Wanaka Sun 17 - 23 April 2014

Commercial free lakefront option A suggestion in the draft Wanaka Lakefront Reserves Management Plan (WLRMP) that commercial facilities be removed from reserve land in Roys Bay, once their leases expire, has upset Lakeland Adventures co-owner Simon Stewart. PAGE 2

Community patrols set to start The Upper Clutha’s new community patrol is on target to begin operating on July 1. PAGE 3

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Thursday’s MACStock, showcased an “exciting range of talent,” according to MAC Head of Music Angela Mote. The Lake Wanaka Centre was packed with students as young as ten who danced and screamed their way through the night in true rock concert style. “It was great to see so many enthusiastic younger students in the audience,” Angela said.

“It really inspires them.”

Angela said the star of the night was John Steven. “We’re pretty short of drummers and so he performed 15 times,” she said. She also singled out four Year 10 musicians as “ones to watch in the future,” Morgan Allen, Tyler Bailey, Lucan Smith and Anna Edwards.

Pictured on stage are Ella Glynn, Sam Hadida and Isaac Bell.

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People are being advised to arrive at the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow early, if they want to avoid traffic delays.

The three-day biennial event, which begins tomorrow at the Wanaka Airport, usually attracts about 50,000 people.

But general manager, Ed Taylor, said the traffic jams were not nearly as bad as they were during the early years of the airshow - which had been running for more than two decades – thanks to an effective traffic management plan.

“When I first came here ten years ago, the queues on Saturday morning went right back to town, to the Four

Square (supermarket).”

“They used to take the money at the road, which caused the traffic jams.”

During the last airshow in 2012, the wait was only about 20 minutes, Ed said.

But people wanting to avoid any delay should aim to arrive when the gates opened at 7am. The event would start at 7.30am when the static displays were opened, and the airshow would get underway at 10am. Most people arrived between 9am and 10am and the traffic management staff was able to close the road outside the airport on Saturday morning – the busiest time - to create two lanes into the event.

Ed said, if this was necessary, the road would probably be closed between 9am

and 11am.

A well-signposted detour from Wanaka would be in place for people wanting to avoid the Wanaka-Luggate road. It was via Camp Hill Road, Kane Road and the red bridge over the Clutha River at Luggate.

Ed asked motorists to give themselves 10 or 15 minutes to spare and to be patient, saying Warbirds Over Wanaka was an “important” event which injected more than $20 million into the regional economy.

As of yesterday evening, when the Wanaka Sun went to print, the MetService was forecasting light rain and fresh easterly winds on Friday, with a high of 14 degrees Celsius; rain at times on

Saturday with northerly winds and a high of 17 degrees; and rain easing to a few showers on Sunday, with winds turning to a cool south-west and a high of 15 degrees.

Ed said the weather had only ever affected the airshow once, when the start time was delayed by two hours on one day.

The static displays and the opportunity to view a wide variety of aircraft on the ground was not weather-dependent and, if the weather was inclement, the range of aircraft meant there were some which were suitable to fly in such conditions.

“If the weather’s inclement, we can adjust the flying programme to suit,” Ed said.

Assaulted policeman back on duty Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun A Wanaka police officer is back on duty despite allegedly being assaulted last week.

Haast man Peter John Barratt is accused of aggravated assault against Senior Constable Sean Hurley and threatening to kill both him and Constable Peter Reed.

Senior Sergeant Allan Grindell told the Wanaka Sun Peter Barratt also threatened to kill members of Snr Const Hurley’s family.

The incident happened last Thursday afternoon.

Road workers had contacted the police to advise them a suspected drunk-driver was travelling on State Highway 6 from Haast to Wanaka. Snr Const Hurley pulled Peter Barratt over at Makarora. When the 72-year-old failed a breath test, Snr Const Hurley asked

him to accompany him to the Wanaka Police Station.

Peter Barratt was sitting in the back of the police car, on the opposite side to Snr Const Hurley. He is accused of assaulting the police officer, who is 52, with his hands, which caused minor injuries to his head, eye and ribs.

Snr Const Hurley pulled over twice to restrain Peter Barratt, the second time at the Makarora Country Café where he called for back-up. A member of the public stayed with him until more police officers, the fire service and St John ambulance arrived.

Peter Barratt was handcuffed in the police car.

He was also charged with drink-driving when he appeared before a Justice of the Peace in the Queenstown District Court on Friday. He entered no plea and was remanded on bail to reappear in court on

April 28. His bail conditions included living at a house in Haast; reporting to the Haast Police Station daily; not driving; not drinking or entering a licensed premise, except a supermarket; not contacting Snr Const Hurley and not entering Wanaka unless it was to travel to court in Queenstown.

Snr Sgt Grindell said “thankfully” assaults against the police were uncommon in the Wanaka area.

“It’s obviously an issue single crews - particularly at night. Rural police are well aware they face these dangers and we just have to be very careful.”

“The incident highlights the unpredictability and difficulties of managing peoplewhohaveconsumed significant quantities of alcohol.”

Snr Const Hurley was treated at a Wanaka medical centre.

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Commercial free lakefront option Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun A suggestion in the draft Wanaka Lakefront Reserves Management Plan (WLRMP) that commercial facilities be removed from reserve land in Roys Bay, once their leases expire, has upset Lakeland Adventures co-owner Simon Stewart. Simon owns the log cabin and operates his business from there. His lease of the land expires in 2017.

“This has got the ability to ruin me,” he said. “How could I move the log cabin? There has always been a building here since I was a little kid.” Simon had not seen the draft management plan and said no-one had told him about it before he was approached by the Wanaka Sun. He said he will be making a submission on the proposal.

Submissions on the draft plan are due by May 5. The WLRMP

covers all lakeside reserves from Glendhu Bay to the Outlet. There are 14 in all, totalling 315 hectares.

The draft includes some overall objectives and others which are specific to particular reserves.

For the Roys Bay reserve, the draft plan suggests creating more open space in the area opposite the retail centre of town. This includes considering the removal of commercial facilities, which could be on non-reserve land, when their leases or licences expire.

It also suggests looking at the “rationalisation” of vehicle access routes and areas for car parking “without compromising the open space nature of the reserve.”

Another specific comment relating to the Roys Bay Reserve is that “buildings consistent with the objectives of this management plan will be allowed within the Roys Bay Reserve.”

The Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust steering group hopes its

proposed building will fit into this objective. It would be located on the lakefront at the western end of Roys Bay, and have storage space for sculls and kayaks, and changing and shower facilities.

It will not have areas for social activities, but will include public toilets and bike racks.

The groups behind the building include kayak, multi-sport, rowing and swimming clubs.

While consent for the proposed watersports building is not part of the current public consultation process, the final WLRMP will specify whether or not building will be allowed on the Roys Bay reserve, and the watersports facility steering group will be submitting on the draft plan. The committee includes Michael Sidey (chair), Heather Wellman, Kevin GingellKent, Nic Blennerhassett, Mick Hollyer, Marg Galloway, Graham McCambridge, Alastair Madill and John Mclean.

Cyanide incinerated Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun The cyanide found at a Bannockburn property last week has been disposed of, the Fire Service says.

Central and North Otago Manager Keith McIntosh said, on specialist advice, the poison was incinerated in a rural area and the remains were disposed of in a landfill.

The cyanide, which was in a solid form, was found at a rural property on the CromwellBannockburn road on Friday morning after residents of the area,

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who were concerned about the wellbeing of the person who lived in the house, alerted the police.

Central Otago SubArea Commander, Senior Sergeant Ian Kerrisk, said emergency services were called at 6.15am.

A 47-year-old man was locked inside the house, but was able to be removed at about 8am after the police negotiated with him for “some time.”

The property was cordoned off and all the emergency services staff at the scene – police, firefighters, ambulance staff, and district

and regional council officers – were dressed in protective clothing.

Decontamination procedures were carried out at the scene by the fire service’s Dunedin-based hazardous materials specialists, and everyone who was there was taken to the decontamination unit at Dunstan Hospital at Clyde.

The man, who would not face criminal charges, was being assisted by various agencies.

Snr Sgt Kerrisk said, while neighbours were warned to stay inside, there was no risk to anyone outside of the property.

A royal welcome to the region Hundreds of people – including a number of Upper Clutha residents – gathered outside Amisfield Winery and Shotover Jet, both near Queenstown, on Sunday to catch a glimpse of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. During their New Zealand tour, the Royal pair spent a day in Otago, in Dunedin and then wine-tasting and jetboating in Queenstown, before reportedly spending the night at the resort’s luxurious Matakauri Lodge. They tasted wine and food from throughout Otago, fortifying themselves ahead of a jetboat ride on the Shotover River. A Wanaka Sun reporter who was on the riverbank said both William and Kate were all smiles as the boat sped toward the famous Shotover Canyon. However, their jetboat driver, Wayne Paton, reported hearing a scream at once stage, which may or may not have been the Duchess.

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Community patrols set to start CAA to inspect wreckage Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun

Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun

The Upper Clutha’s new community patrol is on target to begin operating on July 1.

Community patrols have been instigated by the police in other parts of the country. Constable Mike Thomas of the Wanaka Police said 35 people had signed up to be a part of the community patrol and he was still taking registrations of interest. A committee had been formed to run the programme.

The chairperson Steve Worley said, at this stage, two-person patrols would operate on Friday and Saturday nights from about 9pm until 4am, and at large events.

They would cover all the towns in the Wanaka area, including Albert Town, Lake Hawea, Luggate and Cardrona.

The group would receive a set-up grant of $2000 from the Government, Steve said. It would

Civil Aviation Authority investigators remain in Wanaka examining a helicopter which crashed near Haast on Friday, killing two West Coast men.

Neale Gray, 54, of Hokitika, and Darryl Condon, 51, of Bruce Bay, died when the two-seater Hughes 300 helicopter crashed into the Fish River near the Gates of Haast on Friday night.

They had been flying from Wanaka to the West Coast.

The helicopter belonged to Neale Gray and he was believed to be flying it.

Rescue Coordination Centre spokesperson, Steve Rendle, said the

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also apply for grants from funding organisations and seek support from local businesses and community donations. The funding would go toward establishment costs, including a vehicle, camera, cellphone, radio, torches and a first aid kit, and ongoing operating costs.

The committee, which would

probably be reduced to five to seven members, was currently made up of, from left: Doug Brenssell, Mick Hollyer, Bruce Hebbard, Shelley Collins, Una Connolly, Paul Tamati, Adrian Page and Steve Worley, pictured with the police community liaison officer, Constable Mike Thomas.

organisation was alerted at 9.46pm by the Haast police, who had been advised at 9.15pm that the helicopter was overdue.

Following checks on whether the aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter had activated, two helicopter pilots with night-vision equipment began searching at 10.20pm.

Vehicles also searched from the road.

The aerial search ended at 12.35am when the weather closed in and resumed at 7.30am on Saturday.

The wreckage was found at 8.45am.

Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesperson Mike Richards said, despite the crash site being close to the road, it was difficult

to access and a search and rescue “Squirrel” helicopter was needed to recover the victims and the wreckage.

Police divers attached a winch from the “Squirrel” to the submerged wreckage.

It appeared the helicopter had crashed through trees before landing in the river, Mike Richards said.

The wreckage was taken to a hangar in Wanaka and two CAA investigators arrived on Monday morning to examine it.

The terrain and inclement weather prevented an inspection of the crash site, however, numerous photographs were taken to assist the investigation, Mike Richards said.

Police check up on liquor sales A Wanaka liquor store sold alcohol to a minor during a police operation on Friday.

Constable Mike Thomas, of the Wanaka Police, said an underage person visited nine local off-licences.

“We’re pleased with the results overall, but one sale to an underage person is one too many.”

Const Thomas declined to say which liquor store had sold to the minor, saying police were yet to speak to the shop’s management.

The police last ran a controlled purchase operation in December, when all the off-licences checked complied with the law.

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sunnews Safe driving this Easter Following the success of its reduced speed threshold campaign during the summer, which saw a significant reduction in road deaths and fewer injuries, from 4pm today police will again be strictly enforcing a 4kph reduced-speed threshold over the extended Easter/Anzac holiday break.

During the break, police say they will be out in force targeting speed, distraction, alcohol and other unsafe behaviours on the roads.

“This is a logical step given the unusually long holiday period and the fact that many people will be taking the whole 10 days off and travelling in greater numbers,” National Manager Road Policing, Superintendent Carey Griffiths, said.

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Another trustee resigns Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun A second member of the Wanaka Primary School Board of Trustees has resigned.

Jo McArthur, who was elected to the board as a parent representative about a year ago, resigned last week.

This followed the resignation about a fortnight ago of Richard Cubie, who once held the position of chairperson.

Jo McArthur, who teaches children with learning disabilities, said she was disappointed to resign.

However, she said she could not continue in the role because it was clear there was no intention to resolve the issues and concerns raised by some parents.

“I agree with Richard Cubie that the concerns that were raised are still on the table. It’s all very well to say they’re moving forward, but they still need to address some of the areas that resulted in the implementation of a LSM (limited statutory manager).”

The Ministry of Education appointed governance facilitator and mediator, Cleave Hay, whose

background was in human resources, to the role of limited statutory manager at the school in January.

He told the Wanaka Sun at the time he had been appointed to take over governance of staff and employment matters from the board, and to provide it with advice on governance,

advice and direction the LSM has provided to the board and expect Mr Hay to continue in his role assisting the board next term.”

Jo McArthur said individuals were being blamed for the board’s issues, rather than the “culture” which had created the problems.

“A real disservice has been

A real disservice has been done to the board over this process.

The issues and concerns have not been resolved and cannot be left unresolved. communication and processes.

In a statement, board chairperson Mike Thomas said the trustees’ resignations “allowed the Wanaka Primary School Board of Trustees to move forward again and put some of the previous governance issues behind it.”

“The board has a good relationship with the Principal, Dr (Wendy) Bamford, and the LSM, Mr Cleave Hay, and continues to work closely with them both.”

“We are pleased with the

done to the board over this process.”

“The issues and concerns have not been resolved and cannot be left unresolved.”

Jo McArthur said the board had always held the school’s teaching and administrative staff in the “highest regard” and had the community and school’s best interests at heart.

“The school community was never assured right from the beginning of this,” she said.

Richard Cubie told the Wanaka

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Sun last week that the way parents’ concerns and complaints were handled, and the fact they remained unresolved, was also behind his decision to resign.

He was also upset the board’s problems had been presented as being created by the board, saying that was not true and the board was made up of excellent people who wanted the best for the school and its pupils.

An excerpt from the summary of Cleave Hay’s report to the education ministry on any issues at the school said it was a “safe and effective learning environment” for the pupils and staff. “…I see no immediate risk to student engagement, progress and achievement outcomes…

There are some disaffected parents but not a disaffected community,” Cleave Hay said.

Mike Thomas said the board would decide this week how to replace the trustees and would focus on extending the school hall and car park and building the last pod of classrooms, as the school prepared for a roll exceeding 600 by the end of the year.

sunnews No rates increase The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s Draft Annual Plan proposes a zero rates increase (on average) for the second year in a row. The budget will be considered by councillors today and if the draft plan is adopted, it will be released for community consultation.

Seven specified “highlights” in the plan involving “significant decisions” include the Wanaka Sports Facility, library services and water metering.

The other four areas regarded as highlights are the convention centre in Queenstown, debt levels, community preferences for consultation, and improved ways to measure council performance.

Surcharge warning The Commerce Commission reinforced the message this week that Easter Saturday and Sunday are not public holidays, saying casual staff may not be covered under the Holidays Act and businesses must not mislead customers when applying a surcharge.

“Businesses can charge what they want and consumers can then make a decision to shop there. But it would be misleading under the Fair Trading Act to apply a surcharge on Saturday and Sunday and claim it was due to the Holidays Act,” Commission General Manager Competition, Kate Morrison said.

Pink and silver fundraising success Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Friday night’s Pink and Silver evening raised $15,500 for the family of Hawea three-yearold Bella Wright who is fighting leukaemia.

The evening was organised by four Wanaka women who hadn’t met Bella when they decided to hold the event.

“We spent all Friday decorating the Lake Bar with 700 balloons and that’s when Bella came in to meet us,” organiser Carol Little said. “She’s such a sweet little girl.”

Carol is pictured with the other three organisers Jody Tuff, Gemma Wilson and Gini Rudhall.

They sold 230 tickets to the event which included bubbly,

dancing, auctions and raffles. “[Musician] Bradley Craig played and sang all night,” Carol said. “If you want everyone up dancing at a party he’s your man.

And Matt Gunn did an amazing job with the lighting. I just want to thank all the businesses who supported us and all the people who came along. It was like a great big locals’ party.”

The prize for the person wearing the most pink went to Kenna Fraser from Makarora who was wearing 12 pink items.

“When I rang [Bella’s mother] Kelly to tell her how much we had raised she couldn’t talk, she just cried,” Carol said.

“What an amazing community we live in.”

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ANZAC commemorations Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun

Art prize raises money for school Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun PamelaMcBrideandJohn Charrington presented Friends of the Holy Family School representative Julia Hunt (pictured left) with a cheque for $14,000 last week.

The money was raised through the annual Aspiring Art Prize exhibition .

“It’s a donation for them to spend however they see fit,”John said. “iPads, whiteboards, books for the library, extra teaching time for kids who are struggling, sports equipment – wherever the greatest need is.

It’s there to benefit all the kids.”

John and Pamela have worked with Yeverley McCarthy on the

exhibition for seven years, and in that time have raised close to $100,000 for the school. ` “Tablets and iPads are the way of the future for schools,” John said. “They are a very useful teaching tool, and teachers can monitor whatthe children are doing on them.”

Themainsponsorofthe Aspiring Art Prize is Craigs Investment Partners.

John said they hope to make the competion a national one next year.

To date it has only been open to South Islanders.

It is held in January every year. “We hold it then because there are lots of people in town and the school is closed so we can run it without impinging on teaching time,” he said.

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ANZAC Day (April 25) will be commemorated in the Wanaka area with a dawn service at Lake Hawea and a mid-morning ceremony in Wanaka.

Coordinator, Commander Lyal Cocks (Royal New Zealand Navy, retired), said the dawn service would be held at the Lake Hawea Dam at 7am.

“Dawn services are always special and the location on the point overlooking Lake Hawea makes this service a very moving occasion.”

The local community would be involved in the service and there would be a wreathlaying ceremony, Lyal said.

The service in Wanaka would be held at the Lake Wanaka Centre at 9.30am.

“There will be a variety of items from young and old to appropriately mark this remembrance ceremony.”

Afterwards, Major Ian Piercy (2/4 Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment) would call the Parade to order and march through Wanaka to the bottom of the memorial

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hill on Chalmers Street.

A wreath-laying ceremony would be held at the hilltop memorial.

“It’s a wonderful place to pay tribute.”

“The view from the memorial across Lake Wanaka is a fitting reminder of how fortunate and thankful we are for the sacrifices made by the people we

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remember on ANZAC Day,” Lyal said.

ANZAC Day poppies are being sold today outside the Wanaka Post Office, New World, Paper Plus and the Doughbin.

People can also buy poppies this Saturday morning, April 19, outside New World and Paper Plus.

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New venue for exhibition Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun The Wanaka Arts Society has a new location for its annual Easter Exhibition. This year it is being held at The Venue, on Orchard Road.

“We’re very grateful to [co-owner] Maxine Smith for her generosity,” arts society committee member Kym Beaton said. “We’ve been looking for a site since January and it’s been hard finding something large enough for an exhibition of 160 works, that we can afford.” Kym said the society can probably use The Venue again next Easter, but is still looking for a location for its annual Labour Weekend exhibition.

This Easter’s exhibition is being judged by Chris and Gail de Jong from Octa Gallery in Cromwell.

It has a youth section for the second time and two students will be chosen from the ten student entrants to be sponsored to attend the Wanaka Autumn Art School next year. Last year sponsored places at the art school were won

by Mount Aspiring College student Byron Weastell and home-schooled student India Fitzgerald, who will attend the week-long school later this month.

The Easter exhibition features Albert Town photographer Barbara

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Lee as the guest artist. Originally from Scotland, Barbara, with her Kiwi husband Bill, has been living in the Upper Clutha for 14 years.

Barbara retired from her veterinary practise a year ago, which gave her more time for photography.

“My interest in photography started early on with a desire to record people, events and scenes that caught my eye, but in the old days of film, I lacked the commitment or finances to further this interest,”she said. “Then came the digital revolution – aha.”

Three years ago Barbara bought

a DSLR [digital single lens reflex] camera. “And since then I have been hooked... Some share their emotions through words; I do so through pixels.”

Brabara said her photography is more artistic than commercial, and she wants to do more than simply record what is there. “I am truly grateful for the vast creative opportunities photography offers, the pleasure it brings and I enjoy sharing that with others,” she said.

Pictured is Flaxen Flood, one of Barabara’s works which will be on display at the exhibition.

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Amateur astronomer Mike Hartley took this photograph of Tuesday night’s “Blood Moon” as seen above Wanaka. It was the first total lunar eclipse of the year and marked the start of an eclipse tetrad — four back-to-back total lunar eclipses — that will happen over the next 18 months. It occurs when the Earth’s shadow blocks out the sun’s light, casting a reddish veil over the moon.

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Joint venture care home Wanaka’s new residential care home will be a joint venture between Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) and the Aspiring Lifestyle Retirement Village.

Stage one of the three-stage residential care complex will include ten dementia and 18 home and hospital rooms along with the Upper Clutha Hospice rooms, and is expected to cost $5 million.

It is expected to employ up to 40 staff, from registered nurses to caregivers and support staff, providing four levels of care (rest home, hospital, dementia and hospice) when it opens at the end of 2015.

“To build a care facility on-site at Aspiring Lifestyle Retirement Village to provide priority care to our residents has long been our wish,” ALRV’s Chief Executive Aaron Armstrong said. “So we’re very pleased to have an operator of PSO’s experience and reputation as a partner in it.”

PSO Chief Executive Gillian Bremner said she was enthusiastic about the partnership. “We’re delighted to be able to use our experience in this way, and to provide dementia care in particular.”

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Skinks removed from Lindis to boost numbers Jessica Maddock Wanaka Sun Endangered skink species have been collected from the Grandview Range and taken to animal sanctuaries throughout the country, in an effort to boost their numbers.

Department of Conservation spokesperson Gavin Udy said 85 grand and Otago skinks were collected from their habitat in the Lindis during February and taken to zoos, wildlife parks and eco-sanctuaries.

Since then, 21 skinks had been born, he said.

The Department of Conservation’s Grand and Otago Skink Project, led by Gavin, aimed to increase the number of both species, before releasing them into secure sites within their original habitat.

The project looked after skinks in two areas – the western group in the Grandview Range and the eastern group near Macraes Flat.

Gavin said the eastern group was increasing in numbers thanks to an

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enclosure surrounded by predator-proof fencing and extensive trapping of predators.

The focus was now on increasing numbers in the western group, he said.

Grand and Otago skinks were native to the area and were two of New Zealand’s rarest reptiles.

They were once widespread in Otago, but were now largely restricted to DOC’s enclosure near Macraes Flat, with the Grandview Range population genetically distinct, Gavin said.

The Otago skink was one of the country’s largest lizards, reaching up to 30cm-long during

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its approximately 18year lifetime. They were distinctively-marked, with black skin and grey, green or yellowish blotches (pictured) and were known as mokomoko to southern Maori.

The Auckland and Wellington zoos were also involved in the project, along with the Kiwi Birdlife Park at Queenstown, the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust, the New Zealand Herpetological Society, the Zoo Aquarium Association, the Central Otago Ecological Trust, the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, the University of Otago and Air New Zealand.

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Spot your thespian neighbour Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Everyone in town must know someone acting in It’s Your Sh*t – a play about freedom camping which opens in Hawea on April 30.

The cast of 15 (pictured on set) ranges from a ten-yearold school boy to a local Japanese woman.

The play is written by Hawea Flat’s Liz Breslin and directed by former local and Toi Whakari Masters in Directing graduate Anna Shaw.

It stars former truck driver Richard Child and local journalist Tim Brewster.

They play a couple of West Coast mates who encounter an English couple honeymooning on the coast in a campervan.

The newly-weds are played by reservations manager Fi Armstrong (from Yorkshire) and MAC staff member Marcus Bate (from Lancaster).

“It’s the War of the Roses 500 years later,” Liz said.

Marcus is not the only MA C s ta f f mem ber i n t h e play; International Language Centre manager Claire Easterbrook plays an ABC

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reporter, and former Head of Music Lynne Christie plays a FOX reporter. Other cast members representing the media include Wanaka Community Board Chair Rachel Brown, childcare worker Enger Pelosi-Fear, designer Merle Schuster, goat farmer Dominic Stayne

(as seen in Hamlet last year) and Sasanoki co-owner Yumi Sasaki.

Tim’s character’s sister is the Minister of Internal Affairs and she is played by receptionist Alice Crowther.

The Prime Minister makes an appearance, in the guise of school bus driver, 75-year-old

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Dick Morrish; a community association busybody is played by drama teacher Gilly Pugh; and the local cop is played by ten-year-old Dylan Rimmer, who is the playwright’s son.

Dylan’s twin sister Lauren gets credits for costume, front of house and tea lady in the programme, and the producer is their father Jimmy, who also designed and built the set.

The play is a comedy about the complicated business of what to do with your sh*t when you are freedom camping.

“Comedy is all about timing,” Anna said. “The play is very funny, but it doesn’t undermine the seriousness of the issue. Ric Child’s character Jonno makes sure of that.

“But it’s a fine line between keeping the integrity of the play and making it ridiculous.”

Liz Breslin is confident Anna is getting it right. “It’s amazing having her here working this us,” Liz said.

“Everyone’s loving it.”

It’s Your Sh*t is on in the Hawea Flat Hall from April 30 until May 3.

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No more television recycling This could be a first for me – today I have to talk about something that Wanaka Wastebusters has stopped recycling. In the seven years I’ve been at Wastebusters, I can’t remember us ever taking anything off the list of things we accept for recycling. And this is a biggie – or rather two biggies – we are now no longer taking televisions or CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors for recycling. We will continue to recycle computer towers, laptops, servers, LCD monitors, printers, cables and toner cartridges.

It’s a sad day, because we’ve really tried our best to make television recycling work. But we’ve just had to face the fact that the problem is bigger than us. Over the last three years we’ve recycled 2575 televisions and CRT monitors from Wanaka, and another 1114 from Queenstown, most of them through the government’s “TV Takeback” programme. But unfortunately our recycling partner RCN E-waste is looking likely to “default on its obligation to process all the televisions it has collected during the programme” (according to Environment Minister Amy Adams), meaning they can’t process the televisions for the money that the government has contracted to pay them.

They have taken most of the televisions nationwide from TV Takeback (about 160,000), and now are sitting on a massive

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stockpile which has cost them a lot more money to collect, store and process than anyone initially expected. We’re still hopeful that a solution will be found that enables RCN E-waste to process the televisions for recycling.

The guts of the problem is that it costs more to recycle televisions than anyone wants to pay, whether it’s you and I or the government. They are heavy and cost heaps to transport, and there’s nothing in them that’s

valuable to help pay for the recycling costs. If we wanted to keep accepting televisions for recycling, we’d have to put our charge up to $40 per television, and we don’t think it’s fair to ask our community to pay that much. We also don’t want to add to RCN E-Waste’s woes by sending them more televisions or CRT monitors.

So, if you have an old television or CRT monitor in the garage, the best advice we can give is to hang on to it in

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the meantime. A compulsory product stewardship scheme is the only way to set up a longterm viable recycling scheme for these types of electronic waste. We’ll be keeping the pressure on the government and industry to find a solution, but we can’t keep picking up the pieces for them. Wastebusters guardian Matt Plant is pictured with some of the e-waste we’re going to continue to recycle.

- Gina Dempster

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crimescene Dangerous driving, theft A driver faces court action for driving while disqualified and drink driving. The person was stopped while driving after being observed driving badly.

Police advise if you witness dangerous driving and you have a passenger, get them to ring *555 to make a driving complaint.

A local male is going to court for a number of charges including drink driving, aggravated assault and threatening to kill.

A drunk male was arrested on Saturday for disorderly behaviour on Ardmore Street.

There was a report of theft of a large amount of cash from a bag at Puzzling World.

Police found and returned a stolen bicycle after reviewing CCTV of the theft.

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Six new primary classrooms Caroline Harker Wanaka Sun Local primary schools are expanding to meet the demands of their rapidly growing rolls, with at least six new classrooms to be built in the district by the end of the year.

Two are currently under construction at Holy Family School; tenders are being called for four at Wanaka Primary School, and one will be built at Hawea Flat School in Term 3.

Work is also underway on stage three of the Wanaka Primary School hall (pictured).

The extension of the hall will be a multi-use space with room for a foldaway stage, cupboards and a new music area.

“It will be very open and flexible and be able to be used for many things,” principal Wendy Bamford said. “The architects call it an ‘open green space’.” The extension will also include storage space accessible from the outside which the soccer club and other groups can use to store equipment, Wendy said. The extension will be finished and fully operational by the end of

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term two.

Meanwhile, the school is appointing a project manager for the building of the four new classrooms (pod seven) and will be calling for tenders for that project soon, and for another which involves a new

carpark with 30 spaces. This will be used by parents dropping off or collecting children, Wendy said.

At Hawea Flat School, the refurbishment of three classrooms is expected to begin in early May. This includes

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insulating the ceilings, installing new wall and floor coverings and adding new “breakout” spaces. The tender for this work was won by Stewarts Construction and the job is expected to take 14 to 16 weeks.

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hile our majestic mountain views and shimmering lake have played a part in Lake Wanaka being voted one of the top ten most romantic destinations in the world, our dedicated wedding professionals can bring the romance alive on your wedding day. From awardwinning photographers, qualified beauty therapists and make-up artists to skilled wedding cake designers and florists, there is a range of local professionals who specialise in making your big day an amazing day.

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Wedding Feature Photography Qualified Master of Photography John Foster tells us how to choose the best photographer for your special day: There are three important things you should keep in mind: the photographer’s personality, style and cost.

Your photographer is likely to spend much of the day with you so choose one whom you will get along with.

Browse through the photographer’s website to get a feel for the quality and style. (Do the couple look like they are having genuine fun?) Budget is the first thing we think of and soon discover how expensive it can be. You generally get what you pay for – photography is an art form after all. Invest your money on the best photographer rather than the best package.

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Flowers Whether for the bouquets, corsages or table arrangements, flowers will bring style, colour and fragrance to your wedding. When organising the flowers, you need to consider your colour scheme, the overall theme of the wedding and your budget.

There are a few points to bear in mind when choosing your flowers: Outof-season flowers will cost more than those in season and some varieties may not be available. Find out which flowers will last the day. Book early to give your florist enough time to order your flowers. Remember to bring along a sample piece of fabric from your wedding dress and your bridesmaids’ dresses.

Venue Whatever the style or size of your wedding, you’re sure to find a local venue to cater to your needs. From a traditional ceremony in a church with lake views, to a ceremony amongst the grapevines or set within historic woolsheds, the options are extensive. To find the perfect reception venue to suit your needs first ask yourself these questions: How many guests can the venue accommodate? Does the venue provide catering or can you bring your own? Do they have a wedding package and what does it include?

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Beauty Looking great on your wedding day starts right now: to help your skin and body look their best it’s important to drink lots of water, eat fruit and vegetables, exercise and get plenty of sleep.

“A long-lasting, softly applied but clearly defined bridal make-up is actually far from easy to create,” make-up artist and beauty therapist Nicola Romeril said. Get the professionals involved to ensure a flawless look, and make sure you do a trial run so you feel comfortable and relaxed with your hair and make-up.

“Be true to yourself and your personality,” Nicola said. “If your make-up doesn’t leave you looking like a gorgeous version of yourself and you see a stranger looking back at you in the mirror, then you will not feel comfortable on the day.”

Cakes Wedding cakes have come a long way since the traditional fruitcake. With options ranging from red velvet to Italian cream, from the simple to the sublime, from handmade edible petals to fresh flowers, or ribbons to stencils, your wedding cake can be as delicious to eat as it is to admire.

Your wedding cake forms the centre piece of your wedding reception and with a specialist wedding cake designer you can make it as traditional, contemporary or alternative as you like. When choosing the size of your cake, make sure it’s relative to the number of wedding guests, and take into account whether you are serving the cake as dessert alone, or in addition to another sweet course.

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Wedding dress When you first start looking at wedding dresses try on a range of styles to determine which silhouette flatters your figure. There are six main styles: empire, A-line, trumpet, mermaid, sheath and the ball gown. The empire gown suits a pear-shaped bride with a skirt which falls from just under the bust creating a long, slimming silhouette.

An A-line or princess gown is universally flattering. It features vertical seams flowing from the shoulders down to an a-line skirt. To show off your curves try a trumpet silhouette with a skirt which flows from below the hips or a mermaid silhouette which flows from the knees. A Sheath gown closely follows the silhouette of the body, suiting those who really want to show off their figure. The traditional ball gown is great for full and thin figures with a fitted bodice and a full bell-shaped skirt.

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First things first!

After the engagement, the planning starts, so for all the newly engaged couples out there we’ve compiled a list to help you figure out how you both really want to celebrate your wedding.

How

Where

Decide your budget early on. Prioritise what you want (are great photos a must or is an amazing location more important?) so you can spend more on those items at the top of the list and not on the things that are not important to you.

Do you dream of the sand beneath your toes while you say I do or a mountain-top vista to frame your nuptials?

With Wanaka’s stunning backdrop and extensive range of venues, every bride and groom will find a setting to suit their style, be it a relaxed garden wedding or a glamorous black-tie affair.

Who Defining your guest list can be tricky. Who do you want to share your special day with? Do you want to have a child-free zone, or are little ones welcome? Immediate family only or the entire whanau? Prioritise, and remember, it’s your day so do it your way.

What Will it be a church ceremony or a civil ceremony? Are you inspired by a colour or a theme? Are you dreaming of a small, intimate celebration or a large gathering?

Wanaka’s wedding professionals have years of experience and can help you expand on your ideas to orchestrate your perfect day.

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When With four stunning seasons, Wanaka’s natural beauty offers the perfect year-round setting. Do you want to revel in spectacular autumn colours or bask in a glorious summer day? Opting for a winter wedding, instead of the peak summer months, often means more availability in everything from venue hire to florists – so if you want a short engagement you won’t have long to wait!

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Students clock up the hours The Students in the Community programme at MAC began in 1995 and since then more than 33,000 volunteer hours have been given to the Wanaka community by Year 13 students.

The programme is an opportunity for students to create bonds with various sectors of their community and it is what the students gain from the experience that is the true triumph of the initiative.

Students are given a placement to attend for a minimum of 16 hours and two four-hour projects over the course of the year. In the strength of our community spirit however, students continue to go above and beyond their expectations.

Liz Breslin, the Students in the Community coordinator, is in her first year of running the programme and said she is “in awe of how students fit the community into their busy schedules including NCEA deadlines and other extracurricular commitments.”

Students tend to choose placements based on their interests, such as head boy Corey Fothergill, who is relishing the opportunity to coach an under-12 football team. “Not only am I able to pass on my skills and knowledge but the

seeing their faces light up.”

The average age inside the Aspiring Lifestyle Retirement Village drops slightly every Thursday afternoon when they receive visitors from the college. Resident Joy Easton praised the programme: “It’s

It makes me feel great that they really enjoy the music, there is nothing better than seeing their faces light up. kids teach me just as much about my leadership and where I can improve.”

Freedom Holloway is passionate about music. She plays the piano at Elmslie House on a Tuesday night.

It is making others happy which Freedom enjoys most, “It makes me feel great that they really enjoy the music, there is nothing better than

just a fellowship for us. Not only does it give us pleasure, we love the young ones, but it gives them experience. It is very useful to be able to talk to all walks of life.”

Past the initial feeling of accomplishment, the programme can lead to longerterm benefits for students too.

As a result of her placement at the Wanaka Community Pool,

hostel student Tove Schöni has been offered a part-time job which will serve as valuable work experience in future years.

Wanaka’s numerous events don’t go without notice either, so far students have been involved with Warbirds over Wanaka, the Motatapu Adventure Race and the #gigatownwanaka campaign.

The community gains practical help and support whilst students leave the programme with marketable skills and contacts. As our final year of Mount Aspiring College draws to a close, we will be forever grateful for the opportunities the SIC programme has given us and we can only hope we leave a legacy to this great community for years to come.

We urge upcoming senior students to take full advantage of their activity within the community, Carpe Diem.

- Gabi Yarrell and Eden Brown

MACStock Review Last Thursday, Mount Aspiring College held MACStock at the Lake Wanaka Centre and it went off with a bang. We had cover music from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Paramore, to Ed Sheeran and Tracy Chapman. There were smiles all round. The kids at the front of the mosh pit were enthusiastic and loved the songs from the music students. The two MCs, Eden Brown and Corey Fothergill, kept the night fun and lively with their audience interaction.

The music students worked very hard to learn and practice the songs they performed. It shows the determination and passion that the students have towards music. All round, it was a very good night with great music and happy people.

As Angela Mote, Head of Music explained, “MACStock gives students a real-life performance experience. It also inspires our young students.

This year’s MACStock was a high energy concert, with a range of genres to suit every taste.”

- Sam Hadida

Representing at the Maadi Cup From March 23 to 29, Lake Ruataniwha held the biggest secondary schools event in the southern hemisphere, the Maadi Cup. This year, more than 2100 rowers from 125 secondary schools participated in the rowing regatta, making it one of the largest to date.

Mount Aspiring College had eight representatives taking part in this prestigious event with Riley Bruce, Nathan Redai, Maddy Ball, Beth Gale, Olivia Pearce, Bridie Hurley, Helena Crawford and Alex Mitchell all

doing the school proud. There were some fantastic individual achievements; in particular, Riley Bruce, Nathan Redai and Olivia Pearce all stood out. Riley managed to row himself to a very impressive fourth place finish in the boys’ under-17 1X A final with a time of 7:45.79 and his cohort Nathan finshed heat 6 with a time of 8:20.96.

The dynamic duo also won a podium placing in the boys’ under-16 2X, crossing the finish line in first place with a time of 7:12.69 after a back and forth

race between eventual second place finishers Whakatane High School. Riley went on to place first boys’ under-16 1X with a time of 7:38.48. Olivia Pearce rowed hard to gain seventh place in the D final. Coach Rob Bruce said “the aspirations for the group are set, in consultation with the individuals. Some look at season by season, but others have a clear pathway to the representative goals. The Maadi cup has 2100 rowers in attendance, it is a huge event and each school is adopting the

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training based on miles make champions. Our winning crews rowed better quality trainings than most in the finals. A tough ask but necessary to compete.

I am proud of all of the rowers, winning or not.”

Tabs will be kept on these young rowers with their progress being tracked closely by the community and fingers-crossed they deliver many more personal bests and podium finishes.

- Marco Guglietta

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bookreview A review for the Wanaka Public Libraries Association

The Lost Ones

by Ace Atkins

The pleasure of discovering a new author cannot be underestimated.

It’s as satisfying as the revelation of a new friend. That pleasure, however, is somewhat tempered when one realises the “new” author is, in fact, a highly experienced writer who, for whatever reason, has just never before registered on one’s radar.

So it is with Ace Atkins, author of a number of Quinn Colson thrillers of whom, I ashamedly admit, I had no prior knowledge. How that can be is beyond my ken. Having consumed my first Ace Atkins novel, titled “The Lost Ones”, I rate his protagonist, Quinn Colson, alongside Elmore Leonard’s Raylan Givens, Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, or James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux – all flawed heroes, who have witnessed and suffered the cruelty of humanity, yet still have the moral fortitude to act nobly and the capacity for hope.

Colson has survived a bleak childhood, becoming a decorated serviceman, and now is the sheriff in a backwoods county in Mississippi, a place where he is as likely to arrest a guy he grew up with, as a gun runner from a Mexican cartel. Loyalties are tested.

Yet “The Lost Ones” is no paint-bynumbers whodunnit. It has unexpected depths, muddy pools which break the flow and simplicity of a traditional police procedural. Its title refers not only to the young children caught in a child adoption scam but also to those souls struggling to cope with the hand

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life’s dealt them, whether they be solo mothers recovering from drug addiction or returned servicemen trying to find new meaning to each day. It finishes on a quiet note of hope, leaving one with the desire to immediately read the next Quinn Colson thriller.

“The Lost Ones” is the second in the Quinn Colson series, with the original, “The Ranger”, establishing how it was Colson came to be sheriff. Each novel, however, can be read as a stand-alone story, complete without foreknowledge of the previous books in the series.

- D. Cocks

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100 hours of community service Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun

Maddison’s next goal was to receive an award for giving 200 hours of community service, which she was well on the way toward. The next milestone would be 500 hours. Only one other cadet had received the award, since the Wanaka youth division was formed five years ago. That was Bailey Masters, who was 16 at the time.

There was now a challenge among the other cadets to give 100 hours of community service, before Maddison reached her goal of 200 hours.

A ten-year-old cadet in the St John Wanaka Youth Division has received an award for giving 100 hours of service to the community. Maddison Frazer (pictured), of Albert Town, received a badge for her efforts. Maddison worked voluntarily for Warbirds Over Wanaka, Challenge Wanaka and the Winter Games. She also baked for the Cancer Society and worked voluntarily for the Brain Injury Association.

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Drumming workshops Drumming tutor, Robert “Koffie” Fugah, visited Wanaka Primary School last week. Koffie is from Ghana, but is living in Cromwell and has held drumming and dance workshops in schools and communities throughout New Zealand.

The school purchased 20 djembe drums and an electrical piano/ keyboard with the $3000 donation from Stars in their Eyes. Pictured are Room 16 students with the drums and some larger instruments lent to the school by Mount Aspiring College.

The teaching staff also enjoyed a professional development session with Koffie, and are now planning ways in which they can use the instruments.

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Excellence award for Games Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The Audi Quattro Winter Games won the award for Event Excellence at the annual Sport NZ Awards this week.

The third biennial Winter Games New Zealand was held in Wanaka, Queenstown and Naseby in August last year. It was a Winter Olympic qualifier, it offered world-ranking points and, for the first time, featured four FIS World Cup events and two IPC World Cup events.

Seventeen competitors at the Winter Games went on to win medals, including five gold medals, at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Team hope for better results Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The Mount Aspiring College 1st XV rugby team, now in its second season in the Highlanders 1st XV competition, is a combination of the rugby talents of Cromwell College, Wakatipu High School and Mount Aspiring College.

Nineteen players from MAC, two from Cromwell

and six from Wakatipu make up the team, which is coached by Hamish Crosbie and Mike Mason .

The team has completed its pre-season campaign with solid wins over Gore High School, Rockhampton Grammar School and a narrow loss to a highly-ranked school from Canberra (Charles Lucas is pictured claiming a clean lineout ball against Marist Canberra at a game

played in Queenstown).

Hamish feels this year’s team has more talent out wide and more depth throughout the squad and is confident of better results this season. The team, captained by Elliot Mason, has a two-day training camp during the holidays and will play its first competition game at home against Southland Boys High School 1st XV on May 10.

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“My whole team is excited to be recognised

by Sport NZ as the leading event in New Zealand. It gives us

the perfect platform to seek the necessary financial support for 2015 and 2017. Now we focus on delivering an

even better event next year,” Winter Games NZ chief executive, Arthur Klap, (pictured) said.

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Hot tennis in cold conditions Wanaka Tennis Veterans held their annual Quadrangular teams’ tournament last weekend.

Vigorous competitive tennis was enjoyed as teams of 12 kept warm in the unusually cold conditions.

Wanaka, ably led by club captain Doug Clarke (pictured), won all three fixtures against Upper Clutha 10-2, South Canterbury 8-4, and Southland 10-2. Upper Clutha, a combination team of

Cromwell and Wanaka players, drew with South Canterbury 6-6 but won on games count-back 86-76 and outplayed Southland 8-4.

The biggest smile of the day belonged to 76-year-old Don Kindley, playing for Wanaka, who mentored much younger players to win all six of his doubles and mixed doubles matches.

The event concluded with all 50-plus participants enjoying a barbecue in the sun.

sportbrief National series kicked off in Hamilton Mount Aspiring College students Stefan Schwarz, James Suddaby and Joel Suddaby competed in the first round of the Climbing New Zealand 2014 National Series in Hamilton on April 5 and 6.

James won the Youth C (born 2001/2002) lead competition with Joel fourth in the same event. Stefan placed eighth in the youth A (born 1997/1998) lead climbing competition and sixth in the bouldering competition.

The 2014 National Cup series consists of a three-round series held over a weekend with lead climbing on Saturday and bouldering on Sunday.

The second round of the series will be held on May 17 and 18 at Basecamp Wanaka.

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Alexandra beats Wanaka in howling wind Al Bertini Wanaka A travelled to Alexandra for last weekend’s fixture.

Off the back of two impressive wins, Wanaka dominated this soccer tie for the first 25 minutes and things looked promising.

They should have been twoup early on after some clear chances from the Wanaka strike force, but it wasn’t to be. They were rewarded after

30 minutes though, when Scotty Belsham netted the games opener, albeit with the help of the Alexandra keeper.

It was a scrappy goal but they all count and it was no more than Wanaka deserved.

Wanaka was hoping to add to its tally as it knew in the second half it would face an onslaught from Alexandra and, playing into the howling wind, it would be harder for Wanaka

to play a normal game.

Alexandra got off to a great start in the second half, capitalising on a defensive error to make it 1-1 to equalise shortly after halftime.

The pressure was on and a bad day at the office was compounded when an Alexandra midfielder picked up the ball on the edge off the box and fired a shot which deflected off Allan Carmichael’s leg and

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sailed into the top corner past the helpless Aaron Molloy.

At 2-1 down with 20 minutes to play, Wanaka surged forward throwing all its attacking options upfield but Alexandra held out to beat its old rivals for the first time in four years to win and go up to second on the table.

In the day’s other game, Wanaka Braves went down 2-11 to Wakatipu at the Queenstown Events Centre.

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Wings trophy up for grabs Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Twenty of the South Island’s best sprintcar drivers will race for the War of the Wings title tomorrow in Cromwell.

Sprintcar racing is “old school” racing where driver skill and courage is the difference between winning and losing.

Instinct is an important attribute, as well as trusting less experienced drivers not to make a mistake that could take out a leading driver, especially when the stakes are as high as the racing on Good Friday. On top of the prize money won by drivers at each round of War of the Wings, the title winner collects a $10,000 purse.

During round eight of the War of the Wings heat in Dunedin on February 15 there was a dramatic

“coming together” of Central Motor Speedway contracted drivers (pictured) Mark Evans (yellow), Andy Erskine (91T), Jason Scott (white) and Russell Jack (11T).

Jason was pushed back onto his wheels but was able to continue the heat,

as was Andy, despite losing the front wing. Russell’s car was unscathed and Mark was back for the next race. Jason went on to come second in the 25-lap points-scoring feature race.

There will be plenty of variety with a wide range

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of classes racing on Good Friday and Sunday’s Easter Champs from 4pm at Central Motor Speedway, including super saloons, saloons, six-shooters, productions, stockcars, youth and mini-stocks and motorcycle powered TQ midgets.

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In caveman times it may have been the weather, or a lion, lack of resources – things that are trying to kill you.

So how do we survive?

We work together, in our companies, our clubs, our tribes to come together to feel like we belong, to be around people who believe what we believe, to feel safe. When we are around people like that we feel safe, we can work together to face the dangers externally. Don’t forget that the dangers are constant, in a modern world it may be your competition that is trying to put you out of business, it may be the ebb and flow of the economy. Inside our organisations the dangers we face are not a constant, they are a variable and they are the decisions of leadership as to how safe they make us feel when we go to work. This is the job of leaders.

Too many businesses fight threats from inside, employees feel like they are too scared to make decisions, they are scared they might do something wrong and get fired. They invest energy, not in work, not in creativity, not in the

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If we go to work in a place where we don’t feel safe we are biologically less empathetic and less generous. We don’t protect each other because we are too busy trying to protect ourselves. “Our jobs are killing us, diabetes, cancers, depression and the people responsible are the leaders.” Simon Sinek.

Leadership is not a position, a rank – leadership is a decision, a choice. It has nothing to do with your position in the organisation. If you decide to look after

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sportbrief Double hat-trick for Jeff The Upper Clutha Hockey Club senior men’s team had a comfortable win on Monday night, beating Queenstown 7-0.

UCHC dominated play for long periods of the match though they struggled in the first 20 minutes to find a coherent shape to the team.

Mitchie Maluschnig’s first goal of the season opened the scoring for UCHC midway through the first half and Jeff Ward bagged a hat-trick before halftime for a first half score of 4-0. Jeff added a further three goals in the second half to round off the comprehensive win.

The men’s team play Cromwell next, in what is set to be a tougher fixture.

Braden Currie to lead world race Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Current Coast to Coast champion, Wanaka’s Braden Currie (pictured), will lead the way in the first ever Wings for Life World Run at Auckland’s Hampton Downs Raceway on May 4.

The global race will be contested concurrently on six continents, in almost 40 locations, with 100 percent of the registration fees going directly to Wings for Life, a not-forprofit foundation with a mission to find a cure for spinal cord injury.

Braden said participants should “run for fun, run for a challenge, run for New Zealand and run for those who can’t.”

Competitors will run in front of an advancing

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“catcher car.” Half-anhour after the runners start, the catcher car at every race around the world will begin at a set speed. Once a catcher car overtakes a runner

their race is over. This will continue until there’s one male and one female athlete in the world left running. Only they will be crowned Wings for Life World Run Champion.

“I like the feeling of being a part of something big, a global race. I also like the idea of being chased,” Braden said.

“This is a completely new aspect, and I’m looking

forward to this experience.

I think the catcher car will give me an extra boost of motivation and energy.”

Participants who enjoy a slower speed can walk with All Blacks’ fly-half Dan Carter, who is taking it easy due to an Achilles injury.

“Even if it is just walking with other participants, it makes me feel like I am helping such an amazing cause. Fans can walk or run alongside me and ask me whatever questions they like,” Dan said. “In rugby, there are far too many spinal injuries, so I am participating for those players.”

Participants of any fitness level can register online until April 27, by visiting the Wings for Life World Run website.

Wanaka athletes clean up at awards Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Wanaka athletes took out the majority of the Central Otago Sports Awards at a ceremony in Cromwell on Friday.

Paddle-boarder Annabel Anderson was named the senior sportswoman of the year before taking out the supreme title and winning the Bruce Grant Memorial Trophy. The awards

were based on the 2013 sporting year, in which Annabel won her second consecutive Stand Up World Tour Championship title, and her second consecutive “double-double” title in the Battle of the Paddle Championships for the short and long course.

The senior sportsman of the year award went to multisporter Braden Currie. Already this year Braden has won the Motutapu Xterra, defended his Coast to

Coast title and come third in Port of Tauranga Half Ironman 2014. In 2013 he won the Coast to Coast, in his first attempt at the race, and he also won the Lake Wanaka Half.

High Performance Sport New Zealand freeski coach, Bruce Wells, coach and father to Winter Olympians Jossi, Byron and Beau-James Wells, won the coach of the year title.

The sports team of the year

award went to the Wanaka Under-19 men’s rowing crew of Jamie Bowley, James Redai, Jarrod Wellman and Nicholas Jackson. The crew won Wanaka Rowing Club’s first national title at the national rowing championships.

Cyclists Liam Aitcheson and Sophie Williamson, of Alexandra, won the junior categories for the second consecutive year.

Brute force and sophistication Two extremes in motorsport will be in action at the Highlands Motorsport Park this weekend for the Festival of Speed.

At one end of the scale will be the Michael Schumacher Formula One Benetton Cosworth Grand Prix car, and at the other will be a huge Freightliner racing truck (pictured) that has the performance of a V8 Supercar.

The Benetton will be demonstrated by Highlands’ owner Tony Quinn during the lunch breaks at the classic meeting. The Freightliner truck, in which former Mataura mayor Inky Tulloch dominated truck racing from 2001 to 2003, gaining 66 podium finishes in 75 races before being retired, will come out of retirement to compete in the Highlands Fling.

Action at the Easter meet begins this Saturday at 9am and organisers advise event-goers to leave extra time to get to the venue early as possible traffic congestion near Wanaka Airport for the Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow may cause delays.

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EDITORIAL In the old days, Easter eggs were something you looked forward to and waited for until Easter Sunday. Hot cross buns were a strictly Good-Friday-only treat. How times have changed.

Easter eggs and hot cross buns have been in the shops for weeks. There aren’t many households today where the old-fashioned rules of restraint are adhered too.

And that may but a good thing. Or one could argue that, until recently anyway.

Now the world-famous Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit at Otago University has concluded that self-control is vital to success.

“Our 40-year study of 1000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor,” the professors wrote. It gets worse. “Children who showed early difficulty with self-control grew up to have poorer health, greater substance abuse, more financial difficulties, higher crime conviction rates, and lower parenting skills, even after controlling for the effects of IQ, social class and sex.”

Oh dear.

The only good news here is the best thing we can do for our children is to eat up all the treats ourselves.

For them, it’s hot cross buns on Friday, Easter eggs on Sunday. Nothing more.

THANK YOU.

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021 0849 0001 Issue 657 Thursday April 17, 2014 Free delivery to Wanaka, Wanaka surrounds and Cromwell urban and rural mailboxes, PO boxes in Makarora, Cromwell, Haast, Wanaka, Albert Town, Hawea. Distributed to motels, hotels and cafes plus businesses in the Wanaka central business district and to drop boxes in Wanaka and Cromwell.

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The article in last week’s Wanaka Sun regarding “Plans for Brownston Street Parking” has spurred me to put my concerns regarding the whole issue of parking on paper and ask for answers.

In the past I have personally been involved with businesses in the Wanaka CBD so I am aware of the importance of customer parking and therefore the viability of businesses. Over the years repeated questions about the parking issues in submissions and at public forums etc have not resulted in any resolutions.

Some years ago the requirement in the then District Scheme for businesses to provide parking based on their type of business was successful, and worked well, but eventually because some believed commercial land was too expensive to be used to provide for car parks, the requirement was removed from the District Scheme. It was understood that in lieu of providing car parks, developers would pay into a car parking fund.

This never happened with the result, because successive councils have never addressed or planned for parking in the CBD, they are constantly looking at ways to provide parking by targeting reserves and cluttering up our streets.

When council constructed the car park on Pembroke Park at the Dungarvon Street side, the Management Plan acknowledged that “These parks are used by people working in the town rather than bona-fide park users” and goes on to record that the council has the ability to put a time limit on the parks to encourage turnover.

This is a simple solution but it has never happened.

Ardmore Street is promoted as a slow traffic street with the speed bumps and route along the lake front. It is a very wide street and if the road had been sealed to the post and chain boundary of Pembroke Park from Dungarvon to Mc Dougall streets this would be the ideal street to have angle parking. A plan by local surveyors showed it would have been able to accommodate (with generous gaps) room for 115 cars.

Brownston Street is promoted as a through route and has been for many years. If the street was sealed to the post and chain fence of Pembroke Park there is ample room to have parallel parking on both sides of the street. The concept parking plan drawn up by the local surveyors showed 52 parallel parks can be accommodated on the park side of Brownston Street as well as providing for generous spacing. As the article in the Wanaka Sun pointed out there are fewer accidents with parallel parking.

I also wonder how long it will be before the recently constructed ‘separation barrier’ in the middle of Brownston Street at the McDougall-Brownston Street corner will have to be modified to make it easier and safer for the trucks to negotiate our street.

I would be very grateful for answers to the following questions: What plans have Council got to address the lack of parking in the Wanaka CBD? Why have time limits not been put on the Pembroke Park car parks at the Dungarvon Street end of the Park?

Who authorises work to be done before decisions are made as regards proposed plans?

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Trophies for local pony club Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun Hawea Wanaka Pony Club riders had a successful day at Sunday’s Central Otago Pony Club dressage and jumping day held at the Cromwell Pony Club grounds.

The HWPC team of Ellie Nesbit, Danielle Molloy, Hannah Humphreys and Montana Hewson won the Jennifer Kroon Memorial Trophy for the branch team with the most points in dressage.

The HWPC team of Ellie Nesbit, Zoe McNeilly, Alex Thomson and Molly Todd won the Glynne Smith Trophy for the most points in FEI and Round the Ring Jumping.

Pictured are (back) Ellie Nesbit, Hannah Humphreys, Jessie Fraser, Grace Thomson, Grace Lee, Caitlin Lumsden and Zoe McNeilly; (middle) Carter Hewson, Eva Humphreys, Montana Hewson, Molly Todd, Alex Thomson and Hannah Armstrong; and Danielle Molloy in front.

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Swimming success at championships Staff Reporter Wanaka Sun The 2014 Otago Primary and Secondary Schools Swimming Championships were held recently in Dunedin.

Mount Aspiring College sent a team of 14 swimmers who recorded some fantastic individual and team results.

The year seven and eight swimmers, who competed

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in the primary section of the championships, had some great results. Every swimmer from this team was placed in the top ten in every event they entered. Jack Findlay was first in the 50m backstroke, second in the 50m freestyle and third in the 50m breaststroke. Sam Knight was third in the 50m freestyle, Jasmine Murray was third in the 50m breaststroke, and Shanae Sanders was second

in the 50m backstroke.

In the secondary competition, MAC swimmers also won a number of podium places. Matt Henderson was first in the 50m breaststroke. Sophie Fairbairn was first in the 50m breaststroke and set a new record. She was second in the 50m freestyle and was third in the 50m butterfly.

Kenzie Findlay was third in both the 50m freestyle and the 50m butterfly. Mitchell

Worthington was third in 50m freestyle and the 50m backstroke.

Hamish McLean won his AWD category, swimming personal best times in every event over the weekend.

The MAC relay teams were exceptional, with the primary team coming second in the competition and the secondary team winning the freestyle and medley relays and setting new records in both events.

sport results TARRAS GOLF CLUB OPENING DAY Ambrose-1st Graeme Rive, Maire McElrea and Murray Hyndman nett 60.7, 2nd Carmel Hyndman, Holger Reinecke and Beau Trevathan 62.3, 3rd Bonar Rowley, Jan Gibson and Doug Wilson 62.8 TARRAS COLLIE DOG CLUB RESULTS Event 1:Open-H. Ingles’ Trump 98.5, 1; P. Collins’ Tom 98.25, 2; J. Davis’ Norm 98, 3; A. Ferguson’s Gyp 97.5, 4; E. Aubrey’s Moe 97, 5.

Intermediate-R. Smillie’s Ned 96.5, 1; R. Aubrey’s Toby 96, 2; E. Stringer’s Frank 95.75, 3; T. Anderson’s Vic 95.5, 4. Maiden and Local Maiden-James Lucas’ Patch 89.5, 1; C. Wells’ Heidi 84, 2; N. Blanchard’s Tess 83.4, 3; C. Wells’ Gus 82.3, 4. Local-J. Davis’ Norm 98, 1; J.G. Lucas’ Jet 94.5, 2; Dunc. McRae’s Joe 94, 3; G. Spence’s Biddy 92.5, 4. Event 2:Open-E. Aubrey’s Moe 94.5, 1; P.L.Anderson’s Skip 93, 2; I.M. Anderson’s Don 92, 3; T. Anderson’s Jinx 91.2, 4; E. Stringer’s Matt 90, 5. Intermediate-P.L. Anderson’s Skip 93, 1; T. Anderson’s Jinx 91.2, 2; Don McRae’s Haze 88.5, 3; E. Stringer’s Frank 85, 4. Maiden-R. Pledger’s Lee 83, 1; N. Mead’s Tyke 66 and N. Blanchard’s Tess 66, =2; B. Nelson-Vold’s Nic 61, 4. Local Maiden-N. Mead’s Tyke 66 and N. Blanchard’s Tess 66 =1; B. Nelson-Vold’s Nic 61, 3; G. Reed’s Bob 53, 4. Local-P.L. Anderson’s Skip 93, 1; Don McRae’s Haze 88.5, 2; G.Reed’s Midge 81, 3; N. Mead’s Tyke and N. Blanchard’s Tess 66 =4. Event 3:Open-P.Collins’ Butch 96.5 1; J. Wills’ Bobby 96, 2; M. Clark’s Wizz 95.6 3; J. Meehan’s Will 95, 4; A. Campbell’s Ra 94.5, 5. Intermediate-P.Collins’ Butch 96.5, 1; J.Wills’ Bobby 96, 2; M. Clark’s Wizz 95.5, 3; J. Meehan’s Will 95, 4. Maiden-J. Wills’ Bobby 96,1; B. Purvis’ Burt 91.5, 2; G. Reed’s Peel 88, 3; J.G. Lucas’ Buster 81, 4. Local Maiden-B. Purvis’ Burt 91.5, 1; G. Reed’s Peel 88, 2; J.G. Lucas’ Buster 81, 3; N. Blanchard’s Vonn 75, 4. Local-J. Meehan’s Will 95,1; D.Hudson’s Kate 93, 2; B. Purvis’ Burt 91.5, 3; Don McRae’s Tag 91, 4. Event 4:Open-J. Meehan’s Will 97.5, 1; P. Boys’ Gem 96, 2; R. Strachan’s Rex 93, 3; S.Houston’s Dodge 92, 4; P. Collins’ Butch 91.25, 5. Intermediate-J. Meehan’s Will 97.5, 1; P. Boys’ Gem 96, 2; P.Collins’ Butch 91.25, 3; C. Roulston’s Nidda 89.5, 4. Maiden-J.G. Lucas’ Buster 87, 1; B. Purvis’ Burt 77, 2; James Lucas’ Nell 74.75, 3; T. Graham’s Olga 73, 4. Local Maiden-J.G. Lucas’ Buster 87, 1; B. Purvis’ Burt 77, 2; James Lucas’ Nell 74.75, 3; N. Blan-

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chard’s Vonn 71, 4. Local-J. Meehan’s Will 97.5, 1; Dunc. McRae’s Rue 88, 2; Don McRae’s Tag 87, 3; H. Glover’s Ridge 86, 4.

WANAKA BOWLS RESULTS Week ending 11:04:14 Friday Progressive 11:04:14 Skip:1st Peter Gray 2nd Bruce Hamilton 3rd George Russell Third: 1st Jon Barron 2nd David Byers 3rd Terry McGuire Lead:1st Dick Pattison 2nd Beaton Marr 3rd Charles Kiewiet LAKE HAWEA GOLF RESULTS Wanaka visit to Lake Hawea. 9.4.14.

Stablefords. Men. 0 – 14. 1st. John Templeton. 39 o/cb. 2nd. John McCrone. 39. 3rd. Kahu Vincent. 39. 4th.

Carrick Jones. 38. Mike Bayliss. 36 o/cb. Russell Lovelock. 36 15 + 1st.

Mike Squires. 43. o/cb.

2nd. John Grey. 43. 3rd. Red Stevenson. 41 o/cb 4th. Phill Thirkell. 41.

Neil Matchett 40 Trever Savage. 40.

Ladies. 1st Sue Anderson. 36. Nearest Pin no 1. Sue Anderson. no 5.

Phill Thirkell. Two’s Phill Thirkell.

LAKE HAWEA GOLF RESULTS. 13.4.14. Mt Maude Stableford. Men. 1st. Gerry Browne. 42. 2nd. Dick Sullivan. 40. 3rd Kahu Vincent. 39. 4th.

Stew Burt. 38. Tim Cotter 37. Neil Matchet. 37. Ladies, 1st. Kay Ross.

32. Nearest pin no 1. Tony Ascott. no 5. Jim Paddon.

Two’s. Dick Sullivan.

WANAKA BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS. Mt Iron Stakes 3. Silver Division.

North/South:- Marion Furneaux, Laraine Shepherd60.27%1. Allan Kelly, Bob Menlove 59.08% 2. Murray Pryde, Jo Wallis 58.04% 3. East/ West:- Sherril Harries, Lynne Fegan 66.83%1. Nan Ottrey, Kenneth Roberts 56.89%2. Clare Scurr, Terry Wilson56.25%3. Bronze Division.

North/South:- Joan & Ross Moon 59.58%1. Tommie Munns, Kay Ross 54.58%2. Noeline Goldsbrough, Bridget Rennie 53.75% 3. East/West:Fran Holmes, Heather Wellman 57.92%1. Lawrie & Margaret Stenhouse 56.67%2. Annette Clements, Shona Watt 48.33%3. Friday Bridge 11 April. North/South:- Sherril Harries, Mary Gibson-Collings 57.55% 1. Michael Chapman- Smith, Maggie Stratford and Shona Johnstone, Pam Miller 54.17 2=. East/West:- Vivienne Christie, Errol Kelly 61.08 % 1. Joy Baxter, Barbara Waterworth 58.52% 2. Daphne Stewart, Deirdre Lynch 58.24%