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Around 30 women gathered at Wanaka Library yesterday morning to mark the 125th anniversary of women gaining the vote. At the morning tea celebration, guest speaker Jenny Moss from the Wanaka Women’s Suffrage Committee talked about the ‘Skirt Tales’ book, reading extracts to the audience before assisting with planting a Kate Sheppard camellia, in honour of women’s rights and equality. Jenny Moss said she was especially thankful to Phyllis Aspinall who interviewed and collected many of the tales for the centenary celebration book. “We owe Phyllis a lot for this book.” Local woman Helen Johnston, who has owned Kaleidoscope for 32 years, was asked to plant the new addition to the library garden. Jenny Moss explained to the Wanaka Sun that 25 years ago in 1983, after her second child, her husband stayed at home while she went back to teach. She recalled that she was asked at school one morning, ‘What has Steven made for your lunch today?’ Elaborating, that the ‘traditional’ roles were swapped over in 1983 and at that time in Wanaka, “it did not go down all that well”. She said that although people were not hostile, they were definitely surprised; and that “breaking down boundaries took a little bit longer in some areas”. But overall she believed that things have changed a lot from the 1980s and 1990s because Wanaka and the Upper Clutha have also changed. Moss believed there has been a huge leap forward in the last year or two. “It would be nice if we did not have to use the word ‘equality’ and that it just was, because we are all humans and we all have reciprocal respect because we are people. If we could just have that, if that permeated throughout all of lives, and everything that we do then we would not need to use the word ‘equality’.” Skirt Tales wasn’t the only way women of the Upper Clutha celebrated the centenary, with an article in The Lakesider, published on September 15,1993, reporting on various functions. Pauline Knowles skippered a cruise on Lake Wanaka, while Davida Mead and Sue Kronfeld piloted scenic flights. Women’s creativity and conservation efforts were celebrated with an art exhibition and display at the town hall and DOC headquarters respectively, and Upper Clutha’s monthly newspaper marked the anniversary by filling its pages with women’s writing. Wanaka Garden Circle life members Elizabeth Ironside, Eva Harris and Elizabeth Blanc also planted camellias at Wanaka Station Park in the spring of 1993. The hope now is that in another 25 years, the next generation of Wanaka women will meet again to plant another camellia and possibly write another book so it becomes a tradition. Pictured: Helen Johnston getting ready to plant a camellia, with Jenny Moss.
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The possibility that a parasite may be used in the control of lake snow has been suggested by Otago Regional Council scientists. Last week, ORC accepted the report from staff which highlighted lake snow algae research as being of national importance and recommended a coordinated approach. That was also one of the key recommendations from a recent workshop attended by representatives from Landcare Research, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Waikato Regional Council, University of Otago, Ministry of Primary Industries, Queenstown Lakes District Council and Environment Canterbury. Participants discussed possible methods to manage the effects of lake snow. ORC scientists identified the possibility of biological control using a parasite to reduce the presence of Lindavia diatom cells. That would require “significant” further investigation as well as some metagenomics analysis of overseas samples. ORC environmental resource scientist, Rachel
Ozanne, said lake snow has been deliberated at various council meetings over the last two years and is the subject of research being funded by ORC. “It is our aim to maintain transparency around the work being done on lake snow. We are undertaking a coordinated approach to research and this matter is being discussed with MPI and the regional council,” Ozanne said. Among the findings of the research funded by ORC were that the diatom responsible for lake snow, Lindavia intermedia, is almost certainly invasive, with no evidence that it was in New Zealand before 2001, and it has been identified in archived samples from more than a dozen New Zealand lakes or lake outlets. A search of archived samples of Lindavia intermedia in New Zealand’s fresh waters prepared for ORC by NIWA this year, found the freshwater diatom Lindavia intermedia (previously named Cyclotella bodanica and related species), which causes lake snow, has been a problem in Lake Wanaka since about 2004. Lake snow is nuisance slime, with locals reporting it clings to fishermen’s lines, clogs up water filters and boat engines, and sticks to swimmers.
Agent admits fraud, sentenced today Ruth Blunt
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A real estate agent, with links to Wanaka, will be sentenced today (Thursday, September 20) at the Christchurch District Court. On July 11, 2018, Shirley Johnston pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining commissions from the Selwyn District Council. The Serious Fraud Office filed charges of obtaining by deception against Johnston and her husband and business partner Stephen Gubb in August 2017. Gubb was employed by Hughes Developments Limited as a property consultant to sell Izone land, leases, and design and build packages. He fraudulently obtained 13 commission payments of more than $300,000 from the Selwyn District Council between March 2007 and July 2015. Nearly
$150,000 of these payments were transferred into a bank account controlled by Gubb and Shirley Johnston. Gubb also obtained $10,500 by submitting an invoice to the Selwyn District Council for services that were not provided. Gubb was sentenced in May 2018 to two years and nine months in prison on 14 charges of obtaining by deception. He has previously been prosecuted by the SFO on fraud charges involving more than $1 million and was sentenced to four years imprisonment in December 2003. The SFO maintain Shirley Johnston was complicit in obtaining the commission payments. She received the commissions on 13 land sales as a Phoenix Harcourts agent in Christchurch. However, she was not the real estate agent for these property sales at the Selwyn District Council business park development in Rolleston.
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The Wanaka Masterplan community engagement process is underway, with council staff on hand at the Festival of Sport and Recreation last weekend to chat to people, and several ideas already posted on the “Have your say” boards at the Wanaka Recreation Centre and Wanaka Library. There will be opportunities to voice your ideas today (Thursday, September 20), as council teams up with LINK Upper Clutha for two community cafe sessions from 11am-12pm or 7pm-8.30pm at the Wanaka Presbyterian Community Church Centre. Pictured: “Bike paths! Bike paths! Bike paths!” was among the ideas posted on the ideas and insights board at the Wanaka Library.
Plans for responsible camping this summer Ruth Blunt
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About 20 people attended an informal dropin session hosted by Queenstown Lakes District Council staff at the Lake Wanaka Centre last week. QLDC has been working the Department of Conservation, Land Information New Zealand, NZ Transport Agency, and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment on a Responsible Camping Strategy for the district.
The informal community information sessions were held in Queenstown and Wanaka to share its proposed high-level approaches and the council’s initial plans to manage the expected influx of campers over this coming summer period. QLDC communications spokesperson Campbell Weal said the Wanaka session went well with people providing their input verbally and on sticky notes which will be incorporated into the draft strategy. “For this summer’s visitors, we’re planning
managed hubs, signage, additional toilets, rubbish removal on these sites and enforcement across the district including DOC, NZTA and LINZ property,” Weal said. “We will also have staff out and about educating and monitoring campers.” Council staff are currently working on a draft plan to discuss with council and the Wanaka Community Board. Pictured: Freedom campers at Diamond Lake last year, where camping is restricted to self-contained vehicles only.
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Communities clean up Aimee Owens
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Every year, Keep New Zealand Beautiful facilitate a clean-up week, which this was celebrated from September 10-16. Keep New Zealand Beautiful provided the gloves and bags to community groups, schools, individuals and businesses to get out in their communities and clean up in time for summer. Preschools, schools, businesses, service groups and groups of neighbours in Wanaka and the surrounds, have all participated in the event. It is one of the largest nationwide community events held in New Zealand with thousands of volunteers participating in the collection of litter. On Saturday September 15, six members of the Hawea Youth Club and three adults gave up their Saturday morning for a roadside clean up. The club collected from the Camphill Road bridge to Lachlan Avenue. Youth Club facilitator Sarah Millwater said they were again surprised by how much rubbish they collected, with beer bottles, glad wrap, farming and builders waste, car scraps and even a duck featuring in their collection. Albert Town Community Association chairman, Jim Cowie, along with 22 other volunteers cleaned up around Albert Town on Sunday, September 16. The volunteers spent a total of 50 hours on the clean up between them and collected 260kg of rubbish, which included a mix of plastics, glass, wood, wire and bits of steel. “It was good to see a reduction, from previous years, in building materials that blow all round the
district and I think that is really a reflection of the fact that the Riverside Park subdivision has been largely completed now and I would like to think that builders are also taking a bit more care of storing their building rubbish before they take it offsite,” Cowie said. He also observed that there was a reduction in the amount of dog faeces, which he believed could be due to people starting to take more responsibility of it. Cowie, along with Rod McLeod, also disposed of a large rusty axle from the river, which had been bugging him for years. “Nobody has done anything about it, so I got sick and tired of walking and cycling by it so we went up after every one had gone home and trundled the thing down - good riddance to it,” Cowie said. The Upper Clutha Lions also joined in on the day, with women and locals from the Albert Town community being the notable helpers, but Cowie commented that they could always do with more help. He has been organising clean-ups for four years, in which time he has noticed that the streets of Albert Town are much cleaner although the outer reserves were not. “There was unfortunately quite a lot of rubbish in the Albert Town Recreation Reserve. We did pick up quite a bit of rubbish over there which was disappointing. Some is the result of people camping and not looking after their rubbish, but we hope to see an improvement there in the future.” Pictured: Dave Millwater, Bella Urquhart, Rachael Wright, Hannah Wright, Lilliana Arratia, Sabina Gibson and Maisy Millwater clean up around Hawea.
Local Mum of two, Tui Homer, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, stating that “new parents desperately need your help please!”. The letter reiterated what many others have long campaigned for in Wanaka, that the current state of the maternity care sector and associated resources in the region are in dire need of more support. Tui Homer lives in Wanaka and has just recently given birth to her second baby, 14 weeks ago. In the letter she urges the Prime Minister to step into the shoes of pregnant women in Wanaka: “We’ve been asking for help for years but the situation we are in is dire, and things just keep getting worse. Please imagine you had to share your midwife with over 80 other women. What would you have done if she was already at another birth when you went into labour? Then imagine, like us, you were four (yes four) hours from a hospital. You now know how traumatic being in labour is, but imagine also having to drive for four hours to the nearest hospital.” The letter was sent to Ardern’s office about three weeks ago, before she made it an open letter. But after minimal contact from the office was made, and she was informed they would pass it on to David Clark, she decided to publish it on social media. Homer has not yet heard from David Clark or Jacinda Ardern themselves but said, “Deb [Harvey] cannot carry on like this because she has taken on more than what her caseload should be. Deb is a really good person and the
only reason that she is working in this situation is because she does not want to leave all these pregnant women high and dry.” Many women in Wanaka commend midwife Deb Harvey on her strength, but Homer explained in the letter that they cannot expect her to continue in this manner as it is “extremely dangerous not only to the expectant mothers, but their unborn children and to herself.” Homer also expressed concern about how long Wanaka will have a midwife as two locums, contracted by Southern DHB until October to assist Wanaka’s sole midwife, may not have their contracts renewed. “It will be a situation whereby if she has to leave to assist with a birth, and someone goes in to labour here, someone is going to be in trouble and no one wants to say that out loud but that is the reality.” Waitaki MP, Jacqui Dean called for the PM to address Wanaka maternity concerns. “The fear and desperation expressed by Wanaka mother Tui Homer, in her open letter to Jacinda Ardern around the lack of maternity services in the Upper Clutha, reflects the seriousness of the problems there. “Her concerns are representative of the broader issues facing hundreds of women and their families in a town where just one full-time midwife, and a couple of locums, are literally run off their feet attempting to meet the needs of around 100 mothers.” Dean said “the time has come for the Health Minister and Prime Minister to do something real to help Wanaka mothers and their babies. The community really can’t wait any longer.”
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As part of its effort to diversify the economy from its reliance on tourism, Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) wants to attract more international research and development (R&D) teams to the district. QLDC economic development manager Peter Harris said the idea to explore further possibilities stemmed from the success of the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds (SHPG). “SHPG has carved a niche for themselves in automotive testing so we thought there might be other industries that could benefit from basing an R&D team here,” Harris said. “We have an open mind about which industries could have potential but people have already suggested we look at the ski, telecommunication and energy industries.”
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crews, linesmen and arborists out there working in the Ruth Blunt cold, especially yesterday, to sort everything out. It was editor@thewanakasun.co.nz a chaotic day, but great to see so many people offering Queenstown Lakes District Council staff had to help one another in amongst all the mess too!” finished sending out the council’s winter road While the Crown Range remained open, with grit reports on September 6, but Monday’s weather trucks clearing the snow, the Lindis Pass on State spurred them back into action. Highway 8 and the Haast Pass on State Highway 6 Rebecca Pitts, Campbell Weal and Sam White, were closed on Monday morning. Several flights from QLDC communications team, sent out daily into and out of Queenstown Airport were affected reports at about 6.30am throughout the winter by the weather, and schools across the district were STAFF REPORTER months. They signed off saying they’d be “up and closed for the day. editor@thewanakasun.co.nz ready for action” if the weather turned wintery. Pictured: Wanaka-Luggate Highway (State In an email on Tuesday, Weal thanked the “roading Highway 6) on September 17. The nominees for the 2018 Snow Sports NZ Annual Awards have been announced with Wanaka snowsports athletes featuring strongly in the line up. Adaptive snow sports coaches Ben Adams and Jane Stevens, freeskiing coach Tommy Pyatt and snowboarding STAFF REPORTER coach Mitch Brown take up three of editor@thewanakasun.co.nz the four nominees for the coach of the Kahu Youth worker Claire including tasters in poi, hula year award. ‘Frenchy’ French is throwing hoop, juggling and contact Queenstown-Lakes snowsports a workshop day for Mount juggling to name a few. athletes Ben Harrington (freeski), Aspiring College students to Students are asked to bring Tiarn Collins (snowboard), Hank celebrate her time in Wanaka. a koha donation in support of Bilous (freeride) and Piera Hudson After almost two years at the Kahu Youth Trust. (alpine ski racing) feature in all Kahu Youth, Frenchy, pictured, “The last two years with four spots for the breakthrough will leave town to join the Kahu Youth has been great, season award. Hudson has also been Wandering Circus Troupe, the kids are so amazing and nominated for the alpine ski racer of an eclectic group of national I’ve been involved in so many the year award. and international performers fun projects, groups and Wanaka-based athletes, Carl Murphy, travelling the country. community events. It’s really Adam Hall and Corey Peters have been “It’s my final hurrah before nice to be able to give back to nominated for the adaptive snow I run away with the circus,” such a great trust before I head sports athlete of the year category. off on tour,” Frenchy said. she said. The cross country skier of the year “The tutors and performers The event, open to Year 7 nominee is Wanaka’s Campbell Wright, to 10 students, will host 15 are the best of the best. They’re while the freeride athlete of the year of the troupe’s international exceptionally skilled and are award will be contested by Craig teachers and 90 workshops super excited about sharing Murray, Maria Kuzma and Sam Lee. PHOTO: Supplied on Thursday, November 22 their skills.” Beau-James Wells, Finn Bilous and
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Nico Porteous have been nominated for the freeskier of the year award while Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has been nominated in the snowboarder of the year category. The winners of each sports category will be eligible for the overall athlete of the year award. Awards will also be presented to the 2018 Masters Ski Racing Champions, Alison Duder (Arrowtown) and Geoff Hunt (Queenstown). The Snow Sports NZ Annual Awards Night will be held on Saturday, October 6 at the Lake Wanaka Centre from 7pm-10pm. Winners will be presented with their awards and Black Fern Portia Woodman will be the guest speaker. Portia will share with us her journey to becoming one of NZ’s most successful athletes. She is an Olympic silver medallist, Commonwealth Games gold medallist and the top try scorer in World Series history. Portia’s career highlights so far also include being named 2015 World Rugby Women’s Seven’s player of the year and World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year in 2017. Pictured: 2017 Snow Sports NZ Athlete of the Year Zoi SadowskiSynnott, who is also a nominee for the 2018 Awards
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The next step in developing a shared vision for 2050 and beyond, was taken last week as Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Jim Boult brought together about 50 people for a second workshop. “We started this process at the beginning of August to influence our district’s future for the second half of this century. At that first meeting we identified a number of key themes which we sought to explore further, about what life could be like. It won’t surprise people to learn these touched on our local environment, arts and creative culture, the economy and a diversification into industries that provide wider opportunities, education
and management of growth,” Mayor Boult said. Participants represented the district’s various viewpoints, with perspectives from the disabled community, voices from both youth and the elderly, Iwi, farming, community support and development services, ethnic minorities, and representation from Central Government. Boult said he was keen to challenge the attendees to be brave in their thinking, to think big, and keep the people of the district in their hearts and minds. “Invited speakers shared their insights into Mãori values such as manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga and aroha, how the history of our district can help inform the future, spatial planning, and the Shaping Our
Future process.” He said everybody at the workshop was “highly engaged and extremely enthusiastic”. “During the day I was moved to hear one person’s desire for the future as the opportunity for everyone to wake up to the dawn chorus. At this early stage it feels like we can hear them very faintly in the distance and we know they are there. For that vision to become reality, my hope is that this process will enable us to take control of our destiny rather than allowing external forces to control us.” Boult confirmed that the next step is for council staff to reflect on the participants’ ideas, and to consider how the community can become involved. Community engagement is expected to take place towards the end of the year.
ORC re-defines visions, values Ruth Blunt
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Following on from ORC’s commitment to modernise the way it communicates and engages the community, the council has re-defined its values, vision and purposes. Otago Regional Council chief executive, Sarah Gardner, has embraced the task of changing the council’s organisational culture. “Without a shared sense of purpose and what we stand for, it’s difficult to do our best work, and to truly pull together as ‘Team ORC’,” Gardner said. “It’s important that ORC has a clear vision for its future, that its staff and councillors can talk about its work in a way that makes sense to others and to have bottom-line
standards for the way we treat each other and value our work.” Focus has been placed on ensuring staff, councillors and the general public have greater awareness of the ORC’s role and its vision for Otago’s future. ORC staff and councillors have been involved in several workshops to review the ORC’s values and have established four key statements of purpose (pillars). They are to protect Otago’s environment and people; connect the region’s diverse elements; enhance the environment; and enable by exchanging information, tools and knowledge with the region’s communities. Council’s new vision statement is “working together for a sustainable Otago” and its values are described as caring, trustworthy,
open and honest, collaborative, accountable and creative. “The values and behaviours determined by staff and councillors together help to provide a holistic approach to our organisational culture. This allows us all to better understand the drivers for our organisation and helps us strive towards success while operating within the values we have set for ourselves.” She said ensuring staff feel empowered and heard was key to taking ownership of ORC’s culture. “Seeing staff engaging with the proposed vision, pillars and values was fantastic and I am certain this work will assist us to help others understand our organisation and the work that we do.”
Constance vies for New Blood fund Aimee Owens
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As part of the New Blood competition, hosted by TVNZ, a murder mystery pilot has recently been filmed in Wanaka. Fiona Armstrong, originally from the UK, and three others - Henry Rolleston, Tessa Livingston and Travis Graham, all from the South Island - wrote the Central Otago based drama, Constance. The writers met during their time in Auckland on an Actors Programme, where they casually discussed creating a drama located in rural New Zealand. Armstrong, who has never produced before, previously worked on farms in Wanaka for about six months, and always thought it was “great drama”. The team of four have already written the whole series, but only the pilot has been filmed. The next six episodes will be funded if the team win the competition. This year auditioners were required to do a pitch and Constance made it to the final 15 from 750 entrants. Armstrong then attended a full day workshop at TVNZ, where they provided feedback. She had to pitch again one week later to a panel of six judges, from there they made it to the final five. The group was given $5000 to film the pilot, which Armstrong said, “Ironically for us, a big part of our budget became flights because although we use to live here, we now live in Auckland”. She believed that it meant that the team had to be more creative and pull in favours, but she did admit that there was a point when they thought, ‘can we do this?’. A range of locals have helped out so
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far including: Jay Simon, Susan Brady, Danny Fairley (Arma Del Amor) and Emily McCrae, head of Drama at MAC. The plot revolves around two farming families, in the fictional town of Titakataka, (meaning Fantail): The Abbott family, who go bankrupt trying to do a dairy conversion, and another family who own land, the O’Brien’s. The Abbott family purchased from the O’Brien’s and now work for them. The pilot opens with the O’Brien’s daughter, Constance, who had been killed in what appears to be a hunting accident. In the pilot, Craig Hall, a local mechanic, believes he is a suspect as he has gone out shooting while drunk and believes that he has misidentified his target and killed Constance. But by the end of the pilot, it is discovered that the bullet shot from the hunting gun does not match the bullet retrieved from her body; it is murder. The pilot also introduces the audience to an Auckland detective who visits Wanaka, ready to step in and assist a seemingly incapable, inexperienced local police officer. Fiona Armstrong plays Tanya Abbott, the daughter of Stephen Abbott, played by Jay Simon. The team was keen to continue the web series, as they have written six more episodes. “I think, hopefully if we do not win then we will have paved a path enough for us, that we might be able to go down a different route of getting some funding. We’re definitely keen, we have put blood, sweat and tears in to it, so it definitely would not be the end. We will keep going to pitch it and get some funding.” She also commented that it was good
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A recent addition to the range of organisations based out of the Community Networks office is Community Care Trust. Community Care Trust (CCT) provides support for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder. Support can range from an hour or two per week through to 24/7. Recognising that each person is unique, CCT provides tailor-made support that is determined by the person; the focus is on what is important to the person and what they want to achieve. Working in partnership underpins the ethos of how CCT works. Whether this is partnership with people supported, families, businesses, or
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Parents of babies born in the last year are being invited to connect with each other during three special sessions next week. Hosted by Upper Clutha Plunket, the initiative is designed for parents who haven’t had the opportunity to meet up with families of a similar age group, who may be new to town or haven’t attended pregnancy and parenting classes here. Plunket will host three “happy hours” next week for babies born from September to December 2017 (Monday, September 24, 10.30am-11.30am), January to April 2018 (Monday, September 24, 1.30pm-2.30pm) and May to September 2018 (Thursday, September 27, 10.30am-11.30am). Upper Clutha Plunket’s annual appeal is being held this week, with collection tables outside Paper Plus, the post office and New World today (Thursday), and outside New World
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again on Saturday, September 22. While Wanaka’s Plunket nurse, Helen Umbers, is funded by the Ministry of Health, the Plunket committee must fundraise to keep the rooms on Ardmore Street open. The funds raised will go towards operational costs, such as electricity, rates and insurance.
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As part of its new governance structure, Central Lakes Trust (CLT) is seeking a third appointed trustee. Under the new governance structure, the CLT board, which has been made up of six publicly elected members, will now include three appointed trustees and five publicly elected trustees. Two of the three appointed trustees commenced their roles in December 2017, while the third appointed trustee is to come on board by December 2018, prior to the 2019 election for the remaining five publicly elected trustees. The appointed trustees enhance the composition of the Trust, ensuring it can recruit for the specialist skills and knowledge it needs, while sustaining a majority of elected community representation. Central Lakes Trust chair, Tony Hill, said the governance structure “gives us the best of both worlds – community representation, plus expert advice and knowledge”.
“Over time, the diversification, scale and complexity of the Trust’s investment portfolio has intensified, and the Trust increasingly requires trustees that can bring appropriate expertise to decision-making and greater continuity at a governance-level; trustees need to exercise well-informed and active judgment,” Hill said. “These appointments protect the Trust in terms of continuity in governance during next year’s election where four of our current six elected trustees are mandated to retire.” CLT chief executive, Susan Finlay, said the trustee needs to be in touch with the “contemporary needs” of the community. “The impact our growing population and demographics place, means that, as funders, we must ensure an understanding of community need rather than demand, and respond accordingly in terms of being fiscally responsible with community money,” The full position brief and application form is on appointbetterboards.co.nz. Applications close on September 28.
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A new report on labour issues facing Central Otago’s horticulture and viticulture sectors has highlighted an accommodation shortage which would impact more than a third of the expected workforce in the next five years. The report’s data came from surveys and interviews conducted by Druce Consulting with horticulture and viticulture growers during June and July this year. Growth in the next five years will come predominantly from the horticulture sector in the Cromwell region. The report revealed plans for 465ha of new cherry plantings in the next four-five years (a 56 percent increase on current plantings), and new grape plantings of 284ha, which is a 14 percent increase and will bring the total Central Otago vineyard estate to 2275ha. There is currently 597ha planted in Cromwell, with a 69 percent planned increase by 2021/22. The peak horticulture harvest period will see an increase in labour demand of 1186 workers over the next five years, with predicted viticulture increases for the same period of 123 workers at harvest. There will be an increase in demand for accommodation of 6198 beds to cater for peak harvest demand by 2021/22 for both sectors. While there is a predicted increase in bed and camping capacity supply of 1615, there is still a forecast shortfall of 2298 beds. Central Otago Labour Market Governance Group chair Stephen Jeffery said the level of response to the survey when calculated against planted hectares was very pleasing
and gave “a high level of confidence” in the collated data. “It’s becoming increasingly more important that the surveyed industries and the wider community have an overview of projected growth, not only in planted hectares but also projected labour requirements and accommodation,” he said. “It’s encouraging to see further growth in Central Otago’s rural economy and crucial that we have good information to understand and plan for the future.” The report featured 13 recommendations to be driven at a strategic, workplace, training and community level. These included the governance group chair highlighting with officials the need for raising the Regional Seasonal Employment (RSE) cap; improving processing capacity over the Christmas break; and increasing promotion of horticulture and viticulture work opportunities to holiday visa holders. Exploring options for engaging underutilised workers in the community such as older people and parents with young children and allowing more flexible work conditions are among the recommendations. Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan said he was struck by the importance of RSE workers and backpackers for our seasonal labour supply. “I endorse the report’s recommendation that we need, as a community, to acknowledge the ongoing value of these groups to our region. Finding ways to celebrate their contribution, making sure we stand out as a great destination in a competitive seasonal labour market and get known as a welcoming and vibrant community, are ways every one of us can help our district prosper.”
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The Donnelly Property Team is making each step count this month by taking part the Cerebral Palsy Society’s 10,000 step challenge. The Cerebral Palsy Society, in partnership with the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Australia, is currently hosting a fundraising event which challenges people to take 10,000 steps a day for 28 days straight in the month of September. So far the local real estate agents have raised $356.70 of their $500 goal. Taking 10,000 steps a day is a commitment, but every dollar raised
Upper Clutha schools were closed on Monday, September 17, as snow settled on the ground across the district, and children took the opportunity to make snow creations in their gardens. Pictured: Fiveyear-old Jack Neave was pretty happy with his snowman.
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during September allows the society to provide much-needed services, support, and care for children and adults living with cerebral palsy, and their families. Through sponsorship, funds will be raised to help pay for services, programmes, and research into groundbreaking treatments for cerebral palsy. Each member of the four-person teams should take 10,000 steps every day for 28 days, which is the equivalent of climbing the highest peak on every continent, according to CPS. So far, more than $600,000 has been raised in NZ and more than $6 million has been raised from across the world.
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An exclusive, privately-owned collection of paintings by prominent 19th-century explorer and artist, John Turnbull Thomson, have been restored and will be exhibited at functions throughout the southern region in October. John Turnbull Thomson, originally from Northumberland, England, was regarded as an accomplished explorer and surveyor, responsible for the design, naming and construction of several notable engineering works. Mount Earnslaw, Mount Aspiring, Lindis Pass, the towns of Twizel and Cardrona, and the St Bathans and Pisa Ranges, are just a few that he named. Thomson also published numerous books and articles and implemented a national triangulation system of surveying in 1877. He was one of the first early Europeans in this area, and, as a way to give back to the area that was so precious to him, Thomson’s great-greatgrandson, David Hall-Jones, and his family have built up a collection of some of his finest watercolours and etchings. David Hall-Jones was born and educated in Invercargill and spent his childhood exploring the regions his great-great-grandfather discovered more than 100 years previously. “It is a privilege for our family to have such an exceptional collection in our possession and we believe it is important to share this significant piece of social history with people in the region. To combine the art tour with our latest vintages, which we have named in Surveyor Thomson’s memory, seems very appropriate.” Hall-Jones has recently retired from a 30-year international law career in Hong Kong and is now looking to spend more time in the south with his family as well as managing Domaine Thomson Wines, an organic pinot noir vineyard in Cromwell. He said that his heart brought him back to Wanaka: “It’s an amazing part of the world”. Domaine Thomson Wines has created the
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Thomson Art and Wine Tour to celebrate the restoration of Thomson’s artwork and the tour will be the first public viewing of his art. The Central Otago vineyard was named after Thomson, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1856, to take on the role of chief surveyor for the Otago province. From 1876 until 1879, he was also the Surveyor-General of New Zealand and became a landscape painter, producing works of art significant to the history of the southern region. He later settled in Invercargill. “Thomson was a writer and a painter, so he had a phenomenal collection of stuff which was not common in those days because of the early explorers would often not write anything down and did not or could not draw. Thomson is recognised internationally for being one of the few explorers in the world who could paint”, Hall-Jones said. Many other works have been donated by the HallJones family to national museums. The exhibitions of history, art and wine are scheduled for the second week of October in Te Anau, Invercargill, Queenstown and Wanaka. The Wanaka event will be held at Edgewater Resort on Friday October 12. Pictured: David Hall-Jones in Wanaka with John Turnbull Thomson’s painting “Wanaka View”.
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Montessori Children’s House Wanaka, a not-for-profit organisation run for the community, is raising funds to help a local family reach its own fundraising goal. Montessori managing teacher, Anne Marie Love, contacted the Wanaka Sun after reading an article concerning the Brewer family last week. Ultramarathoner James Brewer is raising money for Ronald McDonald House South Island by running the Old Ghost trail in
February 2019. James Brewer’s son Jack was diagnosed with Pilocytic Astrocytoma and the family spent some time in the Christchurch facility while he was in hospital. Anne Marie Love explained that Montessori had the privilege of Jack and his sister Ruby Brewer attending the centre, and staff wanted to do something to help. Montessori is inviting the community to join a fundraising fun run around Kelly’s Flat Reserve on October 19 at 3.15pm. “All the money is going to assist James’s target of reaching $10,000
for Ronald McDonald House South Island.” Families are encouraged to preregister before the day for catering purposes. Love said volunteers would be most welcome to help with the barbecue and to assist with the flow of runners. The cost per family is $10 which will include a sausage sizzle afterwards. Pictured: Children and teachers, from Montessori, practising the for the upcoming fun run around Kelly’s Flat Reserve.
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The company behind the multipurpose tools, Leatherman, is calling for creative and adventurous Kiwi kids to enter a competition. Leatherman is asking for students to show off their creativity with the Design-a-Leatherman technology competition, targeting Year 5-8 students. To enter the competition, students are required to design a multi-tool with all the gadgets they believe they may need in their life. A template will be provided and entry is free. The winning entrant’s school will receive $1000 in cash and the
opportunity to have American inventor, Tim Leatherman, visit their school to present the prizes. A signed copy of the book, No.8 Recharged ‘Stories of NZ Innovators’, by Dr Michelle Dickinson and David Downs will also be gifted to the school library. The winning student will receive $200, a Leatherman Leap multitool, personally engraved by Tim Leatherman and a signed copy of No.8 Recharged. Entries close at the end of Term 3 (September 28). Students can enter online www.designaleatherman. co.nz, by email or by post.
Local young skiers, Macy Holland, Mae Dineen, Cameron Shore and Emily Hunt enjoyed the aftermath of the 54cm snowfall at Cardrona Alpine Resort on Tuesday, September 18. The spring snowfall means McDougall’s Chondola and the Learner Conveyors will open for an extra week at the end of this season.
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The fifth annual Festival of Sport and Recreation was held at the Wanaka Recreation Centre on Sunday, September 16. About 500 people attended the event which was run by the Upper Clutha Sports Community (UCSC). UCSC trustee Diana Schikker said the initial feedback from clubs has been overwhelming positive. “There is lots of evidence of clubs getting sign-up from new members, enquiries to follow up with more information, and even the offer of additional coaches and volunteers,’ she said. “Many clubs said they appreciated and enjoyed the opportunity to talk to people about their activities and to make those personal connections. Members of the public enjoyed the
chance to see so much under one roof and to try out a range of activities. Schikker said she had heard about some families new to the area who appreciated being able to see what was on offer in terms of sport and recreation, and loved how friendly everyone was. Pool activities were a welcome addition to the festival, with Schikker saying the UCSC wanted to encourage the formation of new clubs and the reintroduction of previous waterbased activities, such as canoe polo. When asked if there would be a festival next year Schikker said that while the committee hadn’t yet discussed this year’s event, she felt the festival was building momentum every year and was well worth repeating. Pictured: Tama Chaney enjoyed some time in the new pool with the Central Otago Whitewater Club.
Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD) committee members were highlighting important road safety messages at the Festival of Sports and Recreation on Sunday, September 16. As part of SADD’s Remember September campaign, the Mount Aspiring College students were promoting the programme’s six principles: sober drivers, safe speeds, no distractions, avoid risks, drive to the conditions, and build experience. “It was really good to have conversations with parents and adults that may not usually happen. These are conversations that need to happen, the drink-driving culture for one has significantly changed for the better, which is a step forward, but in terms of breaching licence conditions and road death tolls, we have taken a step back,” MAC SADD committee member Kenzie Muir said. SADD held a focus or fail obstacle course, which adults, kids and the deputy mayor took part in. Participants first took on the timed course without
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distraction, then a distraction - in the form of an egg on a spoon - was introduced and participants completed the course again. “We found that our average time undistracted was 24 seconds and our average distracted time was 51 seconds: A huge increase,” Muir said. “This time difference shows how much more time was needed to focus on distractions, and therefore not on the road/course ahead of them. Overall we just wanted to highlight the importance of driving distraction free.” MAC’s SADD committee started 10 years ago, and currently has 15 Year 13 student members with guidance from school staff, primarily Karyn Munro. The group will be expanding to include Year 12 students in term four. The group has several more activities planned for SADD’s annual Remember September, including a car crash extraction with the local fire brigade, a focus or fail activity for Year 9 and 10 students, and a ‘text me Friday’ campaign. Pictured: SADD committee members Madi Mulqueen, Kate Binns, Nadia McNeilly and Kenzie Muir.
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Wanaka’s young dancers and gymnasts will perform alongside international circus stars when the Wandering Circus Troupe comes to town in November. Kahu Youth, Dance Out Loud, Aspiring Gymsports and its cheerleaders will all take to the stage at a Lake Wanaka Centre matinee show on Wednesday, November 21, with an adult-only show coming later on in the day. Wanaka circus coordinator Claire French
said that the variety of both shows would offer something for everyone. “Performances feature modern circus acts, flow arts and much, much more. We’re super excited to be presenting this to the community,” she said. Queenstown Lakes District Council’s sponsorship of the centre hire and EventFinda’s waiver of its admin fees will allow all proceeds of the shows to go back to the Community Arts and Circus Trust New Zealand. Tickets are available on the EventFinda website and more information can be found on the tour’s website, wanderingcircus.weebly.com.
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Vehicle access will be restricted at Beacon Point reserve, with council confirming that plans are in place to set some rocks at key points to prevent vehicle access to the beach. Residents have been concerned about the damage caused to the wetland areas and native vegetation
by vehicles being driven on the reserve during the winter. In July, a council spokesperson told the Wanaka Sun that it was working with community groups towards a solution to the issue. In the interim, Queenstown Lakes District Council parks and reserves officers and a number of residents have been keeping an eye on the area. The rocks should be place within the next week.
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The Informant The months update comes from Alex Cull our inhouse Crowe Horwath tax specialist. He discusses the implications of the proposed changes to residential rental property tax rules. Alex is the only local tax specialist in Wanaka and is available for any of those higher end or trickier tax situations that you may face from time to time. Do you have a residential rental property? Is it generating tax losses that you have been offsetting against other income (salary, wages, or business income)? Now may be the time to carry-out any repairs and maintenance work you have been putting off. The Government is considering changes to the tax laws that will prevent landlords from offsetting rental losses against other forms of income. Under the proposed changes, residential rental losses will be ‘ring-fenced’, meaning they can only be offset against future rental profits from the property, profits from other rental properties, or taxable income you derive from selling the property (such as income arising under the fiveyear bright line rule). The rule changes are proposed to come in with
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effect from 1 April 2019. This means that you have only six months to carry-out tax-deductible work to your rental property. Incurring the same costs after 1 April 2019 may mean that you need to wait until a time when there is income from the rental property. However, it is important to note that there is a fine line between tax-deductible repairs and maintenance, and non-deductible capital improvements that are depreciated over timein-use (or in some cases not at all). The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has provided some examples of what repairs and maintenance costs may be tax deductible. These include repainting, easing windows, replacing cracked panes, sanding and re-varnishing the floors, replacing the kitchen bench top, fitting a new hand basin to replace a cracked one, and having a plumber check and repair all the taps. Improvements such as extending the property, installing double-glazing, removing walls replacing piles and foundations, will not result in an immediate tax deduction. Similarly, purchasing standalone assets for the property such as fridges, dishwashers or ovens will not result in an immediate tax deduction unless the cost of each individual asset is below $500 in value. The ring-fencing of rental losses is only intended
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Central Otago District Council newest playground project has received a financial boost, with a grant of $125,000 from the Central Lakes Trust. CLT chief executive, Susan Finlay, said this round’s “substantial grant” was for the junior and senior playground at Cromwell’s Big Fruit Reserve. “As we move to higher density housing, the average section size has decreased, limiting the backyard space, making communal play areas all the more important,” Findlay said. The addition of wider-Cromwell’s seventh playground is part of the proposal to rejuvenate and repurpose the Big Fruit Reserve which CODC has spent over $1 million redeveloping. “The senior playground will go
to apply to losses from ‘residential land’ which is given the same definition as land considered under the five-year bright line test. Therefore, if you are generating rental losses from farmland, business premises or land that is zoned for commercial uses under the relevant district plan, these may not be subject to the rule changes. The ring-fencing may not apply to mixed-use assets such as Airbnb holiday homes that have an element of private and business use. The Government is bringing in these changes in response to pressure from the public to make the tax system fairer and improve housing affordability for owner-occupiers by reducing demand from speculators and investors. The Government expects that the ring-fencing rules will help level the playing field between property speculators/investors and home buyers. They consider that investors (particularly highly-geared investors) receive a subsidy to their mortgage repayments through a reduced tax on their other income sources. Only time will tell if this will have an effect on the Wanaka property market. These rules are complex and require careful navigation. If you would like to discuss how they may apply to your rental property, please come and talk to myself or someone in our specialist tax team.
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between the mini golf course and half basketball court, while the junior play area will go on the opposite side of the half basketball court,” CODC parks and recreation manager Gordon Bailey said. “We see this as a destination playground with different play items on offer than other spaces around Cromwell.” CLT has also approved a grant for the Cromwell Presbyterian Church’s free, family-friendly Light Party. This year’s event will take place on October 31 and is expected to attract about 500 people. The grant of $1500 will go towards a bouncy castle, games and crafts. Volunteering Central will receive a $25,000 operational grant for 2018/19. Pictured: Vicci Lawrence of CLT and Gordon Bailey of CODC at the site of the proposed new senior playground at Cromwell’s Big Fruit Reserve.
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Developer-led planning Further to Evan Alty’s letter (Wanaka Sun, September 19) on the proposed Special Housing Area (SHA) at Lake Hawea. He has been seduced by the Universal Development’s proposal so much so that his preference that the “pattern of development proceed in its traditional manner” appears to have gone by the board. He fails to see the end game - 1000 sections. Moreover, he seems unaware of the wishes of the community he lives in. A panel considering submissions on the Proposed District Plan (PDP) received a detailed submission from the Hawea Community Association seeking an urban growth boundary (UGB) be placed around Hawea. The submission was accepted and at its meeting on May 3, 2018 the council accepted the recommendations of its commissioners to include the UGB for Hawea and notified the decisions version of the PDP. The proposed SHA is outside the UGB. QLDC, at its meeting on June 28, considered the Expression of Interest (EOI) for the SHA in Lake Hawea. The report from council officers for that meeting noted that the proposal did not meet its Lead Policy that stated that council would not accept proposals EOIs in this area. In other words, we need the planning processes to fully take their course before considering the merits of the proposal. So what did council do? They deleted this annoying clause and in so doing went back on their previous decision and thumbed their nose at the Lake Hawea community. The review of the District Plan is still in process. Stage 3 will consider Lake Hawea Township. There is every possibility that one of the outcomes will allow more intense housing in Lake Hawea, thus further increasing affordability. What is the point of rules and a planning process if Council simply ignores them? The Local Body Act 2003 requires local authorities to be rigorous in their decision-making by identifying all reasonably practicable options for achieving the objective of a decision and assessing those options by considering the benefits and costs in terms of the present and future well-being of the community, and the extent to which community outcomes would be promoted. QLDC has failed abysmally to meet its obligations under that Act. John Langley Lake Hawea
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The future of Wanaka Airport Jim boult
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Airports have been a very focal point of late. You will all know that Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) was granted a 100-year lease on the Wanaka Airport by QLDC. The purpose of that was to sensibly utilise all our aeronautical assets to get the best commercial and social output for the district. QAC are currently considering the future of commercial flights into and from Wanaka. A number of residents of the Upper Clutha have raised with me the issue of commercial flights from Wanaka. There appears to be concern by some that we are shortly to see Dreamliners flying in here! Nothing could be further from the truth. The previous flights operated by Air New Zealand into Wanaka utilised the Beech 1900 aircraft carrying a passenger load of 19. The B1900 fleet has now been retired from Air New Zealand and their smallest aircraft is the Bombardier Q300 which seats 50. Next up, and probably in my view the mostly likely to operate into Wanaka, are either the ATR fleet which carry around 68 passengers, or the Airbus A320 operated by both Jetstar and Air New Zealand in various guises, but which carries around 180 passengers. As it stands at present, ATRs and A320s could not operate commercially from Wanaka as the runway is too short, too narrow and the seal too thin. So first up, before any commercial flight operates from the airport, a new runway is required. The next requirements include suitable taxiways, apron areas, navigation aids and a terminal. I would imagine, (and I’m using only my
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own experience in making this comment), that if QAC were to be able to justify the installation of a new runway it would be around 2000m long which would eventually make the airport capable of taking ATRs and Code C aircraft being Airbus A320 or Boeing B737 However, there is much work to do before the first wheel gets near touch-down. Runways, taxiways, aprons and terminals are enormously expensive pieces of infrastructure and QAC will need to go through a careful exercise to justify expenditure of this type. This is not simply a case of building it and they will come, it’s a case of needing to justify it very carefully and very precisely. There are examples around the world of airports developed for traffic which never came. However, putting our heads into fast forward for a moment, let’s say that there is a justification and the work is done. Even with a tail wind I would be very surprised to see commercial operators within say, three years. And to dispel the concerns of those worried about excessive airport movements – if the airport started commercial domestic operations with regular flights to both Christchurch and Auckland, I would imagine that would be the maximum for some time. I make these comments both personally, with the knowledge gained from my days as CEO of the country’s second largest airport and as mayor of QLDC. While QAC is 75.1 percent owned by the QLDC, Council entrusts its board of directors and management to make good operational, commercial and social decisions. I’m positive that they will steer this process thoughtfully and with due consideration for the Upper Clutha and all those in it.
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FOR SALE We are selling our beloved, 1992 Toyota Corolla GLX. Our beautiful ‘Barbara’, is an older bird born in ‘92, but she is in great shape, no dents or scratches and runs like a dream. She has only done 190k for a car her age, she is a manual and we are the third owner. WOF expires in January and Registration is good up until October. $1,800. Please contact 027-518-0576 or aimss@hotmail.co.uk
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Alpine Helicopters is a wholly owned division of The Alpine Group Limited. A family owned company with interests in Aviation, Pastoral Farming, Tourism and Primary Exports. Alpine Helicopters was established in 1972 out of Luggate Game Packers which was established in 1963 as an early venison recovery operator. In addition to providing intercompany support, Alpine Helicopters provides a wide range of aerial services externally under NZCAA Part 135 & 137 certifications. Services include but are not limited to: filming, fire suppression, general agricultural operations, heli-skiing, hunting, lifting, pest control, scenic & charter work as well as venison recovery. While home base is located in Wanaka, we operate throughout the South Island at various and remote locations and we will also be opening a hangar in Queenstown later this year. The current fleet is made up of: • 4 x AS350B2 • 1 x AS350BB • 2 x MD500E • 1 x CABG2 • 1 x H130T2 (arriving in early 2019) Alpine Helicopters currently employs eight full time pilots and lists the services of contract pilots throughout the year. The business has full time administrative and operational support staff. The Position We are looking for a hard-working pilot to join the company, to contribute new ideas and experiences to as many of the existing operations as possible. Alternatively, we would accommodate an individual who has the ability and motivation to up-skill in a timely fashion. The successful candidate will have: 1. An affinity for clean helicopters and tidy hangar; and 2. Mountain flying and long line experience; and 3. A NZ CPL-H with 2000-hours helicopter time and 1000-hours turbine time minimum and be AS350 and MD500 rated Alpine Helicopters represents an unpretentious approach to helicopter operations. We have a high regard for safety but an aversion to bureaucracy and inefficiencies. We enjoy challenges and look to practical solutions all the while ensuring financial objectives are met. We have an emphasis on creating an enjoyable work environment that caters to individuals with young families all the while maintaining a realistic approach towards the seasonal nature of the business. This is a full-time permanent position operating out of our Wanaka and Queenstown hangars. The start date for this position is spring 2018 and remuneration is dependent on experience and ability brought to the role. Advancement opportunities within the business exist for the right person. All applications should be sent to tb@alpineheli.co.nz before 1pm, 1st October 2018 when applications will close.
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Volunteers required at The Salvation Army Family store if you have some free time and would like to be part of a team which makes a difference, come and see us.
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SERVICES Wanaka Pharmacy is your local pharmacy. We’re the big pharmacy at the top of Helwick Street - open from 8am until 7pm every single day. Ph 443 8000. Free computer lessons for older people - Community Networks is offering oneon-one lessons in your own home on your own device or at our offices. If you are interested call into Community Networks or phone 03 443 7799. Would a weekly visitor and a bit of companionship enhance your life? We have volunteers who would like to meet a senior to share stories or take you on an outing. If you are interested please contact Community Networks on 03 443 7799 or contact the project coordinator, Anscilaine on championforolderpeople@ gmail.com. JP SERVICES are available at Community Networks every Tuesday from 1pm and Friday from 10:30am. Please book your appointment by ringing Community Networks on 03 443 7799. WHEELS TO DUNSTAN - free shuttle service to Dunstan Hospital or Alexandra specialist appointments, also linking with the St John Health Shuttle to Dunedin Hospital. For bookings please call Community Networks on 443 7799. FREE LEGAL ADVICE - at Community Networks delivered by the Dunedin Community Law Centre on Wednesday 3rd October. Please call Community Networks on 443 7799 to book your appointment. INLAND REVENUE - are at Community Networks, Wednesday 26th September. If you need help with your Tax return, Family Tax credits or any other enquiry give Community Networks a call on 03443 7799 to make an appointment for this free service.
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Cut rags (100% cotton) Rags, rags, rags ... and drop cloths, only little ones, big ones, cotton ones and drop $7 for a big bag. Now cloths, available from in the yard container the Wanaka Salvation at Wastebusters. Open Army Family Store 443 5068. 9-5 seven days.
We require a Teacher Aide to start as close to the beginning of Term 4 2018 as possible. The applicant will provide support for diagnosed special needs students and/or students with behaviour difficulties. Applicants will preferably have had some experience, although this is not essential. If you are patient, steadfast, physically fit, have a sense of humour and are a team player, this is the job for you. Some toileting may be required. The position will be for between 20-25 hours per week, to the end of 2018, at which time the position will be reviewed based on student numbers.
Applications close at 4.00pm Tuesday 9, October 2018. The job description and application pack can be downloaded from www.mtaspiring.school.nz/mac-vacancies.html or email learn@mtaspiring.school.nz
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N o t i c e b o a rd | P a p a P ā n u i October Meeting Schedule Public Notice is hereby given in terms of Section 46 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 that meetings of the Council will be held as under, during the month of October 2018. Hearing of Submissions on the Navigation Safety Bylaw 2018 – Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Centre, Wanaka. Wednesday 3 October 2018 at 10.00am Audit, Finance & Risk Committee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 4 October 2018 at 10.00am Appeals Subcommittee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 4 October 2018 at 1.00pm. This meeting will be held with the public excluded, pursuant to Section 7(2)(g) and Section 7(2)(i) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
Queenstown Lakes District Council – Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Centre, Wanaka. Thursday 25 October 2018 at 1.00pm Meeting dates, times and venues are subject to change. All of the above meetings are open to the public. Some meetings may have items of business that will be discussed with the public excluded, as set out by the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
You may make a submission by sending a written or electronic submission to Queenstown Lakes District Council (details below). The submission should be in the format of Form 13. Copies of this form are available on the website http://www.qldc.govt.nz/planning/resource-consents/ Address for Service for Consent Authority: Queenstown Lakes District Council Private Bag 50072, Queenstown 9348 Gorge Road, Queenstown 9300
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Dated: 20 September 2018 Signed by QUEENSTOWN LAKES DISTRICT COUNCIL
Queenstown Lakes District Council Proposed District Plan - Stage 2
Addendum to Summary of Decisions Requested: Submission #2662 – Relax it’s Done Limited and Submission #2663 – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of New Zealand Notice is hereby given on Thursday 20 September 2018 of an addendum to the Summary of Decisions Requested relating the following submissions: •
#2662 – Relax it’s Done Limited: This submission relates to Visitor Accommodation and was misdirected and omitted from the original summary of decisions requested. #2663 – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of New Zealand: This submission was made on the variation to Chapter 24 - Wakatipu Basin – Table 24.2.
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A copy of the full public notice along with the addendum and a copy of the submission are available for inspection at: www.qldc.govt.nz/proposed-districtplan - under Stage 2. Free online access to the addendum is available at QLDC Libraries and Offices.
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 Details of the resource consent application and submission forms are available in the offices at Queenstown Lakes District Council, Gorge Road, Queenstown; 74 Shotover Street, Queenstown; 33-35 Reece Crescent, Wanaka and 47 Ardmore Street, Wanaka during normal office hours (8.00am to 5.00pm). You can also download these on our website.
Further submissions can now be made in support of or in opposition to submissions #2662 and #2663. The closing date for these further submissions is Friday 5 October 2018.
http://www.qldc.govt.nz/planning/resource-consents/notified-resource-consentsand-hearings/
For further information on the further submission process, please call the duty policy planner at Council on 03 441 0499 or email pdpenquiries@qldc.govt.nz
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What is proposed: Application under Section 88 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) for land use consent to undertake visitor accommodation activity from the existing four residential units and four residential flats (up to 300 nights per year) on the site with an associated car parking shortfall. The location in respect of which this application relates is situated at: 45 Dungarvon Street, Wanaka - Section 1, Block XXXI Town of Pembroke held in Computer Freehold Register OT261/79 ADDRESS FOR SERVICE FOR APPLICANT: C/- Dan Curley dan@ipsolutions.nz I P Solutions Limited 31 Dunmore Street Wanaka 9305 The Council planner processing this application on behalf of the Council is Hamish Anderson, who may be contacted at 03 441 0499 or email at hamish.anderson@qldc.govt.nz
Notice of the annual general meeting of The Challenge Wanaka Sports Trust – the Peoples Meeting This is to advise you of the upcoming annual general meeting of the Challenge Wanaka Sports Trust. The details of this meeting are as follows: Date: Thursday 27 September 2018 Time: 1–3pm Place: Community Networks 73 Brwonston Street, Wanaka Regards, Bill Roxburgh, Race Director
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Submissions will be received until 18 October 2018, and must be served on the Consent Authority, Queenstown Lakes District Council, Private Bag 50072, Queenstown 9348 or email rcsubmission@qldc.govt.nz. These must be dated, signed by you, and include the following information: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Your name, email address (preferred) postal address and telephone number. Details of the application in respect of which you are making the submission including location and the Resource Consent number. Whether you support or oppose the application. Your submission, with reasons. The decision you wish the consent authority to make. Whether you wish to be heard in support of your submission.
Any person may make a submission on the application, but a person who is a trade competitor of the applicant may do so only if that person is directly affected by an effect of the activity to which the application relates that: a) b)
adversely affects the environment; and does not relate to trade competition or the effects of trade competition.
Aurora Energy Essential Line Works Clutha River Public Notice is hereby given pursuant to Queenstown Lakes District Council Navigation and Safety Bylaw 2018 that Bylaw Part 43 has been uplifted in the interest of Public Safety reserving an area of the Clutha River slightly downstream of the Red Luggate Bridge known as Reko Point. Aurora Energy is removing power lines that are across the river. The area of river where this is occurring will have one of the Harbourmaster’s patrol craft on site as this power line is removed. It should be noted that there will be no river use or river traffic whatsoever during this event on this area of the Clutha River. Date: Thursday 27 September 2018 with a reserved day of Friday 28 September 2018. Time: 8.30am to 3.30pm both days. For any enquiries or concerns contact either Aurora Energy Dannielle Dendle 027579-2637 or Harbourmaster Marty Black 027-434-5289. Dated: 11 September 2018 Authorized by Harbourmaster M A Black
Lagarosiphon Control in the Riverside Storm Water Ponds Starting Monday 24 September, aquatic herbicide will be used to control lagarosiphon which is present in storm water ponds in the Riverside Reserve. Spraying will be completed on Monday, provided weather conditions are suitable. The area will be cordoned off as far as is practical and signage will be in place for the duration of the treatment and withholding period. We ask that dogs and people are kept out of the water while the treatment is being undertaken and for a 24 hour period following completion. The outlet from the ponds will be blocked during this time to prevent the water from entering the lower lagoon. If you have any questions about this treatment of the ponds please contact services@qldc.govt.nz or phone 0800 800 033.
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SPORTS RESULTS Please send sports results to sports@thewanakasun.co.nz by Tuesday at noon. Wanaka Bridge Club (Tues) 1st Heather Wellman, Boyd Ottrey 54.55% (Mon) N/S 1st Llewellen & Ken Leigh Snelling 65.07%. 2nd Pauline Davidson, Ruth Roberts 66.64%. 2nd Jenny Pryde, Sherril Harries Coghill 64.10%. 3rd Peter Hart, Eddie Lowe 53.26%. 58.36%. 3rd Mary Gibson-Collings, Judy Briggs (Wed) N/S 1st Hans Limacher, Claire Williams 51.25%. E/W 1st Maggie Stratford, Deirdre Lynch 54.69%. 2nd Jason Benton, George Foreman 56.50%. 2nd Georgie Roberts, Allan Kelly 56.16%. 53.13%. 3rd Jeanette Gillies, Shona Watt 52.08. 3rd Gerarda Herlihy, Dorothy McDonald 52.62% E/W 1st Alwyne Haworth, Charles Kiewiet 62.50%. Wanaka Tournament 1st Junior Alan & Morag 2nd Kay Ross, Noelene Raffills 61.93%. 3rd John Chisholm, 2nd Noelene Raffills, Pam Miller 1st PHOTO: SUPPLIED Schwarz, Rosemary Boswell 53.13%. (Fri H/Cap) Intermediate Mark Harry, Marc Simmonds. N/S Hans Limacher, Claire Williams 58.90%. 2nd Tarras Golf Jack and Noni Mead Trophy: Dave Norrie Norwood, Carolyn Grey 54.05%. 3rd Carol Allen and Debbie Brent 7 up, Carmel and Murray The game has been made possible STAFF REPORTER Orbell, Rosemary Boswell 53.70%. E/W 1st Maggie Hyndman 3 up. Bogey Men H Reinecke 4 up, B through the support of match-day editor@thewanakasun.co.nz Stratford, Sally Goodall 58.43%. 2nd Heather Rowley 3 up, D Agnew 2 up, S Johnston all square. sponsor Breen Construction, whose Wellman, Noeline Munro 54.91%. 3rd Ian McDonald, Birdie Hole 3 ( sponsored by Moore Golf ) D Agnew. The Highlanders will play the Waratahs managing director, Lindsay Breen,
Highlanders to play in Alexandra in a pre-season fixture at Molyneux Park, Alexandra on February 1, 2019, in the town’s first fully professional super rugby game. The Central Otago District Council is getting behind the event, with Mayor Tim Cadogan saying they were working hard to showcase Central Otago as a place for large-scale international and national events. “When top sports teams come to our part of the world we can always be confident that there will be a strong turnout of enthusiastic fans and I am sure the rugby will be no exception,” he said. Highlanders CEO Roger Clark believed the town and venue will showcase the event “extremely well”.
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said, “It’s easy for us to get fired up about the Highlanders playing rugby on Molyneux Park. “We like our sport and we love Molyneux Park. It’s great to see the park getting events like this that show it off as a first-class venue. We also love supporting the communities that we work in and what better way than bringing a fixture like this to our home town. Thanks to the Highlanders for the opportunity to be involved.” Tickets for the event will go on sale early next year. Pictured: Lindsay Breen (Breen Construction), Trevor Washington (Alexandra Rugby Football Club), Ian Mann (CODC), Matt Enright (Highlanders) at Molyneux Park.
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TREBLE CONE SKI PATROL could be due to people’s lack of fitness at that time of the year, their enthusiasm for the new season, new gear and sometimes a lack of awareness of things like the fact that it takes some time for stream beds and gullies to completely fill in. It’s worth remembering that conditions and the surface of the snow change all the time, and what was awesome to jump mid-season last year may not be doable on opening day in June! It’s not your average job, what makes it worthwhile? Ski patrolling offers a rare opportunity to combine a love of skiing and being in the mountains. It can be both exciting and engaging, and there’s camaraderie and teamwork that is necessary to achieve all this and get the mountain open in good time. The other part of it is that there’s huge satisfaction in being able to help people when they need it and that we play a key role in ensuring lots of people can enjoy the mountain safely.
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Multiple World Champion and world number stand-up paddleboard athlete, Annabel Anderson, had a serious accident a few weeks ago at the Motatapu Chutes area of Treble Cone. But fortunately for Anderson, who had dislocated her hip and was knocked unconscious, the Treble Cone ski patrol was close-by to assist her. “From when I started to come around until I was loaded into the back of the rescue helicopter, [TC ski patrol team] were with me ensuring that I was stabilised and as comfortable as possible given the situation. They have to work in some fairly tough conditions and a harsh environment and they do an incredible job. For the most part one hopes that you do not need their help or services, but knowing that they are there in case you do is very comforting.” The patrol is on the mountain every day from early morning, so what is it like to be part of the ski patrol team at Treble Cone Ski Area? The Wanaka Sun asked the patrollers all about their not-so-run-of-the-mill job. What training do ski patrol undertake? Ski Patrollers come from a number of walks of life. Some people train to specifically become a Ski Patrol professional, others come from mountain guiding, climbing and paramedic backgrounds. But all of us have spent a lot of time on the snow. To become a ski patroller it’s essential to have a few key skills such as good backcountry and mountain skills plus qualifications such as your Avy 1 and Pre-hospital Emergency Care. What is a typical day for patrol? It’s always a reasonably early start! Sometimes we stay overnight on the mountain, especially if we’re expecting heavy snow so we can get a head start in order to get the mountain open on time. If it’s a snow day, that usually means we have to undertake avalanche control work. That has to happen before we can get other staff, like lift operators, out on the mountain so they can undertake their own safety checks. Typically that day will start at 5:30am and we’ll begin with a briefing on the snowfall and other weather conditions overnight and the forecast for the remainder of the day. Then the teams will head out to assess the conditions and identify any avalanche hazard that might exist. Based on that assessment, we undertake control work through both the use of explosive charges and ski-cutting. There are over 300 potential avalanche paths within the Treble Cone ski area boundary and as the entire area is accessible from the lifts, we need to ensure that we’ve made a thorough
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check of each of them. Once control work is undertaken we ensure all the signage is in place and that any other potential hazards, such as rocks, are marked, slow zones are clearly communicated, and that machinery and infrastructure is made safe. Then we make final checks, and the mountain is safe to open. Then we might be able to knock back a shot of coffee… Once the mountain is open to the public, we’re constantly monitoring the weather conditions which can change very quickly. We also monitor radio traffic at all times. When there’s an incident our role is to act as the first responder so we try to find out as much as we can from the person reporting the incident to ensure we arrive on the scene with the appropriate equipment for the task at hand That incident could be anything from a broken binding to minor cuts and bruises, cardiac arrest or more serious trauma. Once we arrive at the scene, our task is to ensure that the injured party is stabilised and as comfortable as possible and then make a decision on how to get them to the most appropriate medical care. Usually that involves conveying them to the onmountain medical centre by sled or “blood wagon”. In the most serious cases we’ll get the patient to a place where a helicopter can land and transfer them directly to that. Fortunately those cases are relatively rare. Mid-way through the afternoon we brief
the rest of the mountain operations team on the weather for the forthcoming period and what that might mean for the next day’s operations. Safety is the number one concern at any ski area, and as a result, nothing happens without the input of the Ski Patrol team. At the close of the day we’re responsible for ensuring that we sweep the mountain for any remaining guests and removing fences and markers for the grooming team. Once we’ve ensured that there are no guests left on the mountain and that we’ve accounted for the occupants of any cars remaining in the car park, we can call the mountain closed and the grooming and snowmaking teams can start to go about their work again. Then we’re heading down the hill with the dogs in the truck and home – from where we’re still keeping a careful eye on the weather. On average, how many accidents will patrol attend in a week? That can really vary and there are lots of factors involved. Usually, we see more incidents on busy days, purely because more people skiing and riding increases the likelihood of one of them having an incident. Then there are factors like the snow – harder, icy conditions can throw up more injuries, but so can the enthusiasm that results from 20 cms of new snow having fallen! The early part of the season often sees a bit of a spike in call-outs which
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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is seeking proposals to undertake the development of a joint master plan that would cover both the Queenstown Events Centre (QEC) and the Wanaka Recreation Centre (WRC) and their surrounding areas. The council’s objective is to gain a full understanding of the current and future sport and recreation demands for Queenstown, Wanaka and their wider catchment from existing material, such as the draft QLDC/CODC Regional Sport and Recreation Facility Strategy and QLDC’s
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current Wanaka Town Centre Masterplan and Frankton Masterplan projects. The project will consider the development of all current and potential sites over the next 20 years and look to futureproof the facilities in line with predicted population growth. Thunes Cloete, QLDC general manager community services, said the aim was to ensure QEC and WRC continue to play a key role in the social fabric of the district. “Sports and recreation are both embedded at the heart of our community and so it follows that the facilities council provides in this space need to adapt as our population increases and changes in character,” he said. The masterplan will add detail to the
$12m investment programme for QEC outlined in the 2018-2028 Ten Year Plan that includes two additional indoor courts, a multi-use artificial turf and an upgrade of its gym and group fitness facilities. The masterplan for WRC will be refreshed to complement the pool facilities. “As well as a significant building programme we’re looking to provide a balance between organised sports and more informal uses of the sites such as walking, running and biking trails and open spaces for activities like family picnics,” Cloete said. He said connecting the existing facilities with proposed new residential, commercial and educational hubs was a particular focus.
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POW takes to the hills Aimee Owens
journalist@thewanakasun.co.nz
Emma Fordyce from Protect Our Winters (POW) pictured at Cardrona Alpine Resort on Sunday, September 9. POW members were at the ski area talking to people about what actions, big or small, they can take to keep winter around for longer. Marian Krogh, also a member of POW, remarked that although it was a relatively quiet day, “interest
was good”. She said people seemed to be keen to see the resort make certain changes, such as only allowing only “carpoolers” to the top car park and for the resort to compost permanently. Cardrona’s composting plan was put in place in 2016, with food scraps and coffee grinds from the cafes used to make compost to be distributed around the resort. This winter season, no takeaway coffee cups have been used at Cardrona, and disposable plates and cutlery have been replaced with enamel plates and reusable cutlery.
Eight local athletes will fly to Tauranga at the end of the month for the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships. The group, who are all members of Wanaka Trampoline and Tumbling Club, has attained the qualifying mark to gain selection for the team to represent Otago at the championships. Club Chairman, Ian Percy, said it was a “remarkable achievement for the club”. “With only such a small competitive squad it is great that over 90 percent have made it. We had four who went two years ago and seven last year, so our club is doing really well.” The squad hoped to make their event finals, which will be a significant achievement as only the top eight make the cut from over 30 athletes in each category. Hiring Aspiring Trampolining facility has proven no obstacle for the club, despite the severe training restrictions that the squad have had to contend with. Percy believed that if the club had its own, larger premises, there would be an opportunity for the club to offer more training to snowsports and freestyle athletes. A bigger facility would also maintain the competitive “purist” branch of the sport and meet the growing demand for recreational trampolining. According to Percy, the demand is reflected by large numbers of people
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who now participate in recreational sessions - over 120 people a week, with at least 40 on a waiting list to join. But he stressed that the numbers only reflect locals and do not take into account seasonal snowsports athletes, or tourists who often seek “new experiences”. The squad finished preparations for the National Championships on Sunday, September 16, with another visit to Christchurch, as guests of a Canterbury interclub event. Two of the eight athletes, Deia Carson-Wolfe and Elizabeth Pell, won both the trampoline and double mini trampoline events meaning they have placed first in all their events this year. Imogen Dougherty overcame her disappointment of an error at the end of her trampoline routine, to come second in the 15/16 age group on the double mini. The club also noted fine performances by the remainder of the squad: Dean Coll, Skyla Coll, Piper Carson-Wolfe, Kate Beaton and Izzy Percy who received placings in their events. The squad will leave a few days early for the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships to attend a three-day training camp in Hamilton. The camp will provide the opportunity for them to train without facility restrictions on trampoline, double mini trampoline and tumbling equipment The young athletes will then travel to Tauranga for the Nationals which run from October 3-6.
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