Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 17 July 2012
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Illegal fire users on notice Andrew Board Some illegal home fire users have been given a final warning to find a new heat source or face a $300 fine as part of a clamp down by Nelson City Council. Older wood burning fires in the region have been phased out as part of a plan to clean up the city’s air pollution. Many had to be upgraded by a certain date or that
home would lose the right to use one, even if it was still in the home. That date has passed for all homes and the council has started to enforce its bylaw, issuing abatement notices to around a dozen homes, with more to come. The council’s manager of environmental inspection, Stephen Lawrence says the notices give users of illegal fireplaces six weeks to find alternative heating or they
will face a fine of $300. He says the enforcement programme has only just begun but it is likely staff will walk the streets to see if smoke is coming from homes they know do not have a compliant fire. “It’s keeping faith with the people that have done the right thing and the good news is air pollution has dropped significantly in Nelson so that’s a good thing,” he says. The enforcement programme to identify
non compliant fires has been running for a fortnight now and the council checks off those who have had new fires or heat pumps put in their homes. Council staff then use their records to find the homes that haven’t upgraded, make contact with them and talk over the options.
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Moving 150,000 library books
Anna Gully and Sarah Fry from the Elma Turner Library in Nelson prepare to move every single book in the library ahead of its makeover this week. Photo: Andrew Board.
Staff at Nelson’s largest library will be pulling each of its 150,000 books off the shelves for its $30,000 makeover this week. The Elma Turner Library on Halifax St is closed from July 16 until July 22 for the upgrade, which will see new carpet and paint put in and a reshuffle of the library’s layout. Library management have planned the makeover near the beginning of the financial year so they could pull funding from two years to pay for the upgrade. Carpet, paint and furniture were paid for last year while the labour will be from this year’s budget. Circulation team leader Sarah Fry says the “nip and tuck” of the library will mean each of its 150,000 books will need to be taken off shelves, stored and repacked, a mammoth task for the 25 staff that will be working on it each day. “It’s not just moving them but keeping them in order and storing them somewhere. The person unpacking the shelf has to think about how it will be unpacked. It’s a military operation really.”
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