27 April Independent Herald Newspaper

Young and old remember

By Glenise Dreaver

That special promise “Lest We Forget” was made real at Johnsonville’s Anzac Day Parade and Service on Tuesday morning.

Hundreds of Cubs and Scouts, Pippins, Brownies and Guides from the local area marched behind two youthful pipers. They were joined by their leaders, by Veterans and by Armed Services representatives as they moved down Johnsonville Road to the 10am service at The Salvation Army Johnsonville. Continued on page 2.

Ray Marshall, Korean, Malayan and Vietnam war veteran, and former president of the Johnsonville branch of the RSA, wore his war medals, along with his father’s World War I medals, on Tuesday’s local Anzac Day parade. Ray was accompanied by Rayleen Snowdon, whose late husband was one of his war comrades. Photo: Glenise Dreaver.

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The Johnsonville Returned Services Association memorial began with a silent national observance. Then came the opening formalities and a prayer from Captain Robert Adams.

This was all heard in a respectful silence that fell over the gathering, demonstrating that there is still a generation of young people willingly being inducted into the formalities of this national day of honour and grieving.

The prayer, from Captain Robert Adams, and the following address by Salvation Army Chaplain Major Glenn Waugh remembered not just the fallen of the two world wars and the more recent theatres of war which Anzac troops have given their lives.

The suffering in Ukraine and the courage and willingness of members of our emergency services to risk their lives for others were also themes that surfaced.

Major Waugh also spoke

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about the ways community service can be exercised, the question to be asked when confronted with injustice like racial abuse and family violence. “Will you stand up?”

He also reminded those attending of the meaning of the words “Give, Love, and Live”.

“Give what you can of yourself. Love your family, your community. And live your best life, one that serves, helps and encourages others.”

The two Newlands College Head students who sat with

the rest of the official party on the dais recited the wellloved words of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ before the final hymn ‘God of our Fathers was sung.

The Ode, ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ was spoken, before the Last Post was sounded by trumpeter John Ford. Another respectful silence preceded John’s sounding of Reveille, then came the formalities of the National Anthem, the Benediction and Parade Dismissal.

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I recently hosted a meeting which included local property developers and representatives from the City and Regional Councils. The background for the meeting was the need to ensure all people involved in providing more housing in our electorate, whether it be those building them or those regulating and permitting that building, understand the issues which govern the ability to build the houses everyone agrees we need.

I’ve mentioned before about the key ABC message I pushed on detectives I trained in my old police career; Accept nothing, Believe no one, and Corroborate everything.

If only Fox TV watchers had observed that rule, the US maybe wouldn’t be the divided place it is today. It took massive lawsuits to show up their lies, but the fear is their audience will just move on to the next lot of conspiracy theorists. I bring this up because we in New Zealand are in danger of following the Americans, as we do with so many trends, especially crime.

There are essentially two types of development; greenfields and brownfields. Greenfields means building on currently undeveloped land, typically ex farmland on the edges of current urban areas, where infrastructure like sewers, water supply and other essential services don’t exist are usually built by the developer.

The videoed ram raids are straight out of the American Gangster material many of our vulnerable youths watch incessantly. They almost invariably get caught but getting the video up is more important.

Brownfields development means rebuilding on existing sites, and there has been considerable discussion in recent times around how much intensification should be allowed in existing suburbs, especially changing of height limits to allow for more apartments.

And so it is with our own media. When one big player continually accuses all the other sources of

Both have their advantages and disadvantages; the Regional Council in particular see their role to prevent more

fake news because they don’t agree with their misinformation, that’s very Fox-like.

It’s time consuming and not always easy to find alternative sources, but most newspapers are pretty good; it’s just important to look at who writes the opinion pieces and work out their politics.

runoff and other material ending up in our harbours, especially the Porirua harbour in the case of development north of Johnsonville and Newlands. The Wellington City Council are concerned that the existing infrastructure cannot handle the pressure it comes under when new housing areas are developed. Existing infrastructure is aging and needs upgrading across our city, as evidenced by recent pipe failures. An advantage of intensification of existing areas means more people, therefore more ratepayers to pay for those upgrades.

Developers of course need to make a profit, and wish to keep their compliance costs as low as possible. Many believe the Resource Management Act is too cumbersome. We as government for our part have undertaken to rewrite that act.

Amidst this, it’s been nice to have an event like ANZAC, celebrated with parades in both Johnsonville and Tawa, which really does bring us all together to remember the mostly young men who never got to grow old, as the poem says.

The feedback was good, but the success will be when there are sufficient affordable houses to meetdemand. That is certainly my goal as your MP.

That, and of course having a vibrant and functioning Johnsonville Shopping Centre we can all be proud of.

There’s plenty to be getting on with.

It wasn’t always that way and I remember being a young cop in Wellington when largely only old diggers and protesters turned up for such parades. So, we shouldn’t despair about those things which divide us today; maybe we will all agree about them in future when we have an agreed set of facts.

Cameron Anderson and Louisa Slack, Pipers from the Wellington Red Hackle Pipe Band based in Tawa, led several hundred marchers in the Johnsonville Anzac Parade.

Photo: Glenise Dreaver.

The Johnsonville Scouts and Cubs were out in force at the Anzac Day Parade and service, leading off from the KFC corner at just after 9.30am. Photo: Glenise Dreaver.

Representing NZ

By Frank Neill

Wadestown swimmer Finn Harland has been selected in the New Zealand team to compete in the World Aquatic Junior Swimming Championships.

Finn, who is 17, is the only male in the team which will travel to Netanya, Israel, for the event that runs from 4 to 9 September.

The fact that he swam a fast enough time to qualify for selection “was a bit of a surprise,” Finn says.

That was because he got very sick with long Covid last year.

As a result “I turned up the week after New Year pretty out of shape.

“My coach managed to get me back on track, but I had a long way to go.”

Finn attended the New Zealand Age Group Swimming Camp, held from 24 to 27 January.

“It was a bit of a struggle,” he says, owing to his lack of fitness and condition.

However by early February he was able to train properly.

“But I only had eight weeks or so to prepare for the nationals [the National Age Group Swimming Championships].”

His target was to better the World Championships qualifying time of 56.1 seconds in the 100 metres backstroke.

His personal best at that point was 56.9 seconds.

Despite his short build-up, Finn slashed 1.6 seconds from his previous best time when he clocked 55.3 seconds.

“I was pretty stoked,” he says. “I didn’t expect to [clock such a good time].

Finn also shone in the 50 metres backstroke, setting a new New Zealand age group record of 25.6 seconds.

That was his second New Zealand age group record, as Finn also holds the national record for 16 year olds of 26.33 seconds in

the same event.

Finn has just won four titles at the Apollo Projects New Zealand Age Group Swimming championships, held at the Hawkes Bay Regional Aquatic Centre from 12 to 16 April.

His victories came in the 50 metres and 100 metres backstroke and in the 100 metres and 200 metres freestyle.

He also finished third in the 50 metres freestyle.

He will compete in the 50 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres backstroke at the World Championships, and possibly also in the 100 metres and 200 metres freestyle.

“I am looking forward to it,” he says.

“I’m excited.

“It’s a good group of people we’ve got going to the World Champs.

“There are no other males but it’s a good group of girls that are going.”

A Wellington College student, Finn has swum with the Capital Swim Club for the past two years. Before that, he swam for the Karori Pirates.

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Finn Harland ready for the start of a backstroke race. Photo: Supplied.

Finn Harland about to mount the starting block for a freestyle race. Photo: Supplied.

Generous donation to cancer research

It is Kara Isaac’s wish that the $90,000 donation her family is giving towards cancer research by the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute will enable another family to have something hers missed, and that is more time with their loved one.

Kara’s sister, Melody Collins, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer, chalangio carsanoma, in 2019 while living in Australia.

“They gave her two years and she died 15 months later in the middle of Covid,” Kara says.

From Churton Park, Kara is thankful the Australian government granted compassionate border entry for her and her brother and parents to travel and support Melody, especially when so many people were unable to be with their loved ones in their final days.

“After MIQ I had nine days with her before she died, but she died much earlier than anticipated.

“We would have given everything we had for six more months with Mel, especially for her kids who were all under ten.”

Melody had just turned 32 and left behind a husband and three young children.

“One of the things that became apparent to us is that, even in Australia where they have access to more medicines, there is such a lack of research into particularly rare and aggressive terminal cancers.”

Wanting to do something purposeful, Kara initially focused on palliative care and six months after Melody died raised $11,000 for Mary Potter Hospice by completing a half marathon.

A friend then told Kara about Gillies McIndoe and the work it was doing using repurposed

drugs (off-patent, low-cost and proven medications), alongside traditional cancer treatment, to treat glioblastoma.

She heard the research was struggling for funding.

“Lots of people are campaigning for new and very expensive drugs and here’s this research that could cost potentially hardly anything at all and make a huge difference for people,” Kara says.

“And the truth is this research is never going to be funded by pharmaceutical companies because using off patent drugs means there is almost no money in it for them.”

Kara and her husband, Josh, decided they wanted to support Gillies McIndoe’s work.

“We could have put it on the

mortgage or towards the kids’ education, but we decided that we wanted to do something bigger than just us in Mel’s memory that would also contribute to New Zealand people, New Zealand research and make a difference.”

The Melody Collins Memorial Scholarship is the result.

It is valued at $30,000 per year for three years and Gillies McIndoe PhD student Jasmine White is the recipient.

Jasmine will research glioblastoma tumours, grow organoids (mini brains) and examine metabolism and how the tumour feeds itself. She will also investigate if the tumour uses specific nutrients to grow and how they may be targeted to help slow or stop tumour growth.

“Mel would be mortified that there’s a whole scholarship named after her. She never sought attention.

“She was all about quietly paying it forward and using the resources she had to help other people.

“But she would also hope that this research will one day help other people with aggressive and terminal cancer have more time with the people that they love,” Kara says.

In late April Kara Isaac and her parents, Kim and Sue Bonnevie, visited Gillies McIndoe and met with the Melody Collins Memorial Scholarship recipient Jasmine White, where they also unveiled a plaque that recognises the Isaac family’s generosity and the scholarship.

Jasmin White (left), Kara Isaac and Sue and Kim Bonnevie at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute.

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Young netballer meets idols

Wadestown netballer Bella Fa’amausili scored the experience of a lifetime when she won the opportunity to meet her idols at the ANZ Premiership Pulse v Steel match at TSB Arena on 17 April.

Bella gained this opportunity when she was named an ANZ Future Captain.

Nine-year-old Bella, who attends Wadestown School, experienced what it’s like to be an ANZ Premiership player when she led the teams onto the court.

She also had the opportunity to get close to the players, and caught the action from prime courtside seats.

Bella’s friend Lily-Mae McLellan was able to join her.

Her highlight of the day was getting to meet her favourite player, Tiana Metuarau from the Pulse, Bella says.

“She’s pretty much my role model because she’s so good at shooting, which is what I like most about netball.”

Bella plays both summer and winter netball at Wadestown School and says she practises shooting every day when she gets home from school.

“I’d love to play for the Pulse or even be a

Silver Fern one day, so being named an ANZ Future Captain made me really proud. The whole day was just awesome.”

ANZ Bank is committed to its support of netball from grassroots players in the community to the elite players in the ANZ Premiership and Silver Ferns, the bank’s ANZ Head of Sponsorship Sarah Rogan says.

“That’s why we’re giving 98 young netball fans, like Bella, the chance to meet their idols of the ANZ Premiership and experience the magic of a live game.

“Sport is incredibly important to a child’s wellbeing and what better way to be inspired to get involved than to watch those at the top of their game.

“We hope this opportunity shows these young fans how far they can go with netball and inspires them to follow their dreams into the game.”

ANZ has supported netball from grassroots games in the community, to the elite level for the past 14 years.

Applications for the ANZ Future Captains programme are now open at ANZcourtside. co.nz.

On court at TSB Arena (from left) Kelly Jury of the Pulse, Bella Fa’amausili, Lily-May McLellan and Te Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit of the Steel. Photo: Supplied.

Marsden welcomes 24th Artist in Residence

The Artist in Residence programme has been a highlight of the school’s arts and cultural programme since 1999, providing students with an opportunity to work alongside a professional artist.

Marci will present masterclassstyle workshops for Marsden students in support of their academic studies, and local primary school students are also invited to attend a one-day workshop.

“I love the process of making art and being a member of a culture and community invested in nurturing the development of the creative process in all people,” she says.

Highly accomplished and with a wealth of experience in teaching and artistic practice, Marci was born in Denver, Colorado, and has lived and worked in New Zealand since 2006.

She has received numerous awards and artist residencies in

both New Zealand and the Uniterd States, including the Annual Fellowship Award from Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, and the Merit Grant Recipient for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

Marci’s work has been displayed in exhibitions around the world and in 2019, 2020 and 2022 she was a finalist for the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award.

In addition to her impressive artistic accomplishments, Marci also teaches at The Learning Connexion in Lower Hutt, where she has developed and expanded her interdisciplinary art practice.

Her collaborative, interactive exhibition entitled “Selective Memory”, which she created with fellow printmaker Toni Mosley, was shown at Railway Street Studios in Auckland in 2019.

During her six-week residency at Marsden, Marci will have use of a designated studio space in the Art and Design Department known as

the “Art House”.

She will mentor and instruct students in a wide range of themes, culminating in an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington that includes her body of work, as well as some of the students’ art.

One of the key messages that Marci tries to instil in her students is that “they are in charge of their own creative journeys ultimately and that by learning to observe and analyse their processes they will improve their outcomes, and they will have an exciting time doing it!”

Through programmes such as the Artist in Residence and other creative initiatives, Marsden School seeks to inspire young learners to aspire to be creative thinkers who can think outside the norm, visualise new solutions, and make a difference in the world of tomorrow.

“The programme is a testament to our commitment to fostering creativity and artistic excellence, and we welcome Marci to our

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Local resident in new book

By Frank Neill

Khandallah resident Noeline Ritson features in the new book “Stories of Service – Wartime memories of Ryman residents”.

The book is Ryman Healthcare’s seventh annual Anzac Day book.

Noeline, who is 105, is a resident of the Malvina Major Retirement Village in Burma Road.

When she was 23 she heard the army was looking for women to work in the Middle East and decided she would like to go.

She showed the application to her parents.

“My mother started to cry and my father was grumpy so I thought ‘this is no good – I’ll tear it up and not go’,” Noeline says.

“Six weeks later the New Zealand Air Force wanted recruits and I thought ‘I’ll do my bit’. Being in New Zealand, that was okay.”

Noeline went to Whenuapai, where she worked as a medic.

“The matron said: ‘I don’t think you’ll stand up to it my girl’. I said: ‘I think I will’.”

Noeline proved the matron wrong and stayed in the Air Force until the end of the war in 1945.

At Whenuapai they worked in a small hospital in a nearby house and the hospital staff were billeted in local homes.

They had to treat pilots for serious injuries following many Tiger Moth accidents, as well as treating diseases and illnesses like influenza.

Noeline worked at Whenuapai for about 18 months before she was transferred to Seagrove Station, just out of Papamoa.

She was also sent to Hobsonville’s No 1

hospital, where they treated “the boys coming home with skin complaints,” she says.

“It was like an ordinary job, but you had shift work until 10pm.”

However, “you were restricted and you couldn’t leave the station without a pass and you had to be in by 10pm.”

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Noeline Ritson who features in the new book “Stories of Service – Wartime memories of Ryman residents”. Photo: Supplied.

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Music smorgasbord coming to capital

By Frank Neill

From jazz to classical to the Eagles, there will be something for everyone at the Wellington Male Voice Choir’s first concert of the year.

Entitled “Smorgasbord of Styles”, the concert will be held at the Queen Margaret College Hall, 53 Hobson Street on Sunday 7 May, starting at 3pm.

The wide variety of musical styles will celebrate diversity in music. This year the choir is using a new way of selling tickets, through the online ticketing agency Eventbrite. People can buy tickets in three ways.

One is directly from the Eventbrite website, https://www.eventbrite. co.nz/o/wellington-male-voicechoir-63331296413.

The second is from the choir’s website, https://www.wellingtonmvcnz.org/.

The third is at door sales on the

Flea market coming to Karori

By Frank Neill

day of the concert.

The Wellington Male Voice Choir (WMVC) was formed in 1961 as the Onslow Male Voice Choir, changing its name to WMVC in 1992.

The choir rehearses in Tawa on Thursday evenings from February to November with three aims.

The first is to provide entertainment, the second to enjoy the fellowship of male voice singing and the third is to continually improve as a choir.

WMVC regularly sings at retirement villages and functions in the greater Wellington area.

It has also participated in five New Zealand festivals of male voice choirs.

The choir celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011 with two joint concerts that also featured the Orange Male Voice Choir from New South Wales and the Nelson Male Voice Choir. In November last year they celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Nelson Male

Voice Choir with a joint concert in Nelson.

WMVC’s Music Director Mark Stamper, who lives in Wellington’s northern suburbs, has a notable record.

His choirs have consistently received accolades from critics and judges at festivals and concerts.

In 2006 – 2007, he was the Principal Accompanist for La Boheme and Madame Butterfly with the Fort Worth Opera.

Mark was the Chorus Master for Lucia di Lammermoor and Of Mice and Men in 2008, where his chorus received great reviews from the critics.

He began playing the piano when he was three, and went on to receive a Batchelor of Music in Piano Performance from Winthrop University in 1986.

Mark began his conducting career at 16 years old with a choir in his own hometown. Since then, he has worked with community choirs

A flea market to help raise money for a group of Karori boys, who are travelling overseas later this year on a Japanese exchange programme for Wellington College, will be held at the Youth Room at Karori Community Centre on Sunday 14 May from 9am to 1pm.

Tables cost $15 each and are open to all Karori community members. There is only one stall size - 1.5 metres deep by 2metres long.

Foxtail Events is hosting the flea market.

There are limited spaces available, so if you are interested email hello@foxtailevents.co.nz. Please advise if you are bringing a trestle table or clothes racks. The event page is at https://fb.me/e/ YURwg3Y1.

“Community + Collaboration”, the theme for this year’s New Zealand Music Month, has a familiar ring to it, because the staff at the Johnsonville Library at Waitohi Hub feel that this sums up their way of thinking too.

With this theme in mind, what better way to bring the world of music and community together than to have some community-based performances on the terraces at Johnsonville Library?

“The month of May really will be an ongoing celebration of music with performances from a really diverse bunch of people,” says Sue Jane, Community Librarian at Johnsonville Library.

“And we’re excited that so many individuals and community music-makers want to be involved. What’s also great

is that much of the music to be performed will be original material.”

Expect to hear everything from the Waitohi Kindergarten choir to the Swing Club Ukulele Music Group, SoundsWell Singers Neurological Choir to individual artists such as Jack Hooker on acoustic guitar, Richard Prowse on double bass and violin, Floyd Marsden and Cian Ye – regular users of the HIVE Recording Studio – putting the library’s instruments and equipment through its paces – and Ethan Morrison, a Newtown librarian, playing guitar.

For more information go to the Johnsonville Library’s Facebook page or pop into the library to pick up a flyer.

All performances are free, will be performed in the library spaces, and are open to all.

He is the founder and artistic director of the professional choir Inspirare, directs Queen Margaret College Chorales and four additional ensembles: Sing Your Lungs Out Wellington, Wellington Young Voices, the Wellington Youth Choir and WMVC.

Mark began conducting the WMVC in July 2019.

The Wellington Male Voice Choir, who will sing at their first 2023 concert on 7 May. Photo: Supplied. ranging from children to seniors, high school choirs, church choirs and professional ensembles. He made his operatic conducting debut when he was granted the honour of being the first conductor apprentice to conduct an opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. Originally from South Carolina, Mark moved to Wellington in 2015.

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ABOVE: The Swing Club Ukulele Music Group performing at the Johnsonville Library in 2021.

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RIGHT: Guitars and a piano at the HIVE Recording Studio at the Johnsonville Library. Photo: Supplied.

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Steve Carlin and High Tea at the Johnsonville Club this Mother’s Day

Why not combine two great events at the Johnsonville Club with well known Wellington musician Steve Carlin playing at the Club’s Mother’s Day High Tea on Sunday 14 May?

Steve is a popular crooner and his forte is songs from the swing era... Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Michael Bublé...and more!.

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The High Tea is being hosted at the Capital Bistro which is in the same complex as the Johnsonville Club. The Teas consist of sandwiches, rolls, desserts and much more!

We have created three half hour blocks to ensure that everyone receives their food at their preferred time slot – this

Nobel prize winner to speak on climate at Midland Park

Nobel prize winner Wellingtonian Professor Martin Manning is to speak on the climate crisis this Friday 1230pm at Midland Park, Lambton Quay, Wellington.

Professor Manning is one of the international panel on a climate change group that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with former US vice-president Al Gore.

The first rally is organised by Fridays for Futures, a group calling for immediate action on reducing greenhouse gases like methane from cows as well as putting an end to burning fossil fuels.

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The most common general signs of illness are fever, pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, cough, headache and rash. Fever (body temperature above 37°C) indicates that the body is ‘fighting’ infection from either bacteria or viruses. Children’s natural defence mechanisms are less well-developed than adults’ immune systems, so children are at higher risk of infections.

Fever accompanied by cough, runny or blocked nose and headache can signify the common cold. “Ask us about our Children’s Pain & Fever fact card”, recommend Self Care pharmacists, “because this has a lot of helpful hints for looking after sick children. Also it indicates what other signs to look out for in children that indicate more serious illnesses.”

Keeping your child comfortable in bed, giving plenty of fluids, and using liquid medicines such as paracetamol or ibuprofen to reduce fever, are best when your child has a cold.

“But” advice from Self Care pharmacists is “use proper medicine-measuring spoons when measuring-out doses of liquid medicines. Don’t use kitchen teaspoons because they are not accurate, the volume varies from spoon to spoon, and your child will not receive the correct dose of medicine.”

It is important to look out for sore throats in children as it can lead to Rheumatic Fever. This is a serious illness that affects mainly Maori and Pacific children and young people, aged four and above.

Sore throats generally clear up by themselves but “strep” sore throats can lead to rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease which can be life threatening. It is important to check up children with sore throats so if they do have a “strep” sore throat they can be treated with antibiotics and stop the illness progressing any further.

If you are unsure then get in touch with your pharmacist, doctor or nurse.

Parents can encourage their children to take simple steps to help prevent the spread of some illnesses.

Children should cover their mouths and noses when they sneeze and cough, and then wash their hands straight after. Washing hands is also VERY important after going to the toilet, and before eating. They should not share cups and drink bottles, nor spoons and other eating utensils. Tissues are best

for blowing noses, and then they should be thrown away immediately after use.

Immunisation is generally one of the most effective ways of protecting children against infections that can cause serious diseases and associated complications (including death). All forms of immunisation work by causing the body to produce an immune response, in the same way it would if exposed to the disease but without the child suffering all the symptoms and consequences. In the future, when the child comes into contact with the disease, the immune system responds quickly and helps prevent the child developing the disease.

The World Health organisation and the Ministry of Health recommend immunisation for your children. However there may be cases where it is not suitable to immunise and it is important to see your pharmacist or doctor regarding possible risks and/or contraindications.

Children with asthma or allergies, or who are recovering from an illness, such as a common cold, can be immunised.

Free immunisation, at specific times in a child’s life according to the Ministry of Health’s immunisation schedule, is available to all children in New Zealand, to protect against a number of diseases – diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae type b (a cause of childhood meningitis), pneumococcal disease, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus and whooping cough.

Side effects from vaccines can sometimes occur and include redness and soreness at the injection site. There may also be mild fever. While these symptoms may be upsetting at the time, the benefit is protection from the disease. More serious reactions to immunisation are very rare.

Ask your Self Care pharmacists for a copy of the Children’s Illnesses and Children’s Pain & Fever fact cards that contains useful information for parents.

Volunteer awards open

Volunteer Wellington has opened nominations for the Mahi Aroha Awards 2023.

The Mahi Aroha Awards recognise and celebrate the contribution and achievements of outstanding volunteers in the community.

ALL THINGS

The awards are open to any community organisation or business in the Wellington region.

This is a special way to say “thank you” to the volunteers that do so much mahi in many outstanding organisations.

The categories are: Volunteer of the Year Award – do you have a superstar volunteer you’d like to nominate?

Team Governance Award –nominate your amazing board. Employee Volunteering Community Award – do you have a

business or government agency making a difference to your community organisation?

Nominations close on 19 May.

“We encourage everyone in Wellington to take this opportunity to recognise the inspiring work of their peers and

colleagues by nominating them for the Mahi Aroha Awards 2023,” says Julie Thomson, Volunteer Wellington’s Regional Manager . For more information and online nomination forms see www.volunteerwellington.nz.

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Community awards nominations open

By Frank Neill

Nominations are now open for the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards.

The awards recognise the work carried out by volunteer groups in the wider Wellington region.

The nominations for this year’s awards opened on 1 April and close on 31 May. People can submit nominations online at https://www.wellingtonairport.

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co.nz/community/wellingtonairport-community-awards/ community-awards/form/ Nominations can be submitted in one of the following categories: arts and culture; education and child/youth development; health and wellbeing; heritage and environment; sport and leisure; and the rising star award – designed to recognise and

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Mon 1 May 2023 7–9pm

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encourage emerging grassroots groups.

Key factors considered during judging are: volunteer input; utilisation of resources; innovation and creativity; effectiveness of activities; impact within the community; and recent activities (undertaken during the past 1-2 years).

Once the nominations are in, each of the five councils in the

Khandallah School

Tatai ki te rangi

Out of zone enrolments are now open for Terms 3 & 4 2023

The Board of trustees invites applications from parents who wish to enrol “out of zone” students at Khandallah School. Enrolment at Khandallah School is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available on the school website. Application for out of zone places are now being invited for those students who will become eligible for enrolment during Terms 3 & 4 2023. Applications are made on the Official enrolment form, which is available at the school office or online on the school website.

The deadline for receipt of applications for out of zone places is Friday 26th May 2023. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held Friday 2nd June 2023. If you live in the home zone and not yet signalled your intention to enrol your child, please contact the school to assist us to plan appropriately for the year.

Please contact the school office, phone 04 479 6685 for details regarding the application process or email office@khandallah.school.nz.

ACROSS 1. Trivial (11) 7. Weakly sentimental (7) 11. Small candle (5) 12. & 14 ACROSS Confused (2,5,3,6)

14. SEE 12 ACROSS.

15. Spacious (9)

16. Nearly (6)

18. Animal of the weasel family (7)

21. Small island (4)

23. Consume (3)

25. Short sleep (3)

27. Colour (4)

28. In sight (7)

30. Barrel maker (6)

32. Look (3)

33. Snow runner (3)

34. Closer (6)

35. Some (7)

36. Ballad (4)

39. Garland (3) 41. Whirl (4) 43. Ungenerous (7) 45. Traps (6)

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55. Takes back property (for non–payment)(11)

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1. Extreme.(5)

2. Baggage (11)

3. Obstinately wrong (8)

4. Harvested (6)

5. Donkeys (5)

6. Character (7)

7. Band member (8)

8. Sift (6)

9. Hinders (7)

10. Punctured (5)

16. Frequents (7)

17. Inns (7)

19. Think (5)

20. Grapples with (7)

22. Angers (7)

24. Bind (3)

26. Maori dance prop (3)

29. Looks slyly at (5)

31. Deed holders (11)

32. Ocean (3)

33. Large Indian tree (3)

greater Wellington region select five category runners-up, five category winners, one rising star winner and one supreme winner.

Later in the year, members of the public will have an opportunity to vote for the finalists in the regional People’s Choice award.

The regional category, People’s Choice and Supreme Award winners will be named at an awards dinner hosted by Wellington Airport.

38. Dreadful (8)

40. Very quickly (2,2,4)

42. Repeat (7)

44. Zeal (7)

46. Rise (6)

47. Wakens (6)

48. Hauls (5)

49. Preen (5)

50. Chores (5)

Solution

Last Week 20 April 2023

February

Victory to start the season

The Waterside Karori women’s football team kicked off its 2023 Central League season with a 2-0 victory over North Wellington at Alex Moore Park on 22 April.

Emma Narelle scored both the goals, the first in the 43rd minute and the second in the 59th minute.

Widely picked as a likely title contender Waterside Karori’s next match is against Seatoun at Karori Park on 29 April.

In the other matches of round one Petone beat Palmerston North Marist 3-1, Victoria University defeated new entrants Taradale 2-1 and Wellington United beat Seatoun 4-0. Waterside Karori did not fare so

well in round five of the men’s Central League, and North Wellington also lost its match.

North Wellington had no answer to the possession-based football played by the Wellington Phoenix Reserves at Alex Moore Park on 22 April.

Going into the sheds 2-0 down at the break and conceding two penalties, played a significant part in the 4-0 win by the Nix.

It was a similar feeling for Waterside Karori who had to endure a long road trip to Park Island where they were on the receiving end of a 5-0 drubbing at the hands of a resurgent Napier City Rovers on 23 April.

There are still no points on the

board for Whanganui Athletic who also hit the road and travelled to Hutt Park where they went down 3-1 to Stop Out.

Petone were the surprise early leaders against top of the table Wellington Olympic. Petone had notched up two goals in the first half hour and there was no doubt some anxious moments at Olympic control.

Normal transmission resumed shortly afterwards though and Olympic came out with their reputation intact for a 4-2 win, including a hattrick by Jack-Henry Sinclair.

The surprise of the round however was Western Suburbs convincing 3-1 win over Miramar Rangers.

Johnsonville shares honours

By Frank Neill

The Johnsonville Hawks and Marist St Pats shared the honours when they drew 31-31 in Wellington Rugby’s premier Swindale Shield competition on 22 April.

Johnsonville was disappointed that they let Marist St Pats come back into the match, rebounding from being down 12-24.

It took a last minute try for the Marist team to snatch the draw in the

match, played on their home ground of Evans Bay Park.

Lucas Aukuso was outstanding for the Hawks, and was rewarded when he scored a try.

Sergio Hollis and James Douglas also played well for Johnsonville.

Jacob Walmsley, Oliver Paotonu and Sean Rankin scored tries for the Hawks, while Mark Sutton added one conversion and three penalties.

Johnsonville’s next match is against the third placed Oriental

Rongotai on 29 April.

When Northern United led Poneke 17-6 in the first half, they were looking to score a convincing victory. It was not to be, however.

Norths added only three more points, while Poneke notched up another 33 points to win the match 39-20.

Played at Kilbirnie Park, the match saw Norths head into the half time break with a 17-11 lead.

However Norths lost wing Liki

Siliga to a yellow card early in the first half, which significantly assisted the home team. Their three tries, scored in the opening 30 minutes, came to first five eight Dudley Parsons and loose forwards Olano Afutoto and Luca Rees.

Northern United’s next match is against the unbeaten Upper Hutt Rams on 29 April.

The Norths women’s team, playing in the third round of the Rebecca

Liua’ana Trophy, defeated Paremata-Plimmerton 25-5 on 22 April. This saw Norths finish the day as one of only two unbeaten teams in the women’s premiere competition, along with Petone. The two teams have also scored the maximum 15 points.

After scoring five tries, the Norths women looked like they would keep Paremata-Plimmerton scoreless, only to see them cross the line right at the end of the match.

5 De-cluttering Tips? YIP!

Hey Everyone! With the wet weather creeping in, now may be a great time to start re-organising and decluttering your home. You don’t have to be selling your home to declutter! Decluttering your home can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. With the right approach, it can be a manageable and even enjoyable process. Here are 5 tips to help you declutter your home:

1. Baby Steps

Don’t try to do your entire house in one go. Instead, start by focusing on one area at a time. Pick a single room or even just a cupboard to start with. We just did under the stairs last week and even that gave us a sense of accomplishment and motivation to keep going.

2. Four Piles

As you start to declutter, sort things into “keep”, “sell/donate”, “chuck”, and “maybe”. Be honest with yourself and don’t hold onto items you don’t need or use. Regularly emptying these ‘piles’ is a great way to feel a sense of progress.

3. Take your time

Decluttering can be emotionally and physically exhausting, so it’s important to take breaks. Don’t try to do too many days in a row. Instead, take breaks as needed and pace yourself. There is no rush.

4. Don’t double up

Do you really need 3 can openers?

Decluttering isn’t just about removing things you don’t need but also simplifying your lives. Do you have a drawer full of plastic containers… or a box full of odd screws and bits left-over from kit-set furniture installs?... you know what you have to do.

5. Miss it?

When we go to sell houses, it is amazing how often we see people have boxes in storage that haven’t been open since the day they moved in with them. If you haven’t needed to use it for a

long period of time, you don’t need it! Remember, decluttering is not just about getting rid of stuff, it’s about creating a more organized and peaceful space for you and your family to enjoy. Also if you have things to donate, check out our charity shop FreeForAll in Porirua, it is a free op shop that redistributes waste from landfills!

Live Simply, Give More, Expect Less

Have a wonderful week!

Action from the local derby featuring Waterside Karori and North Wellington. Photo: k0kophotos.

Action from Johnsonville’s match with Marist St Pats. Photo: Andy McArthur.