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ISSUE 935 Friday 24th April 2020
THINK ABOUT IT If you were informed that there was a killer on the streets, randomly targe ng innocent people…… But you didn’t know where they were, you couldn’t see them from your window, but you knew they were there. Would you nip out? Would you let your kids out the front door? Do you see where I’m going with this?
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The team at Annabel's Educare, Darfield have been thinking about how they are going to commemorate ANZAC Day this year. “This is our call to all children in New Zealand before ANZAC Day, Saturday April 25th,” said a teacher from Annabel’s Educare. “This is a day where we remember all the people before us who helped form New Zealand into the country it is today,” they commented. “To support this day we are calling all kiwi children to get creative. We would love to see you use your imagination and creative skills to make something that represents New Zealand, then hang it on your gate for all to see,” they added. “This could be a poppy, a New Zealand flag, a traditional wreath, or a kiwi itself. Come on kiwi kids, lets get behind ANZAC Day and start getting creative.”
Red poppies are traditionally worn on and around Anzac Day as a mark of respect to those who died while serving their country. The poppy has its origins in the early twentieth century, when red, or Flanders’ poppies bloomed over the graves of soldiers in France and Belgium.
An example of recently made wreaths made in honour of those who served their country.
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Last week I was delighted that our Council were able to sign off its annual plan consultation document. It was necessary for us to delay our consultation schedule so that we could offer you a plan that addressed the financial hardships many of our businesses and households are facing due to COVID -19. The revised plan proposes rating options including a rates freeze, or an increase between 0% and 3.5% depending on savings that can be identified. I encourage you all to offer feedback on our plan which you can find at www.selwyn.govt.nz/annualplan20 We continue to have the welfare and safety of our community at the heart of everything we do and our service desk remains hard at work responding to your enquiries and calls for assistance. At the same time we are proactively reaching out to our vulnerable groups. Our library staff contacted over 1,500 senior citizen library members offering access to online resources and even one-to-one tuition to help with digital access. Our foodbanks have been hard at work with volunteers delivering much needed provisions to those in most need. Across the district our dedicated network of Community Response Teams have delivered valuable information leaflets to the mail boxes of more than 2,000 vulnerable households. We now have our eyes on the future and are working to establish what the move to Level 3 will look like. At the same time we are developing a plan with our community to restore Selwyn’s economic strength whilst maintaining the welfare support for suffering businesses and households. In Level 3 some of our businesses will be able to open again, but I am conscious that the social restrictions that remain in place still have a considerable impact on our lives. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger, but we cannot afford to jeopardise our amazing efforts so far; so I urge you all to listen to the advice and stay safe.
Please stay safe, listen to the advice and be kind. Sam Broughton -Mayor of Selwyn.
Anzac Day Under Alert Level 4 The Government has announced that New Zealand will stay at Alert Level 4 until 11.59pm on Monday, April 27th, when we will transition to Alert Level 3. This means that on Tuesday, April 28th many businesses in sectors such as construction will be able to resume operation, albeit with new ways of working to ensure physical distancing is maintained, surfaces and tools are disinfected regularly and records are kept of people’s movements to facilitate contact tracing. Retail businesses and cafes and restaurants will only be able to open if they can take orders online, or over the phone, and can deliver these in a contactless way. Businesses which provide services involving close personal contact such as hairdressing, personal training and beauty therapy will not be able to re-open during Alert Level 3, other than to sell products remotely. The Government has indicated that prior to the change to Alert Level 3, businesses are allowed to make preparations to get ready to re-open, including re-entering premises to receive stock if necessary. The message from the Government is that people that can work from home, should continue to do so and that students should continue to learn from home, wherever possible. Schools will re-open from April 29th to supervise those children up to Year 10 level who are not able to remain at home because parents need to go back to work. This poses challenges for schools as they will need to continue delivering their online learning programme while having some staff on site to supervise those children whose parents need to send them. Schools will have been in contact with parents over the last few days so they could establish how many students will need supervision during Alert Level 3. For many people, Alert Level 3 will be much the same as Alert Level 4. If you are not at work, school, exercising or getting essentials, then the advice is to remain at home. The Government has indicated that if you need to, you can expand your bubble a small amount to bring in close family, isolated people, or caregivers. Good hygiene practices will continue to remain important. I know many people will be sad about not having the opportunity to attend Anzac Day services this year to honour all our returned servicemen and women and those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our safety and security. The RSA has proposed that this year instead of attending a dawn service, all New Zealanders may like to go down to their gates to stand and observe one minute’s silence at 6am. There will also be some online services held and details of these are being finalised at the time of writing. This Anzac weekend we can all still reflect on the contribution of those who went before us and perhaps our current restrictions may allow us to gain a different perspective on the adversity they faced.
Amy Adams - MP Selwyn.
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With Monday’s announcement that we will remain in Alert Level 4 un l 11.59 pm Monday, April 27th New Zealanders can rest assured that Fire and Emergency will con nue to be here for communi es. Fire sta ons will remain restricted to cri cal personnel and firefighters will be wearing PPE when they turn up to a call where pa ents are showing symptoms of COVID-19, We ask that you con nue to hold off those nonessen al outdoor fires so that our firefighters don’t need to leave their bubbles unnecessarily. Burning rubbish and garden waste is not essen al right now. Please be pa ent and wait un l it is safe. While New Zealanders are asked to stay home and in
Would like to let the community know that they are available to deliver groceries to those people who are in the vulnerable group and have no support systems to help collect and deliver their groceries. They can be contacted directly by phoning either:
Neale Todd on 027 623 7746 Or Graeme Roberts on 027 807 2177
their bubbles it’s also important to stay fire safe. Check your smoke alarms are working and make sure your bubble has an escape plan. Make sure your work sta ons aren’t overloading power plugs - one appliance per socket - and don’t leave cooking una(ended. If you need to walk away from your cooking for any reason, make sure you switch off the stove. Thank you to all our firefighters, emergency services and essen al workers for your con nued service during these unprecedented mes. Thank you also New Zealand for doing your bit to keep us all safe. We are all in this together!
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SWITCH OFF BEFORE YOU WALK Unattended cooking is the biggest cause of house fires in New Zealand - a fire risk that is higher than ever under the COVID-19 lockdown. If you need to leave the room, even for a minute, turn the stove off.
If you do need to call 111 for a fire, we will ask you whether anyone at the address is self-isolating or has a confirmed case of COVID-19. Where this is the case, we already have necessary measures in place to ensure everyone’s safety including protective clothing, gloves, masks, safety glasses and masks. "Our top priority is to keep your people and our people safe. Together we can prevent both the spread of COVIDCOVID-19 and the oftenoften-devastating consequences of household fires!"
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When it looked like Level 4 was going to be called off on Monday, I went into panic mode and got stuck into a couple of things on my very long list of ‘things-to-do-during-lockdown’. A list, I hasten to add, that I’d steadfastly avoided looking at for the duration. It contained a number of things constantly required, and constantly avoided, by this home owner. Things like sorting out the wardrobe, cleaning the car, clearing out the fridge, general housework, trimming up a few trees, weeding all the gardens, throwing out rubbish from my office and decluttering the garage. So far I’ve done sod-all! I’ve baked, cooked numerous meals, walked the dog and eaten (and drunk) an awful lot! A prolific fruiting apple tree on the property endured a severe
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cut back and the resultant produce was then required to be used in some way. I took the easy way out by offering a large quantity to those walking by (contactless of course - thanks to Facebook) and cooked up the balance (albeit a small one) - wasting nothing! I’ve been quite happy in my bubble - no need to do anything strenuous on the housework front, because I’ve worked out I only do that when I’m expecting visitors and hey there’s none of those going to cross the threshold. Social media and video calling has enabled me to keep up with friends and family and while I probably wouldn’t want the current situation to continue ad infinitum, for now it’s been OK. I will be glad to have things relaxed from their Level 4 position, but I’m not
Bags of apples - each containing a bucket full - nine in eventual total were collected by walkers after listing them on Facebook. I was so glad they didn’t go to waste!
entirely convinced that Level 3 will be a great idea - but we at least have a relatively short, proposed time frame for this stage. What happens then? Seriously I don’t think anyone can accurately predict. It’s all new territory - the strangest of times and with nothing having gone before in the modern age to give any indication. I’m really hopeful that local businesses will all pull through, but that will only happen with local support - and lots of it. Malvern News looks forward to returning to its hardcopy edition delivered to your mailbox - but again this will depend on how many advertisers get involved. But for now this week’s ‘paper’ will be strictly online (although you can download and print it off, if you prefer). The News team is working to co-ordinate all the items needed to print and deliver your papers; obviously the army of deliverers, added to that paper supplies, copier service technicians, couriers, staff and premises ready to go. The ongoing costs while out of production continue, not just for us - but for all small businesses - here’s hoping we can do the Phoenix thing and all rise from the ashes! Jan Crossley CoCo-owner - editor Malvern & Rolleston News
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A sink full of slices and a pile of peel and cores as I get to grips with the outstanding harvest from my, now much reduced in size, apple tree!
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♦ Steak Burger
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Porterhouse Steak, Onion, Cheese, Tomato or Barbecue Sauce, Lettuce, Tomato, Beetroot & Mayo
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Meat Pattie, Bacon, Mushroom, Pineapple, Egg, Cheese, Onion, Lettuce, Beetroot, Tomato, Mayo & Tomato Sauce
♦ Chicken Fillet Burger
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Chicken Fillet (Crumbed) with Satay, Sweet & Sour, Chilli or Tomato Sauce and Cheese, Onion, Lettuce, Beetroot, Tomato & Mayo
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Whiting Fish Fillet, Tartare Sauce, Cheese, Onion, Lettuce, Beetroot, Tomato & Mayo
♦ Bacon & Egg Burger
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Takeaway Meals ♦ Curry - Butter Chicken & Rice
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♦ Beef Schnitzel with Chips or Mashed Potato, Peas & Gravy
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DARFIELD Fat Beagle Salad
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Daily Fresh Baking
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Flavour of the day. Gluten Free, Dairy Free & Vegetarian Options One serve Two serve Four serves
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Stuffed Potato
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Frittata
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The Malvern Hub ‘Friendly Caller’ phone list is growing. If you, or anyone you know, is isolated, struggling, or just needs a friendly voice, let us know and the Hub can add those names to the list. Darfield Foodbank is s ll opera ng and during these hard mes the Hub s ll want to help. If there is a genuine need for someone in the Malvern community requiring access to this contact:
Malvern Hub Ph: 9am - 4pm - 021 1229317 Email: malvernhub@gmail.com facebook.com/ malverncommunityhub
We will operate as normal as possible during the Level 4 Alert Stage!
Each day we will be receiving fresh milk & bread. PLEASE SHOP NORMALLY, AND BE KIND! A few ground rules when shopping... • If unwell, don’t come shopping • Use the hand sanitiser when entering the Store. • Please send one person from your family for the shopping. No children. • Make a list so you aren’t in the store very long • Maintain your safe distance from each other. • Email and phone orders are for the elderly and unwell
Any questions, please contact the store! PHONE: 03 318 8703
Look out for each other, be kind & stay safe, we are in this together!
Message from the Darfield Pharmacy Please be patient... We are doing our best to respond to the challenges of providing services during the pandemic!
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THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC AND STOCKPILE MEDICATIONS: If you need Prescription medications your doctor will fax, or email, the Pharmacy. You then need to call the Pharmacy on 03 3188 605 to organise a time to pick up your medication.
REPEAT MEDICATIONS: Call the pharmacy on 03 3188 605 to organise repeats, or alternatively text the Pharmacy on their dedicated Pandemic Repeat Line 027 372 8467 with your First and Last name, date of birth, and a list of repeats you are needing. All repeats should be ready the next business day. If you need them more urgently call the land line. If you need other essential pharmacy items, also call the Pharmacy prior, so they can be got ready for you. If you cannot collect your medications for any reason contact us on 03 3188 605 so we can organise a pandemic volunteer to deliver these to you.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE PICKING UP PRESCRIPTIONS: Currently we are running a closed-door Pharmacy where only staff will be allowed inside the premises. A staff member will be available at all times at the door to assist you. Please remember if you are waiting to be helped, ensure you are standing at least two metres apart from others. Payment by PayWave is preferred, or correct change if cash. Other forms of payment are available such as direct credit.
STAY SAFE – WE WILL GET THROUGH TOGETHER: All usual services are generally available, if unsure customers should ring to check beforehand. Staff are happy to act as Personal Shoppers and bring products to the door for people. Otherwise business as usual. - Yours in health, Aaron and the Staff at Darfield Pharmacy.
OPENING HOURS: Mon - Fri: 8.30am - 5.30pm, with 2 closures each day to rest frontline staff from 9.30am - 10am & 2pm - 2.30pm each day. Saturday: 9am - 12noon. IF YOU ARE UNWELL AND REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION YOUR GP IS STILL YOUR FIRST CHOICE! HEALTHLINE 0800 358 5453 IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE!
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Selwyn residents are encouraged to be extra vigilant with their kerbside recycling separation, as the sorting of recyclables restarts under Alert Level 3 conditions. Council’s kerbside recycling processing partner EcoCentral Ltd had to temporarily pause operations under the Level 4 lockdown conditions because of the high risk of COVID-19 contamination for staff sorting the recycling, and the closure of overseas recycling facilities. Council Solid Waste Manager Andrew Boyd said recycling processing will return under Alert Level 3, but with some changes to the grades of plastic accepted. “Because of changes in markets and upcoming changes in international regulations, we can now only accept plastic grades 1, 2 and 5. We are no longer able to accept mixed plastics 3, 4, 6 and 7 in kerbside recycling. For tun at ely th es e, now unacceptable plastics, make up only a tiny fraction of our kerbside recycling stream. So, effective immediately, we are asking residents to put plastics
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3, 4, 6 and 7 into the rubbish.” These include: These are typically small • Checking the plastic grades yoghurt containers, sushi and on containers before they go in the bin biscuit trays. Grade 1 plastics are typically • Rinsing or cleaning plastic soft drink, water and juice before it goes in the bin bottles. Grade 2 plastics are • Make sure there are no mostly milk bottles, and plastic bags or soft plastic sometimes household cleaners, wrappers in the your recycling Grade 5 plastics are often used • Look at the products you buy. for margarine, spreads like Try to buy products in 1, 2 honey and jam, and large and 5 plastics and contact companies and ask them yoghurt containers. These grades of plastic have the best to consider alternative onshore recycling prospects packaging. • Consider a no circulars/no within New Zealand. “We can’t stress enough the junk mail sticker on your importance of people continuing letterbox. Junk mail makes up 50% of the mixed paper that to sort their recycling correctly to make sure there is no comes through kerbside contamination in the bins when recycling (obviously the News recycling processing restarts,” doesn’t subscribe to this initiative - as those on Rural Andrew said. “With the collection service deliveries would no longer being fortnightly, there is a receive the paper if they were delay between when you put to do this!) recycling in your bin and when it • Keep an eye on Council reaches the plant, so what we communications around do now will affect the sorting recycling and they will advise plant when it reopens,” he as soon as possible on any added. “There are a number of changes to recycling as they have done throughout the practical actions people can lockdown period. take to help make recycling successful.”
REACHING OUT FOR HELP DURING THE LOCKDOWN… • Lifeline 0800 543 354, free text 4357 • Women’s Refuge 0800 733 843 • Shine - Domestic Abuse Helpline 0508 744 633 • Alcohol & Drug Helpline 0800 787 797 • Samaritans 0200 726 666 • Youthline 0800 376 633 • Suicide Prevention Helpline 0508 828 865 • Depression Helpline 0800 111 757 • Oranga Tamariki 0508 326 459 - Report concern for children’s safety If you’re on the internet, look for the Shielded Site symbol - this is a tool for victims of abuse to ask for help, without fear of it showing up in their browser’s history or an abusive partner ever seeing it.
It can be found on websites of The Warehouse, Countdown, Trade Me, ASB, NZ Post, my own Happy Mum Happy Child, AND MORE!
All Council owned community centres/halls are closed for the foreseeable future and no committee member, volunteer, or paid staff member (including the caretakers and/or cleaners) should enter any of the facilities. As well, no repairs, maintenance, or other work, is to be carried out on any Council owned reserve, or in a Council owned community centre/hall by a committee member, volunteer staff, or contractor, at least for the duration of the lockdown and this may be extended. No grounds’ maintenance work is to be undertaken over lockdown period. The only essential service authorised in reserves is refuse collection, or dealing with any urgent public safety matter e.g. large fallen trees. If a member of the committee, a volunteer, or member of the public is going past a Council owned facility and notices something out of the ordinary that presents a health or safety risk, or issue (e.g. smashed windows), they are asked to notify Council.
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HEAD TO: WWW.SELWYNLIBRARIES.CO.NZ The Arts, Culture and Lifelong Learning (ACLL) team is doing a wonderful job in the community by letting everyone know about their digital resources. Anyone not already a member of Selwyn District Libraries can sign up today and access the hundreds of free resources available for all, online. To become a member, or to dust off an existing membership, update password and start to access the resources - go to: www.selwynlibraries.co.nz/your-libraries/contact-us Some interesting online resources available through Selwyn Libraries are: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online has top quality information from trusted sources. Access thousands of curated articles and magazines, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools and recommended websites. Articles are regularly updated by subject specialists so it’s always the latest, most up-to-date information. Britannica Library is great for everyone; choose the age-appropriate level that works best for both adults and children. Check Britannica Library out for: Complete homework assignments; conducting research; working on a special project; playing games. Simply log in with a library card number and PIN / password and go to https://www.selwynlibraries.co.nz/booksandresources/eresources/ britannica-library Being at home all day brings a whole range of new challenges. Growing professional skills may be one of them. If so, Lynda.com is the video library resource for industry skills and professional development. This resource has thousands of courses and tutorials relevant to the industries Council works in, from art and graphic design, to marketing, photography and video, business skills and more. Something for every lifelong learner! A Lynda.com account can be created by using the library card barcode and PIN at https://www.selwynlibraries.co.nz/booksandresources/ eresources/lynda.com
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‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum's archives, most previously unseen, and all over 100 years old by the me of release. Audio is from the BBC and Imperial War Museum interviews of Bri sh servicemen who fought in the conflict. Peter Jackson’s, grandfather (to whom the film is dedicated) fought in the war the documentary is about. It gained the inspira on for its tle from the line ‘They shall grow not old, as we that are leH grow old’ taken from the 1914 poem ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon. Bri sh Poet Laurence Binyon (1869 – 1943), a(ended Trinity College, Oxford, and published his first war poem in the Times (en tled ‘The Fourth of August’) a week aHer the outbreak of World War I in 1914. ‘For the Fallen’ was specifically composed in honour of the casual es of the Bri sh Expedi onary Force in the opening ac on of the war on the Western Front. The poet wrote the work immediately following the retreat from the Ba(le of Mons. He composed the original poem while siLng on the cliffs in north Cornwall, UK and a stone plaque was erected at the spot in 2001 to commemorate that fact. In 1914 and moved by the opening of what was then called the Great War and the already high number of casual es of the Bri sh Expedi onary Force, Laurence Binyon wrote ‘For the Fallen’, with its ‘Ode of Remembrance’ (the third and fourth, or simply the fourth, stanza of the poem). (This ‘Ode to Remembrance’ below comprises the central three stanzas of the seven-stanza poem ‘For the Fallen’, being preceded, and followed, by two addi onal stanzas. The Ode itself, as used in remembrance services, is more usually only the central stanza of the three shown.)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.
In 1915, despite being too old to enlist in the armed forces, Laurence Binyon volunteered at a Bri sh hospital for French soldiers, in France, working briefly as a hospital orderly. He returned in the summer of 1916 and took care of soldiers taken in from the Verdun ba(lefield. He wrote about his experiences in ‘For Dauntless France’ (1918) and his poems, ‘Fetching the Wounded’ and ‘The Distant Guns’, were inspired by his hospital service in France.
Drawing of Laurence Binyon by William Strang, 1901.
Anzac 2020 We normally march on Anzac day Not this year we’re locked away It doesn’t mean that we don’t care That you fought and died for us out there. Do not think we’ll forget this day We’ll think of it another way. Make a paper poppy all Put it on your garden wall. Think of all the wars you’ve fought And the good that you have wrought This is just another battle Do not let and spoil and rattle. Anzac’s still a special day Let us all give thanks and pray That this incursion will be won And the fight will soon be done Poppies all will bloom again Spite the wind and snow and rain. We can’t do it without you Remember we beat the Spanish flu. We will have a poppy appeal When this is over with some real Marching and remembrances Let’s do it at the Armistice. (NOV 11th)
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Anzac Day will take a different photos from the previous year's path this year due to the Anzac Day observances around current situation and while the community and she has everyone remains in level 4 included the reading of The lockdown, due to Covid-19. Ode, the bugle calls for last Anzac Day is a national post and reveille, plus a period remembrance day when all of silence, and a reading of In those who have served and died Flanders' Fields. in wars, conflicts and peace Susan will post this on keeping operat ions are Facebook and in various commemorated. Remembering Community Pages on Friday, the huge contribution those that April 24th at 6 pm for people served have made to their to use on Saturday. country. YouTube details below for Malvern Anglican Church Rev viewing:: Susan Baldwin has put together a short eight minute video using https://youtube/SBWOYNk7xdE
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WE CAN STILL SHOW OUR RESPECT! ANZAC Day will look slightly different this year due to lockdown restric7ons... However, Kiwis will sBll proudly remember those who fought for us in different ways across the country on April 25th. Even though there will be no large gatherings, parades or outdoor services we can sBll show our support by parBcipaBng in online services, proudly wearing our poppies or standing at the end of our driveways as the sun rises to show our respect for those in the past who have protected us, and also the essenBal workers who are protecBng us today.
In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
By: John McCrae.
John McCrae, the author of ‘In Flanders Fields.’ One of the most poignant reminders of World War I is the moving poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’, written by John McCrae, McCrae a Canadian army doctor, following the death of his close f r ie n d an d c om p at r iot Lieutenant Alexis Helmer. Helmer Alexis was killed on May, 2nd 1915 when a shell exploded during the second German gas attack. In the absence of a chaplain, John conducted the funeral service for his friend himself. Grief and the trauma of war inspired his poem. At the time, Major McCrae was working in a field dressing station on the road between Ypres and Boezinge. While there, he was mainly involved in treating victims of the German gas attacks. Soon after he wrote the poem, he was transferred, as Chief of Medical Services, to a Canadian field hospital in France, where the wounded
from the battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Arras, and Passchendaele were treated. John discarded the sheet of paper on which he had written the poem. It might never have been published, but for a fellow officer who found John’s notes and sent them to a number of London magazines. The poem first appeared in the magazine Punch and immediately touched the hearts of the British people. In the summer of 1917, John McCrae suffered attacks of asthma and bronchitis, almost certainly as a consequence of inhaling chlorine gas during the Second Battle of Ypres. On January, 23rd, 1918, John fell ill with pneumonia and was admitted to hospital. He died five days later at forty six years of age. He is buried in Wimereux, north of Boulogne (France).
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Selwyn District Council Chief Executive David Ward has been reappointed to the position for a further three-year term. The appointment was confirmed by the Council on Wednesday, April 15th after a three-month independent recruitment process, which saw more than seventy candidates apply for the role, from New Zealand and overseas. Selwyn Mayor Sam Broughton said the Council was impressed with the quality of candidates putting themselves forward for the position and thanked them for applying. “At the conclusion of the process we are pleased to announce the best person for the next three years of Selwyn District Council has been appointed. David has successfully guided our organisation through a period of unprecedented change and
growth over the past seven delivering a wide range of years and we look forward to projects for the Selwyn continuing in that spirit,” he community,” David commented. said. “The Council will have a key role “We have confidence in David to play in the District’s recovery and like the continuity that this over the coming months and I’m appointment brings. Especially pleased we’re in a very sound as we move into a period of position to lead and support uncertainty with the district that process,” he added. facing a long-term process of The recruitment was managed community and economic b y i n d e p e n d e n t f i r m recovery from the impacts of Brannigans. Covid-19 which will require the Under the Local Government Council to work and act in new Act, councils must appoint a ways,” he added. chief executive for up to five David has volunteered a 15% years, with the option to extend pay cut for the next twelve that contract for a further two months as the District’s years. Once this period has recover y progr amm e is ended the position must be reformulated and implemented. advertised. David said he was delighted to David was appointed in 2013. be reappointed and thanks the His current contract was Council for showing faith in his extended in 2017, and expires leadership. “I am looking at the end of June. The new forward to maintaining the contract concludes on June, strong momentum of the last 30th, 2023. few years, as we look ahead to
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effects such as reducing habitat for native freshwater fish, sediment in our waterbodies has potential economic effects as well. Marine farms for mussels, oysters and salmon rely on particular levels of water quality and clarity for product growth and health. Sediment runoff from coastal forestry works, farm tracks or building site excavations have the potential to reduce coastal water quality for adjoining marine farm activities. Nutrients carried in the sediment can also impact on the ability to harvest product
from marine farms. Further inland, subdivision con s tr u ction , f ar m in g development, forestry activities, or any earthworks where sediment may run off into a stream or river, can have local economic effects. This can include sediment build up in farm irrigation pipes creating inefficiencies and additional maint enan ce issues for irrigation takes.
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soils will always generate sediment laden water. However, our desire to develop our land to make a better more productive environment means that the human contribution to sediment in our waterbodies is significantly more than naturally occurs. Councils manage this issue through the need for resource consents on large scale earthworks where details about sediment control can be planned for, and monitored through consent conditions. Any non-compliances can be accordingly remedied. Silt fences, settlement areas, requirements to re-grass exposed soils, and simply
laden water goes during construction, can have a massive impact in reducing effects. While the requirements to manage sediment during construction can seem over the top, the reasons for doing so are both environmental and economic in nature. While the benefits for the environment of good sediment management are obvious, the economic benefits to surrounding water users may not be so clear. Good sediment practices can avoid economic costs down stream and therefore are worth investing in.
About twelve years ago the New Zealand Conservation Trust (NZCT) and the Canterbury Environmental Trust (CET) established a Memorandum-ofUnderstanding (MOU) between them. The MOU was a joint effort to remove introduced predators from within the Craigieburn Forest Park as part of a proposal to establish a kiwi -breeding centre at the Park. Unfortunately, the breeding programme never eventuated due to various critical factors. The NZCT had raised funds to purchase predator traps and
the CET offered to position the traps and to undertake checking them and recording the kills. Over the last twelve years, both the CET and NZCT volunteer members have been regularly (every three - four weeks) checking the traps and recording the outcomes. Unfortunately - as time has progressed it has become more difficult to find volunteers to check the traps as most have previously travelled up from Christchurch and there is a cost of time and travel involved in the process. The NZCT has decided to reduce its involvement in the trap-checking process and some of the volunteers are being physically and age-wise challenged - so much so that we have had to investigate an alternative checking system to future-proof the predator trapping programme within the Cr aigiebur n ar ea. Th is continuation will enable the implementation of the 2050 Predator-Free programme the Government is hoping to achieve. A few weeks before lockdown, a meeting was held at Castle Hill Village to discuss the options for a long-term
solution to the Craigieburn trapping programme. The sixteen people who attended decided to establish the ‘Craigieburn Trapping Alliance’ (CTA) which will comprise both the NZCT and CET personnel, plus Castle Hill Village residents and any other interested volunteers from nearby communities. A s allow ed u n der it s constitution, the Alliance will become a sub-committee of the CET. This means that any finances can be channelled through an existing financial system. An Alliance management committee will be formed whose task will be to determine how many more traps will be required to cover extra trails throughout the Forest Park. Once determined, funds will be sought to purchase the trap components. They will be constructed by local volunteers. Once the CTA is fully functional, we are confident that we will save the lives of many more of our native birds, insects and reptiles.
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An example of the traps Predator Free Kirwee are using for their trapping. Predator Free Kirwee was Canterbury Plains and into initially set up by Kelvin Sewell Christchurch City,” she added. who was already working with “Unfortunately the collaboration keen local, environmentalist required to get local and Rosalie Snoyink trapping in the regional councils, DOC and the Lake Pearson area to increase various trapping groups to work the survival of the Crested together on a plan, can be Grebe. difficult and requires passion, Kelvin and his sister-in-law, the plus a lot of volunteer hours,” late Sharon Kellock set up the Nicci said. local group and Kelvin was “I first became interested when I responsible for the building of, had a ferret drag a rabbit and funding for, traps for the across our lawn one morning community. and so I purchased some DOC At the same time close to 200 mechanisms and Geoff my Kirwee, Nicci Dillon began a husband built them for me,” she trapping programme on her said. Ecan Waimakariri Reserve “Kelvin helped me out initially Leasehold farm. and then he asked me to help “I have a long held vision that get some funding for the Group the area that runs along the with the aim of dispensing more Waimakariri River could be a traps in the area. I applied to natural predator free corridor,” the Selwyn Council Sustainability Nicci explained. “The area could fund and was successful,” Nicci hold native plantings to commented. encourage the re-population of “We have mainly Victor Rat traps native birds across the in the community, but also some
DOC 150 / 200 on farms and small holdings. The DOC traps target weasels, stoats, ferrets and hedgehogs, while the Victor Traps, should eliminate just rats, although small hedgehogs and weasels have been known to be caught also,” she concluded.
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The lockdown has provided breathing space for nature. Listening to the bellbirds, fantails and silvereyes singing in our garden, it seems they are enjoying the peace and quiet of the last month. It’s not all good though, as the lockdown has also provided breathing space for predators. Stoats, ferrets, rats, possums and wild cats kill and threaten native bird, insect and lizard species. Other wild animals such as deer, pigs, wallabies and Tahr graze on endangered native plant species. It is to be hoped that the thousands of N ew Zealanders involved in predator
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www.notornis.osnz.org.nz The Lake Pearson/Moana Rua Wildlife Refuge has maintained a small, stable population of Crested Grebes since counting began in 1972. The website New Zealand Birds’ Online describes the crested grebe as a, ‘majestic and distinctive diving bird that is usually seen on the southern lakes of New Zealand. It has a slender neck, sharp black bill and head with a distinctive black double crest and bright chestnut and black cheek frills, which it uses in its complex and bizarre mating displays. It is unusual for the way it carries its young on its back when swimming’. Stoats, dubbed public enemy number one by the Department of Conservation, are known as tiny terminators; perfect killing machines. They are clever, careful and lethally equipped with razor-sharp teeth, sight, smell and hearing. Stoats can swim, so the floating nest of the Crested Grebe is no defence. A stoat can wipe out eggs, chicks and attack the incubating adult in one swoop. They kill more than they need for food and store the rest in their den for later. A female stoat can have up to twelve young at a time, but more usually has around four to six. Young females are impregnated before they leave the nest, so every female stoat can start a new population. In 2001 stoat traps were placed around known Grebe nesting sites at Lake Pearson/Moana Rua and have been checked regularly by volunteers during the breeding season over the last twenty years. During that time at least 320 stoats have been trapped at Lake Pearson. Around 2008, with funding from the Coleridge Habitat Enhancement Trust stoat traps were placed at Lakes Selfe, Evelyn and Georgina, again to protect Crested Grebe habitats. The work at all these lakes will continue when we get the all clear to go!
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AGM Cricket has a long and rich history in the Malvern district and has been administered by a committee made up of members from individual clubs since at least 1902. This committee met to arrange the competition and rules, finances and trophies. During the 20th Century clubs like Hororata, and Annat either folded, or merged with neighbouring clubs. For example South Malvern was formed after WW2 when Coalgate and Glentunnel merged. This dynamic process continues today to the point where Darfield and Greendale have been exchanging players in recent seasons to ensure both teams are competitive in their respective grades. Kirwee, Sheffield, South Malvern and Darfield retain a healthy junior component to their clubs with only Darfield and Greendale fielding a senior side. The Senior competitions currently have sides from throughout the old Canterbury
Country sub-associations of trophies will be retired and put Hurunui, North Canterbury, on display at Darfield and Malvern, Ellesmere and Banks Greendale Cricket Clubs and any Peninsula and both Junior and remaining cash will be Senior cricket is administered by distributed between the five Canterbury Country cricket from remaining clubs. Two of the its home at Main Power Oval in trophies considered for Rangiora. The competition and retirement include the Malvern rules, finances and trophies are Association Shield which was the responsibility of Canterbury first presented in 1902 and the Country cricket. Westacre Cup (commonly known Club teams travel from as far as as Judd Cup after the Judd Leeston to play at Cheviot and Family who donated it) which in for the first time this season we recent decades has been the saw two teams from Ashburton season showpiece. join the Senior (2nd Grade). Before this dissolution takes The old Malvern Cricket Sub place, the Sub Association invite Association was made obsolete feedback from the cricketing in 2016 when Canterbury public of Malvern. Country changed its constitution, so the individual Any such enquiries should be clubs had direct voting rights, directed to the secretary, instead of the five sub Regan Dalley associations. The time has now regandalley@hotmail.com, come for the Malvern Cricket to be received by 5pm, committee to disband and Friday 8th of May 2020. distribute its assets amongst the remaining Malvern clubs. Shannon McAleer, Once the committee is put to President Malvern Cricket. bed it is proposed that the
Monday 18th May, 7:30pm The venue will depend on COVID-19 alert level at the time of meeting. If we are still to have limited contact this will be held on ZOOM, please email us if you would like to join and we will provide you with the link required.
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LIFESTYLE block maintenance. Weed spraying, mowing, hedge trimming. General farm/ garden maintenance. Animal health. Sheep transport. Phone 027 262 9200.
HEDGEHOG
POINT of lay hyline/shavers pullets for sale. Please phone 021 863 158. WOOD shavings - untreated, clean shavings suitable for horse stables, calving sheds, chicken houses and rabbit h u t ch es . A vailable in 70L bags, 1m 3 bales (compressed) and bulk delivery. Phone 03 344 1676 for more details.
AUTOMOTIVE
LIFESTYLE BLOCK
HEDGE TRIMMING
TREE TOPPING HEDGE & SHELTER BELT CUTTING STUMP GRINDING TREE REMOVAL
Retrofit Double glazing Frameless showers Repairs Mirrors Splashbacks Pet doors and more
Phone Craig for a booking
0800 SNIP IT 027 222 1632
WINDOW REPAIRS
Locally owned and operated
03 318 3003
www.hunterglass.co.nz
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SCRAP METAL SCRAPMETAL - cash paid for all types of metal farm machinery, old cars etc. Please phone Wayne 027 749 9736 or 03 323 6610 (Licensed Dealer).
TRADES
• 25 years experience Phone David Barnhill • Local qualified builder 027 618 2345 • All types of work or undertaken including additions, a/h 317 9144 alterations, new houses, sheds etc
WANTED
AMMUNITION and reloading equipment. Powder projectiles, presses etc. Any calibre rifle / shotgun. Anything hunting related. Cash buyer. Contact Rob 03 342 5885. DEAD, DEAD damaged or derelict cars, tru cks, vans & 4WD’s, including motorbikes. Cash paid. Please phone 03 318 0650.
TRADES
TRADES
LOGFIRE INSTALLATIONS Showerdomes Tiling Adrian’s Building Services (03) 324-3125 Locally based, NZ Home HeaBng Installer 10+ years
Licenced Builder
Phil Marsh Ph 318 4131 Mob 027 357 3696
WINDOW CLEANING WINDOW CLEANING SERVICES
■ New Builds ■ Extensions
Andrew Love
Contract Window Cleaning
■ Renovations ■
Kitchen & Bathrooms
Commercial Residen al Free Quotes E: torque_roll@hotmail.com
M: 021 818 816 WINDOW REPAIRS SHELLEY’S Glass and Glazing. Got a broken glass window? Insurance work, Pet doors, Mirrors, Retro Refits, Single/ Double glazing, Splashbacks, Fire Glass. 32 years in the glass industry. Operates in Oxford, Cust, Darfield, Rolleston, West Melton & Surrounding Areas. Call your local Glazier - Mark on 03 312 3253 or 0272 426 368.
For all your Plumbing Requirements in Canterbury! • New Housing • Spouting • Roof Repairs • House Alterations • Hot Water Cylinders • Installing Solar Hot Water STEVE TE HAARA PHONE: 347 3006 MOBILE: 027 243 6974
All aspects of concreting & all types of finishing DECORATIVE STAMPED COLOURED EXPOSED Dale Mayberry Ph: 021 222 2833
EMAIL: sleightplumbing@gmail.com
WINDOW TINTING
TINTTINT-A-WINDOW Solar Protective films. Fade UV block. Heat Glare control. Privacy. Safety/ Security. Frosted films. Free online quotes. in f o@t in t aw in dow . co. n z w w w . t i n t aw i n d ow . c o . n z Ph 0800 368 468.
Heat pump supply, installation, servicing & maintenance
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General household & business electrical work.
Give Nigel a call now for your no obligation free quote
Ph: 021 387 750
DAIKIN • MITSUBISHI • HITACHI
Your LOCAL & reliable tradesman
COMPUTER
COMPUTER
SuperComputer Sales and Service of new and used machines. Networking, Virus protection, Backup Re-loading and Restoring of Windows. Plain old fashioned Help & Assistance! You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see Mark Jones the tops of counters ... Then gradually 03 318-1956 everything became smaller until it was the 027 210 4242 manageable size it is today. 0800 427 427 - Bizarro comic strip
www.supercomputer.co.nz
mark@supercomputer.co.nz
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Daily On Site Sales & Servicing Authorised Service Agent for Most Brands since 1996! • Ovens Machines • Cooktops • Dryers • Washing Machine • Dishwashers Hire from $8 p.w.
• Washing
Reg. Service Technician
Darfield based with over 38 years of local knowledge and experience
Septic Tank Cleaning Jetting Unit for blocked drains Camera Investigations | Port-a-loo hire Office 318 8609 | 0274 338 693 | admin@leechdrainage.co.nz TRADES AUTO & Marine Upholsterer 3967 West Coast Rd, Phone 03 318 7378. Opening Hours: Mon to Fri, 8am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 12pm. www.advancedupholstery.co.nz
david wilkinson registered electrician phone 03 318 1231 fax email
03 318 1235 sales@electricalcontractors.co.nz
po box 26 kirwee
we’ll be there when you need us. guaranteed. on time guaranteed or your first hour is free! conditions apply.
NEW kitchens, wardrobes, laundries or what ever you need! Remodelled or just new doors. Good advice, good price. Ring Lex 03 349 0150 or 027 439 3926. PORTABLE sawmill for all your timber requirements and macrocarpa sales. Please phone Graeme Knowles on 021 613 229. UPHOLSTERER - Recover lounge suites, dining chairs, squabs etc. Free quotes. Based in Weedons. Please phone 03 980 4979.
Selwyn Electrical Ltd Your Local Registered Electrician
ROB KELLOCK 318 1676 or 021 184 2448
021 732 331
House & Roof PrePre-Paint Wash Hydro Drain Cleaning Cleans most surfaces: fences, paths, brick, block, wood, concrete & machinery.
Moss Treating: roofs, footpaths & driveways.
Free Quotes. Ph Mike Richards 03 318 8380 or 021 179 0584
Maintenance Renovations & new builds Pump servicing and installation Water filter installation Water pump hire Supply and installation of septic tank systems • Gas and wood fire installation • IQP in backflow prevention • Teatsprayer servicing • • • • • •
0800 752 400
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DARFIELD BASED
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