River, and spend our days rock climbing. In the evening we would come into town and have dinner at the only place available, Kai Whakapai, which in those days was tucked in a tiny enclave back off Aardmore St. It was a pretty idyllic time for us.

I miss those times.

So the point of this ramble? Does Wānaka want to continue the way it is? Subdivisions?

Rich Southland dairy farmers and Aucklanders coming here to retire? An ongoing stream of tourists, both domestic and overseas, coming into town? No available parking? Excessive house prices, and rents? Excessive everything?

Is this what we want?

I think back 30 years to the small rural support town with nostalgia. But Wānaka will never regress to this, so I just have to suck it up.

Wānaka is what it is.

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Crimeline Chirnside K Kim Sergeant, NZPD Kia ora all. Our week was wild and varied as it often is.

On Monday we were involved in the rescue of a hunter who was badly injured in a fall in the Hawea/Dingleburn area. Due to his good preparation, he was able to be rescued quickly with minimal risk to rescuers.

On Wednesday we located a vehicle that was stolen in Cromwell and travelling towards Christchurch. A quick apprehension near Tarras had the vehicle returned to the victim that day.

On Friday night a vehicle was taken from Hedditch Street in Wānaka and crashed a short distance away on Plantation Road. The culprit left the scene after hiding the vehicle in the park.

Both of these incidents are timely reminders to take your keys from your vehicle regardless of how brief your departure might be.

Also on Friday night, a driver was stopped for drink driving on Chalmers Street, Wānaka. Their licence has been suspended and they have a court date.

On Saturday afternoon there was a petrol drive-off at BP. They will be visited by Police shortly and will face some consequences.

On Saturday night a patron at a bar in town

was ejected for antisocial behaviour and in the aftermath assaulted two staff members. He was apprehended after leaving to go to another bar.

He has been charged with these offences.

Also on Saturday, Police conducted any ‘anytime / anywhere’ operation targeting drink drivers in our town. Some people will report being stopped where they least expected to be.

We were pleased with the results, with one driver found over the limit, which is much better than we have seen previously. But one driver leaves room for improvement.

Finally, a quick reminder for all drivers regarding the use of mobile phones. From my

observations, members of the public would like the following questions answered. 1) Holding my phone in front of me while I talk isn’t using a phone, is it? 2) Holding my phone as I use it as a map isn’t using a phone, is it? 3) I just like to hold my phone and not use it, so that’s not using a phone, is it? 4) I like to talk on my phone while I drive past the police station. That’s not annoying, is it?

The answer to all is yes, it is. Please keep your attention on the road and off your phones. We’ve delivered that message personally to many people this week.

Have a great week out there and stay safe.

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NOTICE

THANKS

Cut rags (100% cotton) and drop cloths, only $7 for a big bag. Now in the yard container at Wastebusters. Open 9-5 seven days.

Business Networking International.

The Wānaka chapter of BNI meets weekly at 7am Tuesday morning.

Great networking opportunity to grow your business.

Contact Randal Dobbs for information 021 973 043.

The Salvation Army Family Store is able to collect your donations, this service is available one day a week please phone the store on 443 5068 to make a booking.

Thanks to everyone who comes to Wastebusters to donate goods, shop and recycle.

Your support helps us work for zero waste and a resourceful community.

WANTED The Salvation Army Family Store requires a volunteer to assist our van driver Danny on a Thursday with pick-ups and deliveries. If this sounds like you, please pop into the store for some more information.

Lifting of furniture will be required.

The Salvation Army Family Store requires good quality household goods, if you can help this would be appreciated.

Your donations can be dropped at 48 Helwick street or phone for a pick up 443 5068.

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COMMUNITY LAW are here Thursday 8th April. Call Community Networks to make an appointment. 443 7799.

Alpine Community Development Trust (governance body for Community Networks Wānaka and LINK Upper Clutha) AGM. Tuesday 13th April 5 pm at Wānaka Community Hub. JP SERVICES are available at Community Networks every Tuesday from 1-2pm and Friday from 10:3011:30am. Please book your appointment by ringing Community Networks on 443 7799.

WHEELS TO DUNSTAN is our community “door to door” shuttle service to Dunstan Hospital, Alexandra specialist appointments, and links with the St John Health Shuttle to Dunedin Hospital. For bookings, please call Community Networks on 443 7799.

The Food Bank is here to help the community.

If you need a food parcel, please call Community Networks on 443 7799 or pop in and see us at the Community Hub, 34 McDougall St. Feeling a bit anxious, overwhelmed or just need someone to talk to? FREE CALL OR CALL 1737 anytime, 24 hours a day OR VISIT W W W.CO M M U N I T Y NETWORKS.CO.NZ AA driving licensing and endorsements. Wānaka Hotel 71 Ardmore St. Monday 12th April 8.30am-5.30pm.

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The Salvation Army Family Store is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 9.30am to 4pm and most statutory holidays. We look forward to seeing you in our wonderful store.

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Success for MAC at Karapiro A contingent of 11 students was selected from Mount Aspiring College (MAC) to attend the MAADI Cup Rowing Championships that took place at Lake Karapiro, Cambridge. With over 2500 athletes from around New Zealand the competition was fierce.

The regatta started with beautiful blue skies and calm waters – perfect racing conditions to get the heats underway.

Tao Hawkey-Hight competed in the repechage for the boys under 17 single sculls event.

Unfortunately, the competition was tough, and Hawkey-Hight was unable to secure himself a place in the semi-final. Tao came 5th, missing out by just one place in a very well contested race.

Aaron Maxwell made the semi-final of the boys under 18 single sculls. Battling hard he managed to get himself a new personal best by a solid 7 seconds. However he was not able to make a final, finishing in 8th place.

The boys double consisting of Aaron Maxwell and Tao Hawkey-Hight raced in the boys under 18 double sculls. In a brisk heat, the boys placed 7th just missing out on progressing on to the repechage.

Ruby Boyd came out with a 6th in the heats after a resilient battle in bumpy water unfortunately meaning she was eliminated from the girls under 16 single event.

Rowing her first ever 2km race in a single sculls event was Bella Sarginson. In the girls under 17 single sculls, she did phenomenally well finishing 8th in the semi-final.

To kick off Mt Aspiring College finals, Emma Stead and Emily Findlay raced in the girls under 18 double sculls, in a strong A-final, racing against the top schoolgirl rowers from New Zealand.

They came 8th which placed them 4th out of the South Island crews.

Emma Stead also raced in the B final of the girls under 18 single sculls where she finished 7th - a stellar effort of racing.

Emma Stead joined Lyla Chamberlain, Ruby Boyd, Samara Goodall with Thomas Mitchell firing some inspiration from the coxswain’s seat in the A final of the girls under 18 coxed quad sculls, where they were up against the top schoolgirl rowers from throughout the country.

MAC had an outstanding race crossing the line in 7th position. This crew was the third South Island crew to cross the finish line and due to the cancellation of the South Island Secondary Schools Regatta due to Covid, this crew took home the third-place medal for the South Island.

Taking the gold home after an extremely impressive A final of the girls under 17 coxed quad sculls was Pipi Horan, Emily Findlay, Bella Sarginson and Neve

PUBLIC NOTICE

N o t i c e b o a rd | P a p a P ā n u i QUEENSTOWN LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL PROPOSED DISTRICT PLAN - STAGE 3b Notice of Hearing 1st place in the A Final - girls under 17 coxed quad sculls – Pipi Horan, Emily Findlay, Thomas Mitchell (coxswain), Bella Sarginson and Neve Faed.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council hereby gives notice that, in accordance with clause 8B of the First Schedule to the Resource Management Act 1991, the Hearings Panel appointed to hear submissions on behalf of the Council on the Proposed District Plan (Stage 3 & 3b) will hear submissions and make recommendations on the following parts of the Proposed District Plan commencing at 9.00am on 22 June 2021: Stream 19 Rural Visitor Zone – Walter Peak (Submission #31024 Wayfare Group Limited & Submission #31050 Airbnb) Hearing Dates Stream 19: Date

Hearing Venue

22 June 2021

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Queenstown

The hearing will sit from 9.00am — 5.00pm. However if the Wayfare Group case is close to a conclusion at 5.00pm, it is anticipated that the Panel will sit late in order to complete the hearing that day.

The Indicative Hearing Schedule will be circulated by email to the two submitters, setting out the times for parties to attend. The Hearing Schedule and venues may be subject to change. A current schedule will be available and updated regularly on the website www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/district-plan/proposed-district-plan/hearings under the Stream 19 name. All parties who have confirmed their intention to speak will be emailed advice of any venue change.

PHOTOS: MAC

8th place in the A Final - girls under 18 single sculls – Emma Stead and Emily Findlay.

Faed with Thomas Mitchell who commanded them exceptionally from the coxswain’s seat. They had a top tier performance of 7.11 – their personal best and they set a new MAADI cup record time. A welldeserved podium finish of 1st place!

To bring an end to MADDI Cup for Mount Aspiring College, Pipi Horan and Emily Findlay encountered some extremely strong competition in the girls under 17 double sculls A final. The girls just missed out on a podium finish, finishing 4th after a long and hard-fought 2km in not the nicest of conditions.

A fun highlight of the regatta was getting to watch Thomas Mitchell being part of a coxswains quad 500m race. Thomas loved the experience of rowing in the havoc with over 150 coxswains taking part at once.

After a spectacular week away racing, the coaches Matt Rickard and David Ayres were impressed with how all the athletes performed.

Matt mentioned, “they should all be very proud of their achievements”.

Congratulations also to Pipi Horan and Emily Findlay who have been selected to trial for the North vs. South under 18 rowing squad based on their performance throughout the season.

– By Aaron Maxwell

Planners’ Reports and Submitter Evidence The planners’ reports (section 42a reports) and supporting information are available on the Queenstown Lakes District Council website listed under Stream 19: www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/district-plan/proposed-districtplan/hearings Submitter pre-lodged evidence will be loaded on the website once lodged.

Free online access to our website is available at QLDC libraries and offices.

Preparation for the Hearing The Panel Chair has issued directions in its procedural minute as to the conduct of the Hearing. All minutes issued by the Panel Chair can be viewed on the website at: www.qldc.govt.nz/your-council/district-plan/proposeddistrict-plan/hearings Submitters are advised to read the procedural minutes (Minutes 6, 12 & 13) in preparation for the hearing.

Submitters presenting expert evidence or with written material they wish to read longer than 2 A4 pages should have pre-lodged their evidence in accordance with the directions in those Minutes.

For further information on the hearing, please contact the Hearings Administrator at dp.hearings@qldc.govt.nz or 03 441 0499.

Amendment to the April 2021 Meeting Schedule Additional meeting: Hearing of submissions to the draft Hāwea Domain Reserve Management Plan - Supper Room, Lake Hāwea Community Centre, Myra Street, Hāwea. Thursday 22 April 2021 at 10.00am.

Private Bag 50072 | 47 Ardmore Street Wānaka Phone 03 443 0024 | www.qldc.govt.nz

The Contact Epic Mountain Bike race will commence at 7.00am on Saturday the 17th of April, 2021 on the dam at Lake Hawea. Over 600 riders will circumnavigate Lake Hawea via SH6, Meads Road and return to Lake Hawea via the Dingle Burn Rd. A smaller group of 50 will be riding on a short section of Domain Rd, utilising the Lake Hawea River and Newcastle tracks.

While all tracks and roads remain open to the public, event organisers apologise for any inconvenience and encourage the public, spectators and supporters to limit vehicle and foot traffic on these roads and tracks if possible to ensure the safety of all competitors and other road, track users alike.

For any further information please Contact the Race Director, Aaron Nicholson at LMS Events on 027 443 6090

PHOTO: Fiona Murray

Undeterred by poor weather, 35 runners took part in pop up trail run/adventure event Gritt at the weekend. The course was initially set to cover the full length of the Skyline Track, summiting both Mt Alpha and Mt Roy, but was moved to a more sheltered part of the trail (from Spotts Creek to Mt Alpha and back) due to the rain and wind. Nevertheless, organiser Craig Murray said the runners “all said they had a great time and enjoyed a beer at the end… It would not have been possible without our amazing group of volunteers and sponsors.” The fastest time for the 23km course was Jack Harris with a time of 2:29:24.

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A hard red card for WAFC Premiers Wānaka AFC Premiers travelled once again to Dunedin for their fourth round match in the OTD Southern Premiership against Green Island (GI) with a revised squad from last week.

Barry Grehan, Ethan Arratia, Levi Fletcher, and Angus Mcdonald were all out injured. Alex Wright, Adam Harms and Izaak Emmanuel all came into the matchday squad with Harms and Wright getting their first starts of the season.

GI, at home for the first time this season, applied early pressure as Wānaka struggled to get out of their own half, under pressure from GI’s pressing game and the prevailing westerly wind which they were playing into.

Twenty minutes in and GI went up 1-0 when a diagonal through ball was missed

by Wānaka. Conor Spear found the ball at his feet and calmly passed under the advancing Josh Shackleton, the Wānaka’s keeper, into the back of the net.

This lifted GI and they started to look dangerous but to Wānaka’s credit they stuck to their game plan and were nearly rewarded with an equaliser in the 25th minute.

Captain Thomas Van-Hees started a move from his box that resulted in Wānaka’s Wright heading over the GI

crossbar from close range after a great overlapping run and cross from Hodgson.

GI also threatened and a succession of free-kicks and corners went close to adding to the scoreline but Shackleton mopped up those opportunities.

In the 35th minute, Wānaka equalised, referee Caleb Marsh awarded a penalty for a handball to the bemusement of the GI team and supporters and Wānaka’s striker Steve Pleskun hit a low shot into the GI goal to level the scores, 1-1.

There was late drama as the half time whistle was due to blow. Hewson ran on to a well-weighted through ball and the covering defender Van Hees mirrored the run goal side of the advancing striker.

Stride for stride in the penalty box.

Hewson went down and the ball ran out of play. Van Hees still on his feet was deemed to have fouled the striker according to the assistant referee who had raised his flag.

Marsh awarded a penalty and a yellow card to Van Hees. He had been booked earlier in the game so a subsequent red card was then shown reducing the visiting team to ten men- a decision that had a big impact on the game.

Wānaka had dominated the previous 15 minutes and looked to be deservedly going into half time on an equal footing.

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GI skipper Tom Milton scored the penalty to give GI a 2-1 half time lead.

The second half and GI delivered another telling blow as Hewson was first to a low right-wing cross and side-footed past Shackleton to put the home team 3-1 up in the 47th minute.

GI now had a firm grip on the game as Wānaka struggled to adjust to the revised formation they now played.

Wānaka started to adjust and looked to be getting back into the game but Hewson scored again from what can only be described as a suspiciously offside position.

4-1 down in the 60th minute and down to 10 men the writing was on the wall for the Wānaka team but they dug deep and were next to score in the 70th minute; a near carbon copy of the Wright chance in the first half this time resulted in Brandon Dickson scoring from close range and giving Wānaka a real sniff at getting a point.

That sniff was snuffed out almost immediately as GI pounced to get their fifth after a misplaced pass by Shackleton was intercepted by a GI midfielder and the possession turned over resulting in another close-range cross and finish.

Wānaka introduced fresh legs as

WAFC Premiers match Man of the Match, 18 year old Toa Roode.

16-year-olds Izaak Emmanuel and Jack Lanigan replaced Wright and Harms and continued to look for another goal.

Final score 5-2 to GI, a slightly flattering score and another tough away game for Wānaka.

Man of the match for Wānaka went to 18-Year-old Toa Roode who continues to show silky skills to go with his improving work rate.

In the Central Otago League (COL), the WAFC Premier Reserves went down to Charruas

PHOTOS: WAFC

FC 8-1 in a very disappointing result and the WAFC 3rd team went down to Queenstown AFC Youth 6-1.

Next week is a doubleheader at the Wānaka Recreation Centre.

The WAFC Premier Reserves take on the Queenstown Falcons in the COL at 12:45 in the curtain-raiser to the main event, a Southern Premiership match where Wānaka AFC Premiers take on their archrivals Queenstown Rovers in the local derby at 2-45 pm.

– By WAFC

Community events & street performance

EVENT

ONE LINER

PLACE

Festival opening – Te Taki o te Ua and Us!

Enjoy a dance/music performance as the festival kicks off

Lake Wanaka Centre outdoor stage 5pm

The Air Between Us

Marvel at a mid-air duet as two dancers launch themselves skywards

Dinosaur Park

7.30pm-8pm

Friday 16th and Saturday 17th

Te Taki o te Ua / The Sound of Rain

Watch dance/music videos that carry the power of rain and drought

Lake Wanaka Centre foyer

All day

Every day of the festival

Through the Eye of the Lens Check out photographs focussing on climate change

Outside Lake Wanaka Centre and Pacific Crystal Palace

All day

Every day of the festival

Windows over Wänaka

Artist Michel Tuffery works with Wänaka students to transform Helwick Street

Helwick Street shop windows

All day

Tuesday 13th to Sunday 18th

Lockdown Laundry

Tell Katja what it was like during lockdown

Bullock Creek Green

9.30-11.30am

Saturday 17th

Love Letters and Break-ups

Get a customised love letter written, or a break-up note! Outside Pacific Crystal Palace

12.30-3pm

Saturday 17th

Insecurity Guards

Take the chance to rid yourself of all those doubts

Wänaka streets

12-3pm

Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th

Rollicking Entertainment

See crazy performers doing crazy things

Wänaka streets

9.30-10.30am and 11.30-12.30pm

Saturday 17th

Cross the Line

Boy dancer meets girl skate-boarder

Skate Park

10-10.15am and 11-11.15am

Saturday 17th

Big Data

Bring your phone and go on a journey to some weird locations

Start at Big Fig

10.30am- 2.30pm

Saturday 17th

ACE brass

A trumpet, horn and trombone give you a blast

Kai Whakapai

10.30-11.30am

Saturday 17th

United Dance Crew!

Boogie along with these local dancers

Kai Whakapai

3pm

Saturday 17th

The 8th Count

See 22 Upper Hutt dancers perform their hearts out

Kai Whakapai

12 midday- 12.30pm Saturday 17th

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TIME

DATE Sunday 11th

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