The Ryman Times - Devonport Edition Christmas 2017

DEVONPORT EDITION – CHRISTMAS 17 Nelson and Fran Webster with an original Duder brick that they keep at their house along with original garden pots that were made at the Duder brickworks

Inside this issue: • Suggest a village age name • Construction update • An insight into the Duder family • Meet Robin and Peter

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Ryman Times - Devonport Edition

Ryman Times - Devonport Edition

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A word from Janet and Mark Hello and welcome to the first newsletter for our Devonport village! What a busy time it's been. We have had a very positive response from the local community with well over half of the first stage of independent apartments already sold.

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves. We are the Ryman sales advisors for the Devonport village.

Mark has worked for Ryman for three years at the Edmund Hillary village in Remuera and is a local to the area.

A former pupil of St Leos primary school, he and his wife, Pam have two boys, with one attending at Belmont Intermediate and the other is now working as a landscaper.

Janet has been with Ryman for seven

years in the Napier and Tauranga villages.

She now lives locally and has two daughters and grandchildren in Napier and Tauranga.

We'd love to see you at our sales office, 29 Lake Road, where we have a show kitchen, bathroom and laundry to show you exactly what your apartment would look like. We also have a sales office onsite on Ngataringa Road. Please call us if you would like to make an appointment to come in and join us for a cuppa.

Kind regards,

Janet Coutts Sales Advisor 09 445 0909

Mark Cooper Sales Advisor 09 445 0909

The Duder twins' great-nephews; Nelson Webster, John Duder (far left) and Ross Duder (far right). Nelson's wife, Fran, holds the brick with their daughter Karen watching on

Excavation work causes excitement Descendants of Devonport pioneers Richard and Robert Duder were thrilled to take a tour of the former R & R Brickworks, which is now destined to be Ryman’s 35th retirement village.

Parts of the site at Ngataringa Road in Devonport are being carefully excavated by archaeologists in accordance with Heritage New Zealand requirements.

Charity partner announced In June, Alzheimer’s NZ was announced as Ryman’s charity partner for the year. Ngaire Dixon, chair of Alzheimer’s New Zealand, was delighted with the announcement as dementia and Alzheimers will become more of an issue in the future. There were more than 62,000 New Zealanders with dementia

in 2016, and the this is forecast to grow to 170,212 people by 2050. Ryman villages include 710 dementia beds and demand for care is growing.

Every dollar raised for Alzheimer’s New Zealand at our villages this year will be matched dollar for dollar by Ryman Healthcare.

Sales Office: 29 Lake Road, Devonport • Onsite Sales office: Ngataringa Rd, Devonport Phone: 09 445 0909

This work will enable the recovery of any remnants of the brickworks, which operated between 1875-1936.

Robert and Richard Duder's greatnephews John Duder and his brother Ross were joined by their cousin Nelson Webster, his wife Fran and daughter Karen for a tour of the site.

Before the brickworks were built, the land was used to graze stock. The twin Duder brothers originally leased it to another manufacturer before taking over the enterprise and building new facilities in 1890.

The brickworks ran on and off until 1936 after which they became derelict and were then demolished sometime in the 1950s.

The current excavation is taking place

before the major earthworks for the first two blocks of the village begins.

Charlotte Judge is a Senior Archaeologist from Clough & Associates, which has been commissioned by Ryman to carry out the excavations. Fellow Senior Archaeologist Adina Brown is the Field Supervisor running the project.

She said that so far a foundation section of a structural wall had been revealed, indicated by the compacted charcoal stained soil. The late 19th century roadway leading from Lake Road to the brickworks had also been uncovered, revealing a surface made of broken brick, glazed terracotta pipe and by-products of the brick-making process.

"The team is now in the process of uncovering what appears to be the remnant base of a kiln used for firing bricks," Charlotte said.

One exciting find was a near-complete brick with the distinctive R & R Duder stamp marked on it.

John said: "It's been wonderful to come and see the site today and to hear all the information from Charlotte has been fascinating."

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Ryman Times - Devonport Edition

Ryman Times - Devonport Edition

Devonport meeting a success

Christmas tree cookies Makes approx 10 trees Ingredients: • 2 cups flour • ½ tsp baking soda • 1 tbsp ground ginger • 1 cup (220g) firmly packed soft brown sugar • 150g butter

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1 egg Cookie cutter, one shape varying sizes

Royal icing sugar: • 2 egg whites • 2 cups icing sugar • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180°C. 2. Sift flour, baking soda and ground ginger together in a bowl. Add butter.

3. In a separate bowl beat the egg and sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Mix everything together. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.

5. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and cut out the shapes.

6. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden.

Keep an eye on the smaller cookies so that they don’t burn.

7. Remove from oven and cool on baking rack.

8. Assemble the tree by using a bit of icing sugar between the layers.

Royal icing sugar: Beat egg whites in clean, large bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed until thickened.

Devonport retirees showed how keen they were to hear all about our plans for Ryman Healthcare’s, new village at 7 Ngataringa Road by turning up in force to two information meetings earlier in November.

Nearly 150 people attended the public meetings held at the Spencer on Byron in Takapuna to hear Chief Executive Gordon MacLeod and Group Sales and Community Relations Manager Debbie McClure discuss the plans for Ryman’s 35th village in detail.

Gordon explained what the company was all about and in particular its considerable development scheduled for Auckland in the next few years.

“Over the next four years we will free up 2,500-3,000 homes in the Auckland area as people move into the 2,500-3,000 units and apartments in our villages,” he said.

“The Auckland build rate is currently about 8,000 per year so we’re a significant contributor in creating more housing for Auckland.”

Suggest a village name...

When we name a village, we look to honour local people who have made a real difference.

For example, we have the Bruce McLaren village in Howick, Edmund Hillary village in Remuera, Jean Sandel village in New Plymouth and the Ernest Rutherford village in Nelson.

To suggest a name and reason, please phone Mark or Janet on 09 445 0909 or email Mark at mark.cooper@rymanhealthcare.com or Janet at janet.coutts@rymanhealthcare.com

He said Ryman’s point of difference was the fact that the company designed and built its own villages which it then went on to run.

“We’re all about providing choice for older people and offering them the very best in aged care.

“We build facilities that we will look after for a long time.”

Gordon said recent meetings with local residents had been extremely helpful for getting feedback on aspects of the development. This included preserving findings from the site which used to be the location of the Duder brickworks in the late 1800s.

Debbie explained that Ryman was keen to preserve aspects of the site’s heritage.

Chief Executive Gordon MacLeod talking to the crowd at the first Devonport public meeting

“We want to ensure that nothing of historic value is lost and we will be installing interpretation panels explaining the history of the site in the village,” she said.

Debbie then went on to introduce the sales team, Nothern Regional Sales and Community Relations Manager Jill Gregson, and Sales Advisors Mark Cooper and Janet Coutts, and the expected move in dates for the first phases of the village.

“We hope to welcome our first residents into their new home in October 2018.”

“And we are aiming to have all of the care centre open by August 2019,” she said.

The village will include independent apartments, assisted living in serviced apartments, resthome, hospital and dementia care.

After the official presentation there were more than a dozen questions from the audience which ranged in topic from keeping pets and having guests to stay, parking, transferring to different accommodations within the village, solar panels, and whether there were any noise curfews after happy hour which raised a big laugh.

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Ryman Times - Devonport Edition

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Both born and brought up in Wellington, work prompted the couple to move to Whanganui where they raised their two children Campbell and Tara.

Play bowls with friends

Have morning tea with your friends, group or club in our café

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Eight years of very happy living on Auckland’s North Shore meant Robin and Peter Stewart were reluctant to spend their retirement anywhere else.

“We love it because it’s casual and relaxed,” says Robin.

“When we heard about Ryman’s Devonport village we were attracted to it because it was local and still close to all our interests,” says Peter.

Enjoy happy hour

Take a dip in the indoor heated pool

Remaining close to the beaches where they can take their granddaughter Mia was a big plus, as was staying heavily involved with Probus – they are members of both the Takapuna and the Milford clubs!

“It’s another chapter in our lives and we’re very much looking forward to it.”

The couple have lived a varied life full of interesting chapters before reaching this point.

Get together with the blokes in the Men’s Shed

Attend shows from visiting bands and performers

Peter worked as a school business manager at Wanganui Collegiate while Robin ran a successful floristry business for 41 years.

Peter was also a talented bass baritone opera singer who once sang with Kiri Te Kanawa as a 19-year-old.

But tragedy struck when their son died in an accident aged only 20 and their lives took a very different path.

“We went for a trip for 11 months around Europe and the UK and across the US and Canada and then we came back and lived in Brisbane for 20 years,” says Robin.

“Robin re-invented herself as a real estate agent at the age of 54,” says Peter with both of them adding with a laugh: “There’s hope for everybody!”

After 20 years in Australia the couple decided it was time to join their daughter Tara, by then settled in Auckland.

They remain focused on the future, and have planned a few months of travel before moving into the village, with meeting new people there being one of the biggest drawcards.

Says Robin: “When you get older you don’t know what people’s interests are or how they made their money so you take them for who they are rather than what they did, and that’s an adventure in itself.”

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Summer menu launched!

Our Delicious menus have taken our villages by storm since the launch in February this year. The much-anticipated summer menus combine age-old favourites along with a few new additions, such as the inclusion of couscous.

Hospitality manager Andrew Gibson said that the team concentrated on refining the menus for this edition.

“We’re building on the success of our previous menus by refining the recipes.

We know what works now and we’ll build from there. But we also included a few new dishes.”

Among these new dishes are chefs Paul Kuronic and Steve Iraia’s crab cake dishes.

Paul and Steve both won silver at the New Zealand Hospitality Championships earlier this year, and residents will now get a taste of their creations.

And the best new dish on the menu?

“Definitely the brisket!”

Andrew enthused.

The summer menus were rolled out in October.