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The Wanaka Sun caught up with the Wanaka Swim Club squad after its successful campaign at the Otago Championships. Pictured are (back row) WSC President Richard Fairbairn, Janus Staufenberg, Dylan Bradley, Noel Bisson, Nick Toepfer; (middle row) Julius Staufenberg, Leo Staufenberg, Jaime Toepfer, Jasmine Murray, Kobi Stevens, Wilf Spearing; (front row) Simone Johnson, Samantha Garrick, Phoebe Young with the Southland Triathlon Championship first Junior Female Trophy, Grace Heath, Emily Heath, Abbey Fisher, and Sophie Fairbairn with the Otago Open Breaststroke Trophy. Story page 16.

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There are calls for the growing number of stand-up paddle-boarders on Lake Wanaka to play by the rules, as the Navigational Safety Bylaw undergoes a statutory review.

Stand-up paddle-boarders (SUP) must wear a leash when they are within 200 metres of the shore and a life-jacket if they are further afield or on a river.

Lakeland Adventures Owner Simon Stewart said the rule was not widely known, or adhered to, and more needed to be done to publicise it.

Wanaka Kayaks, SUP and Sail Coowner Chris Thornton agreed many

stand-up paddle-boarders were unaware of the regulations.

The increasing popularity of the sport meant paddle-boards were now widely available and retailers did not

“Especially on a river, a full lifejacket is a must. If you fall off and hit your head…you don’t have any floatation,” Chris said.

Queenstown Lakes District Council

Especially on a river, a full life-jacket is a must. If you fall off and hit your head…you don’t have any floatation. always advise customers on safety.

“On the lake, people have the mentality with SUP that it’s safe and it certainly is a fantastic sport, but you have to address the conditions and anything that might happen.

Regulatory Manager Lee Webster said reviewing the bylaw was a statutory requirement.

Council staff were nearing the end of two weeks of informal consultation with commercial and recreational

users of the district’s lakes and rivers.

The draft bylaw would go before the council, probably in March, and, if adopted, would be put out for public comment in April.

Submissions would be heard before the final proposed bylaw went back before the council, for adoption.

“Rather than us at council developing what we think the community needs, let’s have the community advise us.”

Lee estimated the updated bylaw would come into effect in June.

Ramp fees and the fact some people were not paying them were issues being considered, he said.

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New Albert Town committee Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The Albert Town Community Association elected a new committee at its AGM earlier this month. The new committee is: chair Bruce Hebbard, secretary Raewyn Robertson, treasurer Kim Badger and members Sue Grant,

Bruce Barnett, Chris Aspinall and Jim Cowie.

Ella Lawton will be the Wanaka Community Board representative and Margaret Barrow is the former chair.

Ella said the committee is going to ask Infinity Investment Group to upgrade the track access from Sherwin Crescent in

Albert Town to Aubrey Road. She also said the association will be asking the council whose responsibility it is to keep verges cut and tidy, as this was a concern in the area.

The association plans to work on formalising its emergency response plans this year.

inbrief Talking to Rachel Wanaka Community Board Chair Rachel Brown will be available to talk to members of the public on the first Wednesday of every month at the QLDC Wanaka Service Centre in Ardmore Street. The first session will be next week on February 5. Rachel will be there between 11am and 1pm. “Members of the public can call in and raise any council-related issue or concern with me,” she said. Appointments will not be required. Rachel hopes other board members will be able to join her at the drop-in sessions.

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Coastguard training Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun Wanaka’s new Coastguard boat has just been issued with a Safe Ship Management certificate, meaning training volunteers to operate it can begin in earnest.

Coastguard Wanaka Lakes unit training officer, Jonathan Walmisley, said, although the vessel was only certified last week, it could have been used in an emergency as it had been granted dispensation by Coastguard New Zealand.

The certificate meant the 6.7m Naiad could now carry passengers, for example, other emergency services personnel.

The crew also required certificates to operate the boat, with a skipper needing 150 to 200 hours of on-board or other authorised training.

Jonathan said at present the organisation had just two qualified skippers – part-time Wanaka resident

Jim Talboys and merchant navy officer Jamie Rankin – both of whom were often away.

Coastguard New Zealand had issued five of the group’s senior crew members with temporary skipper certificates to alleviate the problem.

in training.

Another two or three people had also recently volunteered, Jonathan said.

“We’re always pleased to take people who believe they have the time and have some on-water experience and who wish

We’re always pleased to take people who believe they have the time and have some on-water experience and who wish to volunteer Now the boat was certified, training would begin twice a week – on Monday and Thursday evenings – and it was hoped volunteers would be able to attend one session a week.

The organisation had 19 members, but needed 24 – ideally four skippers, four senior crew members, eight “operational” crew members, plus people

to volunteer.”

In recent years, the organisation had attended one or two police callouts a year, and had helped one or two others in need who they had come across while training.

“If we’re called out, something has failed and that’s a shame, so we don’t worry if we’re not called out because it means people are safe and are looking

Questions about dogs Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The Queenstown Lakes District Council is surveying residents on whether the district needs a new Dog Control Bylaw.

“The Dog Control Act gives the council a lot of choices in how it regulates dog ownership and behaviour, but there are four areas that we think are particularly relevant to our district,” Regulatory Manager Lee Webster said.

The first is whether dogs should continue to be banned from specific public places, such as school playgrounds. The second is whether dogs should have to remain on a leash in specified

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places, such as the rural trails. The third is whether there should continue to be a limit on the number of dogs that can be kept at one

residential address and, if so, how many should be allowed as of right.

The fourth question is whether there’s a need for any land to be set aside

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after their boats.”

It cost about $15,000 a year to run the Wanaka Lakes Coastguard, as it was still building up its equipment.

Jonathan said he was grateful to the people who had bought raffle tickets during the recent annual national coastguard fundraising drive.

The amount raised was yet to be calculated, but the Wanaka group had sold about $8000 worth of tickets, of which they would keep around 70 per cent, he said.

Until the Wanaka group bought the $40,000 Naiad last year with grants from funding organisations, it had relied on using private boats for training and rescues.

The boat had been modified to become a rescue vessel, including the addition of electronic equipment donated by CoastguardDunedin.

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as dog exercise areas.

The link to the survey is on the homepage of the council’s website and will close on February 14.

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Bylaw under review ...Continued from page 1 Queenstown Lakes District Harbourmaster Marty Black said the fees were “many years out of date.

“When we don’t have staff on, many people don’t pay.”

It cost $4 to use a boat ramp and $30 for an annual pass, which covered all of the district’s boat ramps.

The annual fee was $80 to $100 in some other parts of the country, Marty said.

Wanaka’s boat ramps and jetties required upgrading, as Hawea’s had been. A new boat ramp was also needed at Eely Point. Many people launched their boats at Eely Point but, depending on the level of the lake, the angle could make it difficult and they needed a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

“If we didn’t have a team controlling it, it would be a nightmare with the numbers at Eely Point.”

WanakaYachtClubCommodore Quentin Smith said members were also keen to see better facilities at Eely Point and a second pontoon jetty at the marina. They were

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not opposed to a “reasonable” increase in ramp fees, providing it resulted in improved services.

The manoeuvring area and

toilets at the marina had been upgraded in recent years, but the boat ramp needed maintenance work and the trailer parking area

required improvements.

“There’s intensive use at times in Wanaka and the facilities should reflect that.”

Simon Stewart said the introduction of an assistant harbourmaster in the Wanaka area had made a huge difference to water safety.

“There’s an obvious influence on the behaviour of boaties. Craig (Blake) is doing a fantastic job, in my opinion.

“It was sorely needed - Marty Black’s area was just too big.

“Skippers’ behaviour has been very good this year. We have seen very few abusing the rules, one or two going too fast near the shore which is a little bit foolish, but by and large very good.”

Simon said “the message seemed to be getting through” to long-distance swimmers who had created safety concerns in recent years, by not staying in the designated swimmers’ area at the western end of Roy’s Bay. This had not been an issue this summer, he said, possibly due to Challenge Wanaka organisers’ publicising the swimmers’ area.

inbrief New water intake for Hawea Lake Hawea residents should be receiving water from new intake bores at Scott’s Beach before July, according to a report presented to the Wanaka Community Board on Tuesday. The new supply will be UV treated without chlorination, which WCB chair Rachel Brown said was a good thing as most Hawea people do not like chlorine in their water.

Currently a temporary chlorination system has been installed due to the elevated E. Coli levels found in the lake earlier this month.

QLDC infrastructure engineer Nichola Greaves told the board the highest concentration of E. Coli found in the lake during the problem was by a stream where there was livestock in the water.

Community board updates Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun The first Wanaka Community Board meeting of the year held on Tuesday included reports from all board members on groups they represent, liaise with or are trustees of, following an initiative of the new chair Rachel Brown.

Ross McRobie reported the Gigatown campaign committee is now focusing on what Wanaka will look like if it wins the campaign.

Ella Lawton said she hoped a Gigatown representative would discuss this at the next Shaping Our Future Innovation Forum.

Lyal Cocks, who had attended the Wanaka Residents Association AGM, said some people are still unsure how to support Gigatown, “especially those who are not media savvy”. The Gigatown

group is seeking permission to put temporary Gigatown signs up next to the Wanaka entrance signs. They would be made from high quality alloy panel. The project needs approval from the New Zealand Transport

would stop dust being an issue, and the lucerne would be sold as a cash crop.

Ella Lawton reported the Wanaka Alcohol Group is running a youth issues speaker series with the first one being held

Some people are still unsure how to support Gigatown, especially those who are not media savvy.

Agency and QLDC General Manager Infrastructure and Assets Erik Barnes.

Lyal reported that Wanaka Airport plans to irrigate the runway with water from Project Pure, and to grow lucerne on some other areas of airport land.

He said both these initiatives

in a fortnight. The topic will be Understanding Your Teenager.

Calum MacLeod, who liaises with the Lagarosiphon Management Team, said he will be going on the group’s field trip on February 13.

Each community board member is responsible for representing

the board at a local community association, as follows; Ella – Albert Town, Mike O’Connor – Cardrona Valley, Rachel – Hawea, Calum Luggate, Lyal - Makarora valley, Bryan Lloyd - Mount Barker, and Ross – Wanaka.

Other projects which individual community board members were allocated responsibility for - with regard to liaison, monitoring and communication - at Tuesday’s meeting included; the Wanaka Sports Facility (Ross); the Queenstown Convention Centre (Calum); the Review of the District Plan and any proposed plan changes such as those relating to the Northlake subdivision, and the Local Alcohol Plan (Ella); the Wanaka Lakeside Reserve Management Plan (Bryan); and Project Groundswell (Rachel).

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inbrief Library forums Wanaka Community Board Chair Rachel Brown asked members to spread the word about public forums on present and future library services which are being held on Monday (February 3).These have been organised by the council. There will be a forum the Lake Wanaka Centre at 5.30pm and a second at the Lake Hawea Community Centre at 7pm.

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Dump opening hours criticised Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun A Wanaka ratepayer has criticised the opening hours at the transfer station and Wanaka Wastebusters agrees they should be extended.

Holiday homeowner Graeme Finch wrote to the Wanaka Sun describing the transfer station’s hours – of 11.30am to 3.30pm on seven days – as frustrating.

They were difficult enough for working property owners, but impossible for tradespeople and contractors who needed to be able to dispose of waste before or after work.

“For such an important service, surely there could be some coordinated service-friendly opening hours,” he wrote.

Graeme compared them to the Coromandel resort town of Whangamata, which had a usually resident population of 3471, compared to Wanaka’s 6474.

Its transfer station was open from 10am or 10.30am until 5.30pm, except on Sundays when it was open until 7.30pm.

Wanaka’s transfer station was run by private company Otago Southland Waste Services, on

behalf of the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

The green-waste disposal facility – which was also run by a private company, Ecco Landscapes - kept the same hours as the transfer station, except at weekends when it was open from 10am until 4pm.

The council’s Queenstown transfer station was open from

“We spend quite a lot of time talking to people about it.

“We’d like to see them open longer and preferably the same hours as Wastebusters.”

Deputy Mayor Lyal Cocks said the transfer station and greenwaste facility’s open hours were driven by demand – they were user-pays services and the revenue

We spend quite a lot of time talking to people about it. We’d like to see them open longer and preferably the same hours as Wastebusters.

8am until 5pm on seven days and the Central Otago District Council’s transfer stations in Alexandra and Cromwell were open from 10am until 5pm on seven days.

Wanaka Wastebusters spokesperson Gina Dempster said the community-owned facility, which was open from 9am to 5pm on seven days, received a lot of inquiries about the green-waste facility and, to a lesser extent, the transfer station.

needed to cover the costs.

Queenstown’s transfer station was open for nine hours a day, compared to Wanaka’s four hours, because the greater population demanded and funded it.

“You can always review things based on demand from the community, but when it has a user-pays system it has to be a viable arrangement,” Lyal said.

The council’s Chief Engineer Ulrich Glasner said requests to increase the transfer station’s

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opening hours were received in 2000, 2004 and 2007.

The hours were boosted to the current level in 2000 at an additional cost of $4335 a year, but the requests were declined in the subsequent years as the council decided the revenue would not cover the extra cost.

Lyal Cocks said it was likely the transfer station and green-waste facility’s opening hours would be reviewed this year, as part of a council and Wastebusters project to increase the amount of waste diverted from the landfill, from where it had plateaued at about 30 percent.

The Ballantyne Road entrance to the three facilities – the transfer station, green-waste and recycling – was going to be “rearranged” so people had to drive through the recycling facility to get to the transfer station.

The three facilities’ opening hours would need to “marry up,” Lyal said.

“We need to do something different. We need to encourage people taking their waste to the transfer station to go via Wastebusters to assess the recycling options.”

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Roll increases expected Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun As Wanaka’s housing and population growth hits the headlines, the area’s schools are also expecting significant roll increases.

Mount Aspiring College anticipated about 750 students would start the school year next week.

However, Principal Wayne Bosley said the final figure would not be known until the school year was underway.

The initial estimate was 40 students more than last year.

Wanaka Primary School Principal Wendy Bamford said the school’s roll would be “well over 500” by the time the new entrants were added to the known roll of 484 year two to eight pupils.

ForMinistryofEducation funding purposes, the school had analysed the number of pre-schoolers who would join it during 2014 and estimated the roll would be more than 600 by the end of the year, including 120 new entrants.

The school started 2013 with just over 450 pupils and ended the year with 550.

Wendy said part of the roll growth was due to “lots of new families” moving to Wanaka, from Cambodia, Britain, Australia and Auckland, among other places.

Hawea Flat School Principal Sue Heath said 165 pupils were expected to start the school year next week, compared to 145 at the beginning of 2013.

Children from families which were new to the area made up about half of the increase. The balance was due to the oldest child of local families starting school, along with the

younger siblings of existing pupils.

The Holy Family Catholic School could not be contacted.

Wayne Bosley said “so many contractors worked really well together” over the school’s summer holiday to complete a wide range of work at the college.

The interior of the gymnasium had been

far as property is concerned.

If we pull that off, we’ll be rapt,” Wayne said.

Major development projects were also planned at Wanaka Primary School this year.

Wendy Bamford said, subject to final Ministry of Education approval, construction of “pod seven” would be completed in term four.

to ease congestion when children were dropped off or collected, Wendy said.

At Hawea Flat School, work to modernise three classrooms would begin during the latter part of term one, with “breakout spaces” being added, Sue Heath said.

The school was awaiting a Ministry of Education decision on whether

So many contractors worked really well together over the school’s summer holiday to complete a wide range of work at the college. repainted and the indoor playing surfaces refurbished; the student and public toilets in the administration block had been upgraded; half a dozen classrooms and the administration block had been re-carpeted and the driveways had been resurfaced.

The college was awaiting a Ministry of Education decision on whether it could rebuild or refurbish a block of four classrooms into “modern learning spaces” this year.

“That’s our major goal as

The pod would increase the number of classrooms at the school by four, taking it to 28, and enable it to cater for up to 700 pupils.

Thanks to a Lions Foundation grant, stage three of the hall would also be built during the first term.

Storage space and a music room would be added to the existing hall and gymnasium, kitchen and meeting rooms.

The school’s car parks would also be extended or made more efficient,

another classroom would be built to cater for the increasing number of pupils, with the roll predicted to continue to grow.

The school had also sought Ministry of Education approval to remove an enrolment scheme which stipulated the area from which it could accept new pupils.

The scheme was not necessary as the growth was largely coming from within the school’s zone, Sue said.

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Two days to go Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun With only two days to go until the tenth Rippon Festival, organisers Lake Wanaka Sounz are advising festival goers to bring their tickets, cushions or blanket, warm clothes, low seat, sun-screen, sunglasses, umbrella, hat, photo ID, cash (eftpos is available but no cash

out) and an empty water bottle. They also advise what not to bring which includes liquor or liquids of any kind, dogs, bean bags, tents or gazebos, invalid tickets or glass.

This year’s line-up includes, on the main stage, P Digsss, KPz, Anika Moa, Sunshine Sound System, Ria Hall, Arma Del Amor, Peacekeepers, Estere and DJ Reno (Shapeshifter),

and in the Rippon Hall, GoldMembers will be treated to sets from Warren Maxwell, Jesse Sheehan, Zoe Moon, Thomas Oliver, and Danny Fairley with Martine Harding.

Held every two years by not-for-profit group Lake Wanaka Sounz, more than $80,000 has been donated to community groups since the first festival in 1997.

New faces in the staff-room Wanaka schools will welcome many new faces in the staff-room, as well as the playground, when term one starts next week.

Mount Aspiring College has a new head of the maths department, Cameron Flude, and a new year seven teacher, Gemma Thompson.

Liz Breslin joins the college’s staff as the year 13 “student in the community co-ordinator,” while Taryn Balle is the new sports co-ordinator.

There would be five new staff at Wanaka Primary School, including year five and six teacher David Fitzgerald, who was moving from Cromwell College.

The primary school’s other four new teachers all came from Canterbury Jennie Lyall, Michelle Green and Hannah Chisholm were all year three and four teachers, while Anne Jenkins taught years two and three.

Tarryn Copland would join Hawea Flat School to teach year three and four pupils.

The Holy Family Catholic School could not be contacted, but it announced last year a new principal would join the school in 2014.

Bernadette Beech would replace Paul Cartlidge, who had been the acting principal.

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Teenager pleads guilty Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Albert Town teenager Monty Vass pleaded guilty to various drug related charges in the Queenstown District Court this week.

Senior Sergeant Allan Grindell said he has been remanded for sentencing in March.

Eight people, ranging in age from 19 to 49, were arrested on December 1 last year in an operation which Senior Sergeant Malcolm Inglis said involved largescale dealings in LSD and Ecstasy. Senior Sergeant Inglis is part of the Southern District Police Organised Crime Squad. He said police seized large quantities of LSD, MDMA (Ecstasy) and cannabis in the Wanaka bust, dubbed Operation

Viking, which targeted the flow of Class A and B drugs into the area.

The operation began in July last year. A police media release said undercover police officers were used “to infiltrate the local

the ski or adventure sports industries, or participating in the rave scene, they are being used and abused by all social groups across our community,” Senior Sergeant Inglis said.

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There has been a huge amount of police work gone into this, including staff working long hours and weekends to achieve a result. drug scene”. As part of the operation, police identified several people working in Wanaka during the ski season who had been dealing in Class A and B drugs.

“These drugs are destined not only for the young people who are working in

staff worked on the operation supported by the Southern District Organised Crime Squad.

“There has been a huge amount of police work gone into this, including staff working long hours and weekends to achieve a result,” he said.

Understanding teenagers and alcohol The Wanaka Alcohol Group’s first initiative of 2014 is to bring neuroscientist Nathan Mikaere Wallis to town for educational sessions about alcohol and the teenage brain.

Nathan is a Canterbury University lecturer, Brainwave Trust trainer, teacher, child therapist, and parent. He will meet with students, educators, and parents during his visit. The community evening will be held on Monday February 10 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the Wanaka Presbyterian Community Church Centre on Tenby Street (gold coin donation on the door).

Nathan will explain why teenagers think, feel, and act the way they do; discuss the latest research about alcohol and drugs in the teenage years; and help parents understand and communicate with their teens.

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New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir Concert review A sell-out audience was captivated at a concert in the Lake Wanaka Centre on Friday (January 24) by the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir. The students w e r e s e le cte d f r o m across the country and were at a study camp in Queenstown, but gave very well attended concerts in Wanaka and Alexandra.

The choir gave the appearance of thorough enjoyment of their singing, they revelled in the close harmonies of their songs and their effortless stage movements delighted the audience who gave them a standing ovation for their performance.

The repertoire was very wide, from works by Mozart and

Brahms to modern New Zealand composers and Polynesian songs.

Highlights included the entry songs Jerusalem and Gaudete and Maori and Samoan songs, but the audience favourite was an American song “Cloudburst” which was able to evoke much of the feeling of a sudden passing storm.

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ambassadors, they will represent New Zealand superbly well with their mix of classical, folk, modern and regional music.

Wanaka is lucky to have heard these fine young singers and we wish them well with their forthcoming international tour.

- Dennis Pezaro

Lakeside defibrillator Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Lake Hawea now has an automatic external defibrillator (AED) available 24 hours a day and plans are underway to get one for Hawea Flat. The Lake Hawea defibrillator is located on the veranda of the community centre and was provided by St John, with 50 percent funding from the Central Lakes Trust. The balance was paid by the Lake Hawea Hotel ($769) through its fishing competition, the Hawea Bowling Club ($1000) and the Hawea Community Association ($666).

Pictured with the defibrillator are Hawea Community Association Treasurer and St John First Aid Tutor Ian Rae, Lake Hawea Hotel Manager Anthony Alderson and Hawea Bowling Club President Marj Morrish.

“Users of the Lake Hawea Community Centre and surrounding residents are encouraged to use it in conjunction with CPR in any emergency involving a person who has stopped breathing,” Ian said. “The downside of non-breathing is cardiac arrest,

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following which the patient requires immediate CPR followed by defibrillation.”

Ian said CPR and early defibrillation give a patient in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival. “Given that the closest ambulance to Lake Hawea is based in Wanaka and in excess of 15 minutes away, we took advantage of special funding being offered by the Central Lakes Trust to purchase the AED. AEDs are usually found in areas of highest risk and these tend to be community facilities, sporting clubs, and areas where large groups of people gather.

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Centre was seen as a prime location for one.”

Ian said the Hawea Flat defibrillator could be located at the school.

The Central Lakes Trust has funded two CPR/AED training sessions. “Although the AED is essentially automatic, knowledge of CPR and how to use it increases the confidence of the user,” Ian said. He is running the training sessions for the main users of the community centre and surrounding facilities. Library staff at the Hawea Library were trained in CPR and AED five years ago and undergo regular first aid refresher training.

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Free Maori language courses Never Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Te Reo Maori teacher Jeromy van Riel (pictured) is hoping to run another Maori language class for adult beginners this year. Since Te Reo classes started in Wanaka seven years ago, he has taught 500 students in the area.

“I’ve had a wide range of people doing the course, from doctors and teachers to beneficiaries,” Jeromy said.

“Maori is being used more and more in our little town.

People get so much out of learning a second language, especially a national language.

It gives us a sense of identity and national pride.”

He already has 15 third year students signed up to complete diplomas in Te Ara Reo this year, and others ready to take on their second year of study. However, he has plenty space for students in the beginners’ class. They need to commit to one class on a weekday evening for 30 weeks.

One of his second year pupils is retired doctor Dennis Pezaro. “I think it’s important to learn the second language

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of our country and it helps understand the Maori culture,” Dennis said. “And Jeromy’s a truly superb teacher with

a huge amount of wisdom.”

Another pupil, icecream maker Tracey Bullock, is about to begin her third year

of study. “We moved to New Zealand [from Australia] and I had always loved the sound of the language. It’s so beautiful and it’s also a great way to learn about the myths and legends and the culture too.”

Jeromy plans to teach a course in bone and stone carving in 2015, and a prerequisite will be to have some Maori language skills.

“Students need that to understand the philosophy and essence of the carving art and to bring in the integrity of real grassroots New Zealand culture,” he said. “There’s already heaps of interest. It will be a course I love teaching.”

While Jeromy is well known locally as a Te Reo teacher, he is less well known as a carver.

His work has been on display in Te Papa for the past two years and he has sold pieces locally and abroad. Jeromy also teaches classes in tikanga (Maori customs and lore).

His classes are run through Te Wananga O Aotearoa in conjunction with the Southern Institute of Technology and are free.

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Library association needs new team Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun The Wanaka Public Libraries Association is in need of a new chair, secretary and treasurer.

The current chair Nicola Martinovich and her family have moved to Christchurch, and secretary Kate Bariletti and treasurer Jan Janata are planning to travel around the United States for a year.

“The US law has changed and now Jan can go into the

USA and be recognised as my spouse,” Kate said. “So we are hoping to head off and have some adventures while we can.” Kate said she and Jan would like to travel around the States in a RV (recreational vehicle).

Kate hopes people will volunteer for the WPLA vacancies before the AGM which is on February 20.

“The hard work of getting systems started and records in place has been done,” she

said. “Jan and I will help new people into the roles and give them plenty of tips to make their jobs easier.”

The WPLA was set up in April last year when it became apparent local libraries could lose staff under the QLDC Organisational Review. Despite the association’s efforts, several people lost their jobs at the Wanaka library.

The WPLA conducted a major survey of user satisfaction with local libraries in August

A decade of celebration The tenth annual Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration (COPNC) began today at Queenstown’s St Moritz.

COPNC Chair, Jen Parr of Terra Sancta, said everyone was looking forward to kicking off the three-day programme in the “vibrant and inviting” Rata restaurant. For the first time, the celebration will officially begin on the Thursday night at Josh Emett’s restaurant, while the Friday night Winemakers’ Party will be hosted at a secret venue and Saturday’s “Downtown Lunch” event will take place at St Moritz.

During the festivities delegates will have the opportunity to meet a comprehensive range of Central Otago winegrowers, with 40 producers collaborating to host the event.

The Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration takes place each year for two consecutive years, with every third year consigned to the Pinot Noir NZ Celebration in Wellington. Its aim is to bring together the wine world’s leading writers and commentators, together with wine and food enthusiasts to experience Central Otago’s best wine, cuisine and sights.

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last year, before the staff cuts were made, and plans to do another one this August. The association also organises monthly performances in the library and weekly sessions where seniors read to preschoolers. In November last year, the association hosted a picnic to recognise the work of local librarians.

The next performance in the library will be by sisters Taylor and Kirsten Jongsma, on Saturday February 8.

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New fish and game draft plan Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun

Summer on the way?

After a month of unsettled weather, with temperatures fluctuating from a low of 2 degrees Celsius to a high of 27 degrees Celsius and peak wind gusts recorded at 80kph, the highest temperature in the country was recorded in Wanaka on Tuesday. The MetService recorded temperatures in Wanaka at 26.2 degrees Celsius and Hamilton 2 degrees lower on 24.1 degrees Celsius.

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Extra care needed as schools re-open With children returning to school after the summer break, New Zealand Police are reminding motorists to take extra care on the roads.

“With schools across the country reopening over this week and next, and with traffic flows in these areas returning to normal levels, let’s do everything we can to safeguard our kids as they walk and cycle to school – some of them for the first time,” Superintendent Carey Griffiths, National Manager Road Policing, said. “New pedestrians and cyclists are still building confidence and don’t have the ability to anticipate dangerous situations. They are vulnerable road users, so it’s critical that we encourage them to take extra care.”

Wanaka Police will be following school buses and enforcing speed limits in school zones. They are warning motorists who travel more than 4kph above the speed limit in a school zone will receive an infringement notice. A 20kph speed limit applies to vehicles passing a stationary school bus that has stopped for the purposes of picking up or dropping off students.

The Otago Fish & Game Council has publicly notified its new draft sports fish and gamebird management plan for Otago, and now welcomes submissions.

Otago Fish & Game Council Chief Executive Niall Watson described it as the fish and game equivalent of the regional water plan or district plan.

“It’s a statutory plan developed and eventually approved under the Conservation Act 1987 that guides how we manage Otago’s extensive fishing and hunting resources, and also how we advocate to other organisations in protecting and enhancing this public natural resource for the benefit

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of future generations.”

New aspects of the plan include a focus on advocacy to regional and district councils to protect fisheries against declines in water quality, quantity and the natural character

of Otago’s waterways, and establishment of explicit criteria for determining the significance of fish and game resources, and an alignment with similar types of plans produced by the Department

Star-studded amateur field ticketgiveaway The New Zealand Open will be held from February 27 to March 2 at The Hills and Millbrook Resort golf courses. The tournament incorporates a Pro-Am format that brings together a blend of professional and amateur golfers.

The NZ Open will have a minimum professional field of 132 players who will play the first two rounds alternately at The Hills and Millbrook, before the second round cut of 60 + ties.

The NZ Open Champion will be the leading player after 72 holes of stroke play. The NZ Pro-Am Championship will run concurrently to the main tournament. A minimum of 132 amateurs will partner with a professional and play in a bestball format. The top 35 pro-am teams will progress to round three at The Hills and the top ten pro-am teams will progress to play in the final round.

The amateur field includes sporting legends such as World Cup winning Wallabies Captain Nick Farr-Jones, former Australian rugby professional Wendell Sailor (pictured), former All Blacks Jeff Wilson and Justin Marshall, and cricketing legends Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Stephen Fleming.

The Wanaka Sun has a double season pass to attend all four days of the NZ Open tournament. To enter, like our facebook page www.facebook.com/WanakaSun, go to the competition post and tell us which two golf clubs will host the 2014 NZ Open. To complete your entry you must tag #GigatownWanaka and #NZOpen.

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of Conservation.

The plan can be viewed at the Dunedin office of the Council, or on the Otago Fish & Game website. The submission period runs until Friday, March 28.

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wastewater CODC Donation for hospice consent issued Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun

The Wanaka Upper Clutha Lady Lions Club has raised $11,500 for the hospice. They raised $6000 with a 2014 heritage calendar and $5500 with a fundraising walk.

Pam Kane (pictured) chose a photograph of her husband Collin’s grandmother for the April photograph of the calendar. “Everyone said it was such a great photo,” she said. The photograph of Agnes Marett with her hens is called “After Church” and was taken in the mid-1960s. Agnes was the late Elsie Kane’s mother. This is the second year in a row Pam has collected photographs from around the district for a fundraising calendar.

The Lions raised $5500 with their “Walk for Our Hospice”. People entered teams of four and everyone in the team wore a pedometer. The winning team was the Heaton Park Walkers (Judith McLeary, Katrina Kreft, Maree Sandri and Bob McLeary) who walked 1836.97 kilometres, the equivalent of the distance from Wanaka via the West Coast to Nelson and back down the East Coast to Alexandra. The team donated the monetary equivalent of their prize, which was a special dinner, to the Wanaka community foodbank to be used for Christmas food parcels.

The Lions will present a cheque to the Upper Clutha Hospice Trust at its monthly meeting on February 12 at the Albert Town Tavern.

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The Central Otago District Council (CODC) has been issued with a 35-year resource consent from the Otago Regional Council (ORC) for the operation of its Cromwell and Bannockburn wastewater treatment system.

CODC Capital Works Programme Manager Peter Greenwood said the district council was pleased to reach this milestone after a number of years of investigations and consultation around Cromwell’s longterm wastewater treatment solution.

Cromwell Community Board Chairman and Deputy Mayor Neil Gillespie said he was

“looking forward to the implementation of the works programme that will deliver improvements to the wastewater system

future growth and development in a sustainable manner.”

The main conditions of the consents, which are subject

This is the single most important infrastructure project that Cromwell has seen since the redevelopment of Cromwell associated with the Clyde Dam. resulting in better environmental and community outcomes.”

“This is the single most important infrastructure project that Cromwell has seen since the redevelopment of Cromwell associated with the Clyde Dam and it will ensure that Cromwell is able to accommodate

to a 15-workingday appeal period, include Cromwell Pond desludging

by November 2015; upgraded treatment completed by January 2019; and E.Coli (bacterial) levels lowered to 260cfu/100mm (bathing water quality) by January 2019.

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F i v e y o u n g Polynesians wowed a Wanaka audience with poems about their cultures and identities at the Masonic Lodge on Tuesday night.

The South Auckland Poets Collective was in Wanaka to perform in the Outspoken Festival of Words

and Storytelling. Led

by Dietrich Soakai, the other poets who came south were Marina Alefosio, Luti Richards, Olive Asi and Ryan Tuera (pictured).

Dietrich is proud to claim German, Irish, Scottish, Tongan and Samoan descent. As well as performing and teaching poetry all over New Zealand,

and more recently in the United States, Dietrich is a youth worker with Youthline.

His poems ranged from one about reasons to skydive to one about troubled youth. All the poets drew on their own experiences, and an aim of the collective is to use poetry as a tool for social change.

A standout poem was

one by Luti Richard about her much-loved father who now has Alzheimer’s.

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Whistling and humming Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Anna van Riel is launching her Whistle and Hum Tour album on Friday, February 7, at The Nook in Hawea.

The album was made in Wanaka through contra-trading. Anna and her husband Locky Urquhart traded skills, items (such as garden produce) and time with

people who helped them put the album together, especially audio engineer and producer Danny Fairley.

Last year Anna took the album on a three month sustainable house tour of North America, and in February/March she is touring Otago, Southland and Canterbury.

This includes a performance as guest artist at the Southland A&P Show.

The album has been described as “a collection of quirky cabaret, bluegrass and folk numbers.”

Anna also plans to make a short documentary with footage from the sustainable house tour. “I want to showcase how to bring together an international tour that supports and utilises local businesses and creativity, and is financially viable,” she said. The film will be a free resource.

Cromwell couple spin big Cromwell couple Ann and Phill spun and won $150,000 on the Winning Wheel on Saturday.

The self-titled “Grey Nomads” are excited about their win and would like to take a holiday to celebrate, they are also considering early retirement or maybe buying a holiday home on the beach.

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New Hawea track possible Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun The Hawea community could be on the way to having a walking and cycling track from Hawea Flat to the lake, depending on a decision being made by the Queenstown Lakes District Council today.

Council is deciding whether to allow negotiations to be completed with owners of a property adjacent to the Hawea Domain Reserve. The owners have agreed to consider a land exchange which would enable a public walkway to be formed across rural land from Domain Road through to Camp Hill Road. This means people would be able to walk or cycle from Lake Hawea township to the Hawea Flat School. Members of the Hawea Flat community and the Upper Clutha Tracks Trust

have been looking at possible routes for a track connecting the flat with the township for many years.

“Our primary focus is for children to be able to bike safely to school from Lake Hawea,” tracks trust member Grant Fyfe said. “Gladstone Road is too

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dangerous for primary school children to bike on. It’s narrow and straight and people go fast.

There is no room around it for a safe biking track.” Grant said the option of going via the Hawea River Track would add four kilometres to a journey which was already long enough

for young school children, and would still involve biking on a busy road. “The land swap is the best solution,” he said.

Because it would involve part of the public reserve, the land swap would need to be publically notified. If submissions were received there would be a hearing and the matter would need to be considered by the full council. The swap would require the approval of the Minister of Conservation (because the land was vested from the Crown) and Ngai Tahu would need to be consulted.

The community’s wish for a walking and cycling track from Lake Hawea to Hawea Flat was first formally identified in 2003, during the Wanaka 2020 process, and has been included in the Hawea Flat School Transport Plan.

crimescene Unknown intruder, medicine thief On January 23 a miniature rose and a sign were stolen from the Alpine Motel. On January 25 a kayak, which had been chained to a backpackers in Brownston Street, was stolen. On the same day a wing mirror was stolen from a car parked at a motel in Brownston Street.

On January 26, the occupants of a motel room on Lakeside Road were woken at approximately 1am by an unknown male climbing through the window. When the male was confronted, he ran away.

During the week one driver was apprehended for drink driving after being observed driving on Aubrey Road.

A 20-year-old Auckland resident was arrested for the theft of cold and flu medicines during the week and received a pre-charge warning.

If you have information on any crimes call 0800CRIMESTOPPER (0800555111).

Signage rules set to improve Signage rules in the Queenstown Lakes District are set to improve. Rules governing where and how much signage is allowed in the district are under review.

Councillors will consider a recommendation to simplify the rules around commercial signage as part of proposed Plan Change 48. “The goal is for less red tape and cost for property owners and tenants and a less complex process for gaining resource consents for new or replacement signs,” General Manager Planning and Development Marc Bretherton said.

At present, signs are considered non-complying activities under the District Plan. A report being considered today recommends erecting signs should become a permitted activity as long as they are within an approved “sign platform,” which would then enable existing signs to be altered or replaced without further approval.

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Locals represented at Big Easy Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun More than 300 athletes took part in the Big Easy 48km mountain bike race and the 30km “Soft Option”, the mountain marathon, and the Lil’ Easy 18km Family Fun ride on Saturday from the Snow Farm to the Albert Town Tavern.

There was a strong

local contingent in the Big Easy mountain bike race throughout the age group categories.

Phoebe Young and Paul Wright won the Big Easy mountain bike race in the under-19 male and female categories, followed by Wanaka’s Mikala Harvey and Alex Young respectively.

In the open and 19-34

male category, Dougal Allan won first place in a time of 2:01:44. Jo Williams won the 35-49 female category, followed by another local Fiona Reid.

In the open and 1934 Mountain Marathon female and male categories, Miriam Bielski and Wanaka’s Grant Guise were placed first.

Final World Cup race Wanaka’s Katharine Eustace finished seventh in Koenigssee, Germany, in the final World Cup race of the season before the Olympic Games in Sochi. With Olympic qualification over, it was a race for points to ensure a good starting order for the Sochi race.

Katharine said it was a strange race.

“I finished seventh, which I should be pleased with, but had actually been sliding better in training. With a bit of snow on the track I didn’t get quite the clean lines that I wanted and so I was disappointed. Luckily the track in Sochi is fully covered, which means that the disadvantage that can occur when snow is falling to the latter sliders will not happen.”

The Olympic skeleton races take place on February 13 - 15.

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I WOULD LIKE TO USE THE PHOTO IN THE BAD EXAMPLE COLUMN AS AN EXAMPLE, ALSO THIS IS AN ACT OF COURTESY FOR ROAD USERS. WALKERS AND WHEELCHAIR USERS KNOW THAT AND LOOK AT THE NICELY MANICURED LAWN, NOT EXACTLY AN OBSTACLE IS IT. A LITTLE COURTESY GOES ALONG WAY .GIVE AND TAKE.

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BY DUCK HUNTER / ROAD SIGNS LOGIC WE SHOULD ALL GO AND FISH THE PROTECTED EELS AND TROUT AT THE LOG CABIN! BECAUSE WE ALL KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO TROUT A FEW METRES FURTHER DOWN THE LAKE. DUH. OF COURSE THERE SHOULD BE SIGNS FOR DUCKS.

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ARE BOATS ALLOWED TO MOOR IN BREMNER BAY? DON`T YOU HAVE A LAKE FULL OF LOVELY SECLUDED BEACHES TO ACCESS? TOO MANY KIDS THERE TO HAVE BOATS COMING IN NO MATTER HOW SLOW YOU GO.

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Alan & Wendy Cruden 57.89% 2.

Maggie Stratford, Mary GibsonCollings 57.02% 3. Friday Bridge 24 January. North/South:- Alan Cruden, Errol Kelly 58.33% 1.

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wyne Haworth, Daphne Stewart 69.70%1. Gordon & Gail Freeman 60.04% 2. Barbara Waterworth, Shona Watt 59.09% 3.

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Wanaka athletes dominate team Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Eight Wanaka athletes feature among the 15 who have been named in the New Zealand Olympic Winter Team in snowboard, freeski, alpine skiing, ice speed skating and skeleton.

For 12 of the 15 team members it will be their first Olympics.

“New Zealand has had some strong results in the adrenaline-filled freeski and snowboard disciplines and we’re delighted that our athletes will be at Sochi 2014 competing in cutting edge Olympic sports,” New Zealand Olympic Committee CEO Kereyn Smith said.

“We also welcome back athletes competing in ice speed skating and skeleton where selection criteria has been tougher than in previous years.”

First time Olympian, skeleton racer Katharine Eustace, finished her qualification season with

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strong performances.

“It’s great to be going to Sochi with some of my best ever results. I just need to make sure that I am consistent over the four runs and I believe anything is possible,” she said. “I’m very proud to be representing New Zealand and excited to be competing at the pinnacle event in our sport.”

Another local female competitor, Rebecca “Bex” Sinclair, (pictured) the only park-and-pipe athlete who has been to the Olympic Winter Games before, has made

an encouraging comeback from serious injury, and is now sitting 12th on international rankings and second on the World Cup circuit.

“It’s been four long years and we’re looking to maintain the recent strong momentum heading into the Olympic Games and deliver the results that the team is capable of,” Head Coach of the Olympic park-and-pipe snow sports team Tom Willmott said. “The recent momentum gained at the final qualifying events has given the team a boost

and we will travel to Sochi with pride and confidence, ready to perform on the world’s biggest sporting stage.”

Wanaka athletes in the New Zealand Olympic Team for Sochi 2014 are Janina Kuzma, Lyndon Sheehan and Byron Wells competing in freeski halfpipe; Jossi and BeauJames Wells Wells in freeski halfpipe and slopestyle; Katharine Eustace in skeleton; Stefi Luxton in snowboard slopestyle; and Rebecca Sinclair in snowboard halfpipe.

The team also includes Shelly Gotlieb (Ohakune), Christy Prior (Auckland) and Rebecca Torr (Te Puke) all competing in snowboard slopestyle; Ben Sandford (Rotorua) in skeleton, Adam Barwood (Queenstown) in slalom and giant slalom; Anna Willcox (Auckland) in freeski slopestyle; and Shane Dobbin (Gold Coast, Australia) in ice speed skating – long track.

Personal best for Oska Oska Inkster-Baynes (pictured left) and Lorenz Kissling (pictured right) have been racing the Athletics NZ Grand Prix Circuit during the past week.

Oska ran a new personal best of 8:29 in the 3000m to place third in Wellington on Friday. Lorenz was also placed third in the Cooks Classic Jr 1500m race in a time of 4:05.

Oska will be racing with the NZ 10,000m championships on Sunday night in Auckland. Lorenz, who is going back to university in February, will be preparing for the National Club Championships in Wellington in March.

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Reserves cricket The Albion Reserves played Alexandra at Pembroke Park last weekend and came away with the win.

Albion’s target of 230/6 with contributions from Tim Dorma, 31, Andrew Thomson, 97no, and Jake Nicol, 11no. Alexandra was all out for 157. Shane Bruce took two wickets for 17 runs for the home team.

Otago swimming champions Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The Otago Championships used a split format this year with the under-12s racing in December at the end of the school term and the 13s and over racing last weekend.

The Wanaka Swim Club squad had some outstanding results, including overall 10 and under male champion Jack Findlay, overall ten and under female champion Emily Heath and second overall male under-12 champion Wilf Spearing. Hamish McLean broke six New Zealand Para records.

“The Otago Champs overall were two very successful meets for our swimmers. We had many swimmers qualify for national and international swim meets and many personal best times were swum,” Coach Fiona Hezinger said. “The 12 and under swimmers struggled with the change of timing to their competition, being right at the end of the school year, but they swam admirably. The seniors, however, managed to cash in on some hard training over the summer holidays and had a wonderful meet last weekend.”

In other clubs news, Sophie Fairbairn and Dylan Bradley have

qualified for and will be attending the National Age Group Champs in Wellington this May. The club has also had good triathlon results recently with many of the fitness squad taking part in the swim leg of Challenge Wanaka, as well as in several triathlons around the country in the build-up to the NZ Secondary Schools Champs in March.

Six junior swimmers from the club - Jaime Toepfer, Jas Murray, Jack Findlay, Fergus Read, Shanae Sanders and Emily Heath - will also compete at the Junior Nationals in Wellington (February 14 – 16).

THIS WEEK AT FITZYS

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Great Craic. $10 pizzas every night till late Open from 4pm Monday - Sunday Want to play live or use the pub as a daytime rehearsal space? Pop in for a chat!

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