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CARDBOARD may not be the usual material for building THEY may not be the fastest, the strongest or the most agile, hospital wards, but in a warehouse in Riccarton that’s exactly but one thing the Three Stooges definitely have on their side is what’s happening. experience. Christchurch Hospital is being rebuilt from the ground up as With a combined age of 222, they’re preparing to take on this part of a multimillion dollar project, but before the foundations year’s Speight’s Coast to Coast. go down, teams are busy designing what the hospital’s interior In the newly created three-person teams section, retired hotelier would look like by making life-sized cardboard mock-ups. Eric Hunter, 79, will do the 140 kilometres of cycling, retired These include possibilities for rooms of up to 24 patients, engineer Mike White, 78, will be the oldest person ever to do the instead of the usual six. 33km mountain run and company director Darryl Symonds, the The earthquakes of the past two years caused more than $100 baby of the team at age 65, will take on the 67km kayak stage. million worth of damage to Canterbury’s hospital facilities. Along with about 800 other competitors, they will traverse the About 200 buildings and more than 1200 rooms needed South Island from Kumara Beach on the West Coast to Sumner repairs and 106 rooms were lost after two floors in Christchurch Beach, on February 8 and 9. Hospital’s Riverside Block were closed. The three are no strangers to the world-famous multisport Last year a half-billion-dollar redevelopment of the hospital race. was announced, and since then a team of 12 has been busy “I did it four times way back in the 80s, once on my own and designing multi-bedded rooms. then three times with each of my three children. Each year another Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) chief executive

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David Meates said the current ward designs in most of the city’s one of my kids said they wanted to do it with their dad. That was hospitals were very old and traditional. nice, but I threatened the fourth child not to ask me because I “And really not fit for purpose for how we deliver care today didn’t want to do it again,” Mr White said. and into the future so what we are looking at is stepping right However, Mr Hunter persuaded him to give it another go. away from any of the constraints with thinking about wards.” Mr Hunter and Mr Symonds have also done the event several Nursing director Nicky Topp said there were alternatives to times, winning the team section in its very first year, 1983. doing things the way they had always been done. While all three are active and fit, they’ve conceded they “We’re not taking a classic design and just making that the probably won’t be standing on the winner’s podium. Their goal? new hospital; we’re going to build a hospital for people.” “Staying alive!” Mr Hunter said. “We’re not going to bust our Ms Topp said if they were designing something different, they guts; we’re going to stay safe.” had to see how it would work. “We would be very embarrassed if we don’t finish,” Mr “It just gives you the opportunity of actually making it a Symonds said. working space before you build. It’s easier to change this kind They face plenty of challenges, with Mr White nursing a torn of thing, cardboard and beds, than it is to change plumbing and calf muscle and Mr Symonds testing out different kayaks, settling concrete.” on a wider sea kayak. “We’re making sure everything fits and the work flow is good, “Because of my fatness and its stability!” he said. the visibility of patients is good,” CDHB chief medical officer For Mr Hunter the first four kilometres will be the hardest –he Doctor Nigel Millar said.

Designers working on the concept for one of the new patient has to run from the start line to his bike. hubs are exploring the possibility of rooms with 16 to 24 beds, “I have arthritis in both my knees and I’m taking some form of instead of the traditional four to six beds per room. medication to make that a little easier for myself. The bike won’t Health Minister Tony Ryall took a tour through the models last be too difficult except that I will be with the slower riders and of week was left feeling impressed. course that’s not going to be easy because that’s very often where “Rebuilding a hospital is a very expensive thing to do and we the crashes are.” will be having the single biggest hospital project…in the history “I have done a lot of mountaineering and climbing and tramping of New Zealand happening here in Christchurch. What we are so the environment is no problem to me but you know I won’t be seeing here is smart ideas to provide better care for patients able to do it fast, that’s the trouble at my age,” Mr White said. within a tight budget and that’s pretty inspiring.” Mr Symonds seemed the most relaxed, even jetting to Japan for About 2000 people from the health sector have been through a skiing holiday the week before the race. the facility to have a look and give input and another 1000 are “Well it’s only a paddle, and I usually go for a paddle expected in the next month. anyway!” Once more permanent designs are in place the public will get For those who ask why – Eric Hunter asks why not. the chance to tour the warehouse. “We put a challenge out for anybody that can accumulate 222 See this story on CTV On Demand, www.ctv.co.nz – CTV years and still beat us!” News February 5, 2013. Story by Jo Kane and Samantha early

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THIS week is Lifeline’s national awareness week and the organisation is planning to appeal to businesses in Christchurch to fundraise for the free telephone counselling service, which gets 15,000 calls per year. People’s main concerns were relationships, depression, loneliness, anxiety and stress,

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Student victim of vicious attack AN unprovoked bashing of a Chinese student in Upper Riccarton on Waitangi Day could have serious implications for Christchurch’s international education sector. The young man, who only wanted to be known as Andrew, was set upon by up to three men while walking along English Street between 9.30pm and 10pm on February 6. A friend, who had spoken with him since, said Andrew was walking on the footpath when two men came out of a car, possibly a dark blue BMW, swore at him and attacked him. “He tried to run and then around the corner came another man, which put him on the floor and then he lost consciousness,” the friend said. A nearby resident assisted Andrew and he was taken to hospital. He was later discharged and managed to attend Chinese New Year celebrations on Friday, but the ordeal is far from over – he’s due to have surgery on his fractured eye socket next week. A spokesman for Andrew’s language school, who did not want the school named for fear of repercussions, said apart from the negative effect the attack had on students of his particular college, the ramifications could be far wider.

“This particular student is very well connected in Hunan province in China, at you might say at a sort of government level, so the implications are quite serious for international education in Christchurch.” The city’s whole international education sector has been struggling since the February 2011 earthquake, when students were among the 115 killed in the CTV building collapse. A new organisation, Christchurch Educated, was formed by the Government late last year to market Christchurch as a safe and secure place for people to come and study. “The last thing we need is this sort of thuggery in public places, and to add insult to injury this was on Waitangi Day, the so-called celebrating of New Zealand,” the language school spokesman said. “Interestingly nothing was stolen, so it seems to be that it might just have been a random attack. It may have been racially motivated, I don’t quite know.” As of Tuesday, Detective Senior Sergeant Darryl Sweeney said Police had interviewed the victim along with other witnesses and investigators were following positive lines of enquiry.

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CANTERBURY Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker have announced a joint accord deferring the Christchurch City Council’s Long Term Plan until 2015 to allow an earthquake recovery cost-sharing method to be mutually agreed on. Instead the council will undertake a new plan, to be called the Christchurch City Three Year Plan. Under the Local Government Act the council is required to begin consultation on its Long Term Plan in March. However, councillors agreed at a special meeting on Monday to adopt the Christchurch City Three Year Plan and commence consultation in March as planned. Cera’s powers will be invoked to allow the Long Term Plan process to be deferred until 2015.

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the fiscal robustness that will be needed to ensure that there is financial security for all involved. Waiting in the wings is Minister Parata’s rushed decision to close or merge schools in one breath and build new schools in another. There will be winners and losers and that in itself pits one community against another. It almost feels as if we’re living in one big experiment and that the strongest or the savviest will survive. Up against a Government that controls our whole destiny, we could be making it too easy for them in all the rhetoric that surrounds what’s really going on. The social experiment being trialled in the guise of the aftermath of our greatest natural disaster and despite a smattering of fight the relentless drive to control every facet of the rebuild continues. The Christchurch City Council’s 10-year plan delay and the new accord with the Government as they both work out who’s going to pay for the grandiose anchor projects should be a worry as what you won’t be told is how much it will cost to operate and maintain them. Maybe the Mainzeal troubles will seem child’s play to the hapless ratepayers as the inevitable rate take will need to account for Minister Brownlee’s new city. We are surrounded with pressure and like the cooker or the camel one can only wonder how many more surprises we can all take.

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Re: Novopay debacle “A complete shambles.... which should have seen more heads roll,” - Jo Kane wrote in Mainland Press January 31. Considering it was the Labour Government which awarded the contract, perhaps Jo could commence with Clayton Cosgrove, Brendon

Burns, Helen Clark and Annette King. After having her guillotine serviced, she could then work her way through the rest of the Labour Cabinet responsible. Bob Oliver Casebrook

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Television pays off WHEN the telly plays up you need to get behind it to check the plugs. Ugh! Dead flies! It’s the same with television companies. All you need to know about TVNZ is in the back of their annual report. That’s where they publish the salaries of their high rollers. In the past decade, the number of TVNZ’s employees on $100,000-plus a year has risen from 138 to 204. In 2002, however, a third (47) of the state broadcaster’s top earners were involved in the transmission side of the business. That means the number involved in making the pictures has more than doubled. Some of them now earn up to 17 times the average wage. TVNZ’s highest earners used to be their big on-screen stars. Since 2004, though, the fattest pay packets go to senior executives and management. They won’t match numbers to names, but the highest salary of $902,000 in 2011 would have gone to departed chief executive Rick Ellis. His successor, Kevin Kenrick, would be looking to chase that, despite having no prior experience of the business. On the transmission side, the engineers have been doing even better. TVNZ’s engineering subsidiary, BCL (Broadcast Communications Ltd) was split off in 2003. Now called Kordia it has 734 employees on $100,000-plus, half of

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THIS year’s Festival of Flowers will have a Chinese New Year theme, including a giant snake to celebrate the Year of the Snake. The snake is 10 metres long and Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology intern Yong Yang Ma said it made sense to incorporate the Chinese zodiac animals as a different topiary animal was created each year for the festival anyway. There will be a two-hour Chinese New Year celebration which will include a lion dance, tai chi, Chinese modern dancers, a magic show and colourful costumes. People will also be able to get their names written in Chinese characters. The Christchurch Botanic Gardens have been around for 150 years so to celebrate the anniversary there will be floral arrangements with themes symbolic to each year the gardens

have existed. These arrangements, called bungalows, used to be part of the festival when it was held in the Christ Church Cathedral and were a way to mark the memory of the Cathedral in the festival. The festival moved to the Botanic Gardens two years ago following the Christchurch earthquakes. The centrepiece of the festival is a collaboration art piece by Craig Pocock and Darryn George of a high floral wall, typical of Mr George’s paintings with big blocks of colour and Māori words. According to Festival of Flowers organiser Devi Benson the artwork will remain as a legacy and a “guardian of the city”. The Festival of Flowers takes place from February 16 until March 3.

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Council and iwi join forces to restore lake A JOINT consent application will be lodged between Christchurch City Council and Ngāi Tahu over the opening of Te Roto o Wairewa/ Lake Forsyth to restore the lake’s water quality and fishery and avoid flooding. This is the first ever joint application between the two parties and it seeks to replace previous consent for beach openings and the experimental groyne and canal opening that Wairewa rūnanga has been trialing for the past three years. The consent application proposed that the rūnanga canal outlet be principally used and

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Together again: Opawa School’s class of 1941 to 1949. Inset: Instigator Brian Bremner and the class photo from 1941.

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AFTER more than seven decades, school yard memories are as vivid as yesterday for a group of former Opawa School classmates, who catch up every year. About 19 from the class of 1941 to 1949 got together last week at the home of Barry Tewnion in Yaldhurst. All of them are now aged 76 or 77. The group has been meeting up at each other’s homes every February since 1998. The idea for the reunion came about at the school’s 125th anniversary celebration the year before and one of the classmates, Brian Bremner, was a key instigator. Co-organiser Eleanor Gillespie said when they got together they reminisced about their teachers, sporting rivalries and how they used to get the strap. They also remembered doing air raid shelter drills during World War Two. Mrs Gillespie said though they went on to

different walks of life, from missionaries to school teachers to farmers to company directors, all enjoyed being together again. “I keep telling my grandchildren, the friends you make at school are friends forever.” One of the top students was Barry Dineen, who was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the recent New Year’s Honours for services to business and the arts. Now living in Wellington, Mr Dineen, who had a longstanding involvement with Shell in New Zealand and overseas, said it was great to catch up with old friends. “It’s amazing actually how much comes back. It’s funny how many things I remember from a long time ago when I can’t remember what happened last week!” he said. Mrs Gillespie and fellow organiser Barry Hayes said it was easier to track down the men than the women, who often changed their names when they got married.

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A MERGER of two Baptist churches will enable them to better serve the growing south-west Christchurch community, their pastors say. Spreydon Baptist and Halswell Baptist will celebrate becoming one church at a combined service to be held at the Air Force Museum, Wigram at 10am this Sunday. The churches are in the process of changing their name, which will be formalised by vote at the Annual General Meeting in April – a name being mooted is South West Baptist Church. Spreydon Baptist senior pastor Alan Jamieson said an estimated 20,000 people were expected to move into the southwest Christchurch area in the next decade, something that had been accelerated following the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. “For 12 to 14 months we’ve been talking with Halswell, asking what would be the best way for us to work to serve the south-west and those conversations led to the growing conviction the best way would actually be to combine.” Halswell Baptist assistant pastor Warren

Read said the church had been punching above its weight in delivering community services and events but they didn’t have enough people and resources to do the work they wanted to. “We looked at what it would mean if we joined together in terms of mission and in terms of doing community activities and so it was a bit of a no-brainer really. The more people you have, the more resources you have, the more you can do in the community.” Spreydon Baptist has about 1400 people attending its Sunday services, while Halswell has about 140. The churches connect with thousands more people each week through events and community ministries, which include four preschools, several youth groups, family and social services. Spreydon Baptist’s history dates back to 1865, when a young farm labourer named Thomas Jefcoate organised church services in a tiny sod house in a paddock near Wrights Road. In 1882 the church moved to a building in

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FORMER St Martins couple Chub and Rita Fisher, who celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on February 10, say they would not change a thing if they had their time over again. “We would do the same thing again. We haven’t any regrets about marriage. None whatsoever,” the couple said. Chub, aged 94, and Rita, aged 90, have endured uncertainty since Canterbury’s earthquakes, but together have weathered their St Martins townhouse becoming a victim of the quakes and the upheaval and change that came with it. They lived with their daughter Sandra and Harry Harrison, near Sefton for eight months, before moving to the Kaiapoi Temporary Earthquake Village - which was their home for 64 weeks. About a fortnight ago the couple moved to Northbrook Villas in Rangiora after finally settling with their insurance company and they celebrated their 70-year milestone in their new surrounds at the clubrooms at the villas with family and friends. The former West Coasters - Chub being born in Rewanui and Rita, Blackwater - were married in the Holy Trinity at Greymouth in a quiet ceremony with close family on February 10, 1943, after meeting at one of the regular dances held at Schaefers Dance Hall. World War Two intervened in the young couple’s courtship. They were engaged but promised Rita’s family they would not marry until Rita was 21. But when Rita was “manpowered” to the Hokitika Mental Hospital to nurse, those plans were turned upside down. Rita worked at J R McKenzies in Greymouth when she was “manpowered”, but her boss urged her to appeal ,which required her attending court. “I had to dress up with a hat and gloves before going into the witness box and I was told by the Manpower that I would go as a nurse. I said I would be willing to go as a cleaner or cook, but could not nurse. The three-man committee told me I would go where I was told and if I did not go I would go to jail,” she said. Chub escaped serving in the war because he was in an essential industry - coalmining. He was pulled off the train after being conscripted as he headed to camp. “They left me on the platform and I didn’t have to go to war,” said Chub, who decided if Rita and he were to marry she may not have to be “manpowered”. He gained permission from her family to marry before Rita was 21 and the two were married just before 6pm on February 10. “You can’t get married after 6pm. We made it just in time,” Rita said. The couple set out on a six-hour trip to Christchurch for their honeymoon. But when the train stopped at Arthurs Pass they thought they had been sprung when it was announced there was a telegram for Mr and Mrs Fisher. “I thought ‘they have got me’. But it turned out to be from my best friend who I worked next door to every day,” Rita said. The young couple lived with Chub’s parents in Rununga until they bought a 60-year-old

Special anniversary: Rita and Chub Fisher in the new home at Northbrook Villas.

house, which was to be their home for the next 12 years. Chub joined the Rununga Volunteer Fire brigade, which was formed in 1943, and of which he is the only surviving life member. He was honoured recently to cut the ribbon at the opening of the new fire station. The couple had three children, Peter (deceased), Sandra and Jill, with Jill as a two-year-old having the first tracheotomy at Greymouth due to a blockage. She was then taken in a special carriage at the rear of a train to meet an ambulance to take her to Christchurch Hospital. She travelled complete with oxygen and a nurse, and remained in hospital for weeks with her hands tied to her cot to stop her pulling out the tubes. “Today she would have been transferred by helicopter,” Rita said. The Fisher family’s move to Christchurch followed their daughter, Sandra, suffering a kidney complaint, which was later found to have been caused by perforated tonsils. Sandra had gone to stay with her auntie, Vera Hurrell, in the city where her health improved and where it was evident she would be better off living. Rita and Chub refused to allow their family to be split up, so they moved to Christchurch where they bought a seven-day dairy in Shirley.

Chub had been working in a private coalmine, Moore and Party, at Eight Mile, for seven years, and found city life a huge change. When he went to the markets he had to go the same way each time. Otherwise, if he got lost he had to go back and start again. As there was not enough work in the shop for two, Chub took a job at McVicars Sawmill in Papanui and moved on to a bread delivery round. A friend, who delivered bread to shops offered him the job and travelled with him until he knew the route he had to travel. “With the bread run it worked in better to help Rita in the shop,” he said. He also took up a job delivering the Christchurch Star and Sport Extra in the evenings. The dairy was sold after seven years and when the couple built a house in Emlyn Place, off Avonside Drive, Chub continued with the earlymorning deliveries for the bakehouse and worked at a sheet metal factory in the afternoon. Rita and Chub owned a caravan and a bach at Kairaki Beach and moved into a townhouse in St Martins as their children left home. On retiring they would spend up to six days a week at the bach enjoying beach life, whitebaiting and salmon fishing, activities their adult children and

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Infrastructure work prompts new traffic management at Middleton MAJOR works start today on the installation of a major new wastewater pressure main pipe through Middleton’s commercial and industrial area at Birmingham Drive. To deal with the heavy traffic flow, Birmingham Drive has a one-way system in place towards the Wrights Road roundabout flowing east. A detour is in place for west-bound traffic via Wrights Rd, Matipo Street, Blenheim and Annex roads. The crew will be working along Birmingham Drive, from the Wrights Road roundabout to Marylands Reserve. SCIRT’s advice for people using the road is to plan their trip, expect delays and choose alternative routes. If possible they should travel outside of peak hours and use alternative transport. A signposted car park at Addington Raceway’s northern site near the roundabout has 80 places available, particularly for the businesses and offices affected by the works.

At some stages, the construction team will be working over, or near, driveways on the south side of Birmingham Drive. The aim is to keep access available or to arrange alternative access points. People are advised to contact Fulton Hogan on 0800 277 34 34 if they have any special access requirements. The pipe is to service 15,000 households in new areas of growth including Wigram Skies and the new Halswell subdivisions, which are being developed to accommodate the population growth in these areas following the earthquakes. SCIRT advises the significant trafficmanagement difficulty is that Birmingham Drive has around 15,000 vehicle movements each day, making it too busy to run a manual Stop/ Go system, hence the one-way solution. Detour routes include Lunns Rd and Blenheim Rd, which are also busy. Completion of the work is scheduled for mid2013.

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Water boys: New Zealand record and title holder for the 200-metre breast stroke George Schroder, Secondary School New Zealand squad 2012 and New Zealand U16 water polo team 2011 team member Anty Burnett and swim team captain and New Zealand team member for Trans Tasman William Campbell remove the covers from the newly repaired pool at Christchurch Boys’ High. Photo: Jessica Schaap

THE Christchurch Boys’ High school pool has been out of action since the February 2011 earthquake, but is about to open again for term one. The pool structure was cracked and pipe work and external paving were badly damaged; acting principal Paul McWilliam said the school was glad to have it back. “It means a lot of the water-based school activities can start again and we don’t have

to work to find alternative venues,” he said. Christchurch Boys High School is one of 23 school pools the Ministry is repairing in greater Christchurch following the earthquakes and is one of the biggest to be repaired at 35 metres long and 12 metres wide. Of the 23 repair jobs, 17 are now complete, two are due to be completed by mid-February and the four remaining by the end of May.

A LARGE-SCALE black-and-white photographic exhibition in the Re:Start mall takes an exuberant and light-hearted look at the way Cantabrians enjoy the summer months in Christchurch. The exhibition, drawn from the Place in Time archive (2000-2012) has been specially curated for Art Beat, and uses the Re:Start container mall on Cashel Street as an open-air gallery. A selection of 17 photographic images, entitled Summer in the City, have been placed on the exterior walls of the container shops, with each photograph handpicked to correspond with and reflect the shop inside each container. University of Canterbury Art History lecturer and exhibition curator Dr Barbara Garrie said the photographic exhibition would function within the structure of the retail environment as opposed to something that sat alongside it. “The images of Christchurch people have been chosen to reflect the heart of our city, bringing the enduring voices and laughter of these people

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BRASS band lovers will be delighted to know that the 60-piece Royal New Zealand Air Force Band will be back to perform at Wigram later this month. The concert will be the last of the band’s South Island tour for 2013, which also includes performances in Nelson, Westport and Greymouth. Squadron Leader Graham Hanify, MBE, will conduct the band for the tour, a job he’s well-accustomed to, having previously directed the band for 25 years. Hanify, who plays baritone saxophone for acclaimed quartet Saxcess, said the programme would explore the power and more subtle qualities of a large symphonic band. “Everybody who enjoys fine brass playing will be looking forward to it,” Squadron Leader Hanify said. “We’re working hard to perform as a very tight ensemble on this tour, which takes dedication and hard work during the rehearsal stages. “We’ve given our outstanding musicians solos to play and believe they’ll be a treat for the audience. I hope the trombone section may steal the show with their performance of Tricky Trombones.” The RNZAF Band performed to rapturous applause at concerts last year to celebrate its 75th anniversary, including a spectacular performance amongst the vintage planes at the Air Force Museum, Wigram. Popular classics to be featured in this month’s concert are Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien and John Philip Sousa’s King Cotton March. Memorable performances are anticipated of Chaminade’s Concertino for flute, to be played by Rebecca Steel (former flute with the Philharmonia in London), Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet (with David McGregor, principal clarinet of the National Youth Orchestra) and Ballad for Saxophone in E flat (with Reuben Chin). Vocalist Stephanie Paris will provide support. RNZAF Brass Band •Saturday, February 23, 7pm Air Force Museum, Wigram • Bookings can be made by contacting the venue, phone 343 9532. $20 adults , $18 seniors, $10 students Booking fees will apply.

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Le Race time Fun run: London 2012 Olympian Nick Willis, centre, took children for a fun lap of the Christ’s College track at the Christchurch International Track Meet on February 2. The event attracts the cream of New Zealand track and field talent to compete against international opposition. Willis won the mile running race on the grass track in four minutes, 8.16 seconds. Photo: Gavin James/GJKiwi Photography

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Is any sport clean anymore? CYCLING has now proved itself to have been totally dominated by drug cheats. Every result now is under the microscope with revelations that by far the majority of competitors were on some form of performance enhancing drug. The god of the sport, Lance Armstrong, protested vigorously his innocence for years, saying he was unfairly vilified for the dominant performances he kept turning in. His army of fans stuck with him no matter how compellingly the case against him unfolded. Finally it has all crashed down around him like a pack of cards. With his demise came revelations from many others that they, too, felt compelled to go ‘on the juice’ to be competitive. In the days when the Iron Curtain was in place, the desire to be seen to be the best at Olympic sport drove officials to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure the athletes they were in charge of covered their countries in ‘golden glory’. The result of the long-term damage done to their charges is now legendary and in some cases caused premature death to the competitors. The once gentlemanly sport of cricket is now littered with allegations of match fixing and

bribery. The ‘beautiful game’ of football, or soccer as we know it, has in the past few days been rocked by allegations of a massive global match-fixing racket where millions of dollars have changed hands as match results and events that have occurred on the pitch were predetermined by greedy unscrupulous traders. Thousands of people have become involved in the game by the lure of huge paybacks for their actions. Now investigations are underway across the Tasman – affecting the AFL, NRL and many other codes, after allegations of match fixing, links to organised crime and widespread doping were made in a government report into the nation’s sporting scene, released last week. What has caused this explosion in usage? We have to face the fact that massive amounts of money (which really cannot be justified) are on the table for our high profile sports achievers. Link that to the ridiculous sponsorship dollars that are being offered to these athletes and it adds up to the belief that any option to be the best they can be is fully worth the risk to themselves and their sport.

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New feature: Avondale residents as well as rotary club and canCERN representatives attended the installation of a community noticeboard last week.

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THE first of around 15 new community noticeboards for quake-damaged communities was installed at Avondale Park last week. The initiative is being organised by canCERN with funding provided by the Rotary Club of Christchurch South. The noticeboard includes a locked board, which will be managed by the Avondale Residents Association, another side that anyone can attach information to and a chalkboard

where people can write messages. CanCERN communications manager Brian Parker said the noticeboard, which had been designed and built by a Rotary club member, was the prototype for those that would be installed in other areas and was itself mobile so that when it had served its purpose in its current location it could be moved. “We’ve got a lot of information we’re putting out and about, but there are a lot of elderly and

people who don’t use the internet. Having a noticeboard and putting up-to-date information on it means that for people to be able to connect, this is the place they can do it. “For communities like this and other areas, it’s also a place they can come to, hang around, talk – it’s a gathering place as much as anything. These guys have lost their shops and everything.” Helen Cole of the Avondale Residents

Association predicted it would be well used by the community. “To have such a multi-purpose noticeboard is really something for Christchurch I think.” Rotary club earthquake committee member Graham Fowler could not say when more of the noticeboards would be manufactured and placed but said there was now “nothing to hold us back”.

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THE Inner City East Multicultural Festival has slowly grown and this year’s festival being held next Saturday, February 16, has more entertainment to offer. The event, to be held in Linwood, will include a mix of cultural performances including Japanese drumming, Kenyan dances, flamenco guitar, kapa haka, Hawaiian hula and Morris dancing. There will also be henna application, soap carving and food stalls. The festival has been running since the late 1990s and community development worker Shirley Scarlet said it has got bigger and has

plenty to offer. “I think it plays a part in helping people’s awareness of cultural diversity and allows people a greater understanding of other cultures.” Inner city east community development worker Jenny Smith said the festival provided recognition that New Zealand was a multicultural society. “Some of the ethnic community are left after the earthquakes but people are now coming in for work on the rebuild. We are under a period of change,” she said.

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COMMUNITY pharmacies will now be at liberty to charge lower prescription fees following a decision by the Commerce Commission. An investigation by the commission into claims that clauses in the Community Pharmacy Services Agreement substantially lessen competition in the market has resulted in a DHB variation to the original contracts being signed by pharmacies around the country. The community pharmacy in Linwood had been charging half the $3 prescription fee due to residents of the lower socio-economic area struggling to afford their medication. A new clause in their contract that came into effect July 1, 2012, meant they were unable TO charge their own fee and the $3 prescription fee became compulsory. Prescription fees increased from $3 to $5 on January 1. The pharmacy appealed to the Commerce Commission, which found the compulsory charging of $5 was likely to substantially lessen competition in the community pharmacy market. As a result the Commerce Commission has allowed the pharmacies to keep charging discounted rates. Linwood community pharmacy owners Joe and Anne Tiller said the discounted rates have cost them $50,000 since they opened two years ago. “We used to see people juggling when they were only paying $1.50 and we’re already seeing some people coming in saying we will only get two of the items rather than five, that may be on the prescription, and that’s only paying $3. $5 is a substantial amount of money for people living week to week,” Linwood Community Pharmacy owner Anne Tiller said. Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group

general manger Graeme Smith said the 40 per cent price rise was going to hit those pharmacies in the lower socio-economic areas, which were going to find it most difficult. “It’s unfortunate that some pharmacies are seeing the need to discount prescription fees in the absence of any coherent social policy to help people on a lower income,” Mr Smith said. He would have preferred to see prescription fee increases apply only to those who could afford it. Mr Smith said it wasn’t right that pharmacies subsidised prescriptions and social policy was the role of the government. Even his pharmacy in Rangiora was noticing the struggle, he said. “People will come in with a prescription for say four items and they’ll say I’ll only take two this week and come and get the two that are less urgent next week.” A large number of Linwood Community Pharmacy customers came from beyond the Linwood area because of the lower prescription fees and cheaper over-the-counter products. Customer Maria Xlaran was living in Papanui but travelled to Linwood to collect her prescription. “I’d rather drive here for that difference because I could save $2 for other things.” Ronald Harris found the lower price to be particularly helpful especially when buying numerous prescriptions. “For the guys who are on the benefit it really helps them out a lot cause you go to other places you pay 30 bucks or even more for lowincome guys.” Work and Income and most general practitioners have a flexible funding pool they can access to help patients pay for their prescriptions.

Residents’ groups and associations set to federate MORE than 80 residents’ and neighbourhood associations from Christchurch are being given the opportunity this week to join the Christchurch Federation of Residents’ Groups – a concept that grew out of a regional forum held last year in the city. A working party of residents’ groups from Christchurch voted to form the federation after the forum – which attracted 70 delegates from associations across the city and surrounds – gave a mandate to investigate options for an umbrella group to support local community governance organisations. The idea for a federation was presented to the April 2012 forum by Jim Candiliotis, president of the Federation of Wellington Progressive and Residents’ Associations. Over half of the active residents’ groups in Christchurch were present and delegates voted unanimously to investigate the establishment of a federation. As a result of the forum a working party was formed by board members of groups from St Albans, Beckenham, Ferrymead, Sumner, Central Riccarton and the Central Business District. The working party has been supported by the Draco Foundation – a national trust that provides support to the community governance sector – and includes representatives of the wider NGO and disability sectors in the region. Spokesperson for the group Peter Tuffley said the federation would not represent residents’

groups, or fight battles on their behalf. Rather, it would provide an opportunity to network, share information and resources and assist members to grow their organisations. The federation would not replicate the work of existing organisations supporting community via residents’ associations. Instead it would enhance and complement them through providing education and opportunities to community groups, Mr Tuffley said. He said the core business of the federation should be to boost communication and networking amongst the residents’ associations in Christchurch; support member groups with training, resources, advice and information; be an additional channel for information between the community governance sector (residents’ groups) and central government, local government and commerce; undertake research and publish the results; provide informed commentary to media where prudent; and promote the role of residents’ groups to the wider public.

Next steps Residents’ groups will be receiving information in the mail this week telling them how they can join the federation and contribute to the network, and what support and resources they are able to access. Anyone interested in learning more about the federation can visit their website www.residents.org.nz/chch.html.

Freebies: Anthony Streeter displays the type of items that could be offered.

Southshore residents will be putting free stuff on their lawns for anyone to grab this Saturday. The Rocking Horse Rummage event was organised by the Southshore Residents Association. Southshore Recovery coordinator Lisa Clarke said she expected books, toys, clothes, furniture and maybe

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kitchenware to be on display. “We thought with a lot of people moving out, due to being red-zoned, it would be a great opportunity to have a clear out whilst giving to others. Often, individual residents put stuff out on the street to give away anyway, so we decided to get the whole street involved.”

Pressure main being installed in New Brighton INSTALLATION of part of the new pressure wastewater line (pressure main 128) has begun in New Brighton this week. There are two work sites, one near Dick Taylor Drive, the other by Sandy Avenue. As a result there will be increased noise, dust and vibration levels associated with this work, and trucks, diggers and a large drilling machine will be used. There will be open trenches for the entry and exit pits, and for their safety residents and passers-by are advised to observe the security fences around the construction area. The works will have no planned impact on current power, telecommunication, wastewater, water or gas services. However, the network is still fragile so people are advised to be prepared in case there is an unexpected cut to services. The majority of the works will take place between 7am and 6pm, Monday to Saturday. There will be some night work needed as part of the project in order to minimise impact on traffic when the pipe is moved into place near intersections. Nearby residents will be notified before night works starts. A section of Dick Taylor Drive will be closed while this work takes place. During working hours (7am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday) there will be a manual stop/go

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Sparks fly at classic concert AN estimated 60,000 people enjoyed a night of music and fireworks in North Hagley Park on the evening of Waitangi Day. The annual ASB Classical Sparks concert was due to be held on February 5 but rain forced the show to be held the following day under much clearer skies. Emceed by Mark Hadlow and conducted by Kenneth Young, the concert showcased the 65-piece Christchurch Symphony Orchestra with the New Zealand Army Band and numerous soloists. The free event was part of the Garden City SummerTimes festival. Photographer Neil Macbeth captured some of the action.

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DOROTHY Wilson, who was born in 1913, reached 100 years of age on February 5 and celebrated her milestone birthday with friends and family at Bethesda House, Bishopdale. Her son Robert Wilson says she has lived to 100 because of her “determination”. Both her father’s side of the family and her mother’s side of the family “lived well into their 90s”. “Her mother got to 99 so she wanted to make it to 100 to get the Queen’s Medal,” he said. Her determination saw her flying to Australia in her 70s with her friends. “She said you don’t have to come, I’m coming to you,” Robert, who lives in Australia, said. Mrs Wilson enjoyed travelling and visited Norfolk Island, several centres within New Zealand, plus Australia to visit Robert and family after they moved from Christchurch in 1988. Robert said she had a close circle of friends but is the only one out of her circle of friends to still be around, describing her as the “last man standing”. Mrs Wilson is the eldest of her four siblings and only she and her brother Douglas, who she communicates with every day, remain. Mrs Wilson attributes her longevity to her country life, having grown up in Fairlie, and also no pressures, good food, good living and fitness. Her favourite food is stir-fry; she also likes fruit, does not like a lot of sugar or meat, has never smoked and keeps walking. She could not say what the most interesting times of her life were and had lived through the Great Depression, epidemics and WWII. “My whole life has been interesting,” she said. She attended Fairlie primary and high school and then travelled by train each day to Timaru Technical College for two years, where she completed a technical course. She has always kept herself active and when she was six years old she achieved a certificate for swimming one mile in the Fairlie pool. She played tennis in summer and enjoyed basketball and ice skating in winter.

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Crown and glory: Dorothy Wilson, 100, displays her congratulatory birthday card from the Photo: Jessica Schaap

Continued on page 2 Queen while wearing a crown her granddaughter gave her.

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Continued from page 1 Dorothy had many different jobs in her working life including working in her father’s business of Barwood Motors, as a parlour maid, in a clerical position, and as a cook, hairdresser and station mistress. She also worked at various manufacturers around Christchurch.

Dorothy met her husband Clarence when she was working for the railways and they married on June 13, 1941. Her only child, Robert, was born just over two years later and when he married he had two daughters – Fiona and Vivien. Fiona married Michael and their daughter Kirsten is Dorothy’s only great-grandchild. On Christmas Eve 1985 Dorothy’s husband died. Soon after, when she was in her 70s, she developed angina and had several small heart attacks, but was able to stay in her home for the next 20 years with the help of friends and neighbours. “She went through a period of ill health but she was strong and determined that she would stay at her home. Dad had a garden and she wanted to keep the garden going in his memory,” Robert said. Dorothy involved herself with many social activities such as indoor bowling and she enjoyed reading, completing some challenging jigsaws, knitting and rug making and was a keen follower of netball and rugby. “Dorothy’s idea of a perfect day out was with her family for a drive in the car, picnic and a swim or sail to a nice bay, Robert said. “She

enjoyed being amongst family and friends. She wasn’t one to eat out or go to the movies, but in later years when she began to slow down, around the age of 90, she did enjoy going out to our favourite Thai restaurant with her family. A visit to a café for a cuppa became more frequent, even though she decided it was a waste of money as she then had to go on a diet to lose the excess weight.” In 2005, Dorothy decided at 92 years of age it was time to move into Bethesda Rest Home when things around home became more difficult and while she was still in good health to enjoy her time there. Robert said she fitted in well and made many friends. “She’s just an outgoing person. She’s made a lot of acquaintances in here,” he said. Dorothy has received congratulatory messages from the Queen, the Governor General, Sir Jerry Mateparae, the Prime Minister, John Key, Minister of Internal Affairs, Chris Tremain, local Member of Parliament Gerry Brownlee and the Minister for Senior Citizens, Jo Goodhew, for reaching her milestone. Robert Wilson, who is 69, said he “definitely” aimed to live to 100 like his mother.

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Christchurch boys in the swim again THE Christchurch Boys’ High school pool has been out of action since the February 2011 earthquake, but is about to open again for term one. The pool structure was cracked and pipe work and external paving were badly damaged. Acting principal Paul McWilliam said the school was glad to have it back. “It means a lot of the water-based school activities can start again and we don’t have to work to find

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A NEW library and e-learning centre at St Margaret’s College, said to be a first for Christchurch, was officially opened last Thursday. E-learning managers Caroline March and Aimie Sibson said the new centre embraced reading and older styles of learning but also enhancing learning with digital technologies and, as the library was operating out of portacoms previously, would allow the school to operate more efficiently. E-learning co-manager Caroline March said with these technologies students can learn “anytime, anyplace”. All year 9 students are expected to come to school with laptops, which proved useful when St Margaret’s closed for three weeks after the earthquake as all learning was done online. “They are learning how to navigate a whole digital world” and it was “empowering the students to do it themselves”, Ms March said. The new library and e-learning centre also includes a seminar room, which is also a space where the students’ parents can be taught how to use technologies. The room also

has video conferencing capabilities, allowing the school to communicate with people overseas. “Having the capacity to have that video conferencing…it actually does make them global citizens,” she said. Despite this, the school still fosters an environment of reading and making it an environment of social interactions, too. Christchurch’s Anglican Bishop Victoria Matthews blessed the e-learning centre last week and said she liked the natural light and the glass window. “I think it’s fabulous. It’s not just books, it’s good for the human spirit so they can be all they want to be.” St Margaret’s College principal Gillian Simpson said the school needed the space as St Margaret’s lost 80 per cent of buildings gradually in the 2010/2011 Christchurch earthquakes. “It is a unique centre and we are developing it still. Being able to learn anytime, anywhere, linking the girls with learning globally and we can even offer classes to other schools,” she said.

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