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Concerns over Queen St upgrade
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Simon Bloomberg Inconvenience for customers, loss of profits and parking spaces and dust and grit on their premises are the main concerns that Richmond businesses have about plans to upgrade the stormwater system in Queen Street. The Tasman District Council is planning to start excavating Queen St in August next year to replace the street’s ageing stormwater system and lower its profile, as part of a $13.9 million project to improve flood protection in Richmond. Richmond Unlimited met with council late last month to discuss their concerns to ensure the impact of the project on the town’s businesses is minimised. A survey of Richmond Unlimited’s members has shown that inconvenience to customers was the top ranked issue, with 59 per cent of the 52 respondents saying they were “very concerned”.
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if they don’t do the work and there’s a flood that will be a disaster. - Richmond Unlimited chair Brent Cheyne.
Loss of profit at 56 per cent, dust and grit entering premises (50 per cent), loss of parking spaces during construction (37 per cent), noise (34 per cent), damage to property (27 per cent) and vibration (22 per cent) were also major concerns. One retailer expressed concern that construction will stop potential clients from coming to Richmond while another considered the disruption could “push retailers into insolvency”. One business owner says they are concerned about “the loss of income when retail is already a massive struggle”.
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Tapawera Area School’s Denise Shellock, left, and Mapua School’s Briar McKenzie, centre, and Vanessa Jane Oldham at Seifried Estate last Friday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
New teacher qualified at 45 Wakefield’s Denise Shellock always wanted to be a teacher, it’s just taken her a little longer than usual to achieve her goal. Denise was one of 13 pre-school and primary teachers to receive their full teacher’s certificates at a ceremony at Seifried Estate on Friday. But unlike most of the new teachers attending the ceremony, Denise took almost 30 years to gain her qualification af-
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ter being sidetracked by a career in the dairy industry, raising five children and working as a teacher aide. Denise, aged 45, worked as a dairy technician at Brightwater when she left school before taking time out to raise her five children.
She spent seven years as a teacher aide at Waimea Intermediate, completing a degree in teaching and learning part-time and extra murally through Canterbury University before getting her first teaching job at Garin College in 2011. “It took four years to finish my degree. I studied extra-murally and
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