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Fetu Tamapeau is the youngest member to be elected to Wellington City Council’s Pacifi c Advisory Group.

By Nikki PapatsoumasFetu Tamapeau is encouraging Pacifi c

people to make a difference for their com-munities and stand for Wellington City Council’s Pacifi c Advisory Group.

The Pacifi c Advisory Group represents the views of Pacifi c people, helps them to understand and take part in the Council’s decision-making, advises the Council on policy and planning, as well as the chal-lenges and issues facing Pacifi c people.

Fetu, who lives in Newtown, was the youngest member to be elected to the group and has just served her fi rst term of three years and will be seeking re-election.

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Wellington Region Emer-gency Management Offi ce (WREMO) are about to roll out their internationally award winning blue tsunami lines in Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie and Rongotai.

The lines, signage and evacuation boards are ex-pected to be in place by mid-April.

Project manager for the Tsunami Blue Lines pro-ject Alex Buckley says it is important people are aware the lines are being rolled out, so they can familiarise themselves with what to do

in the event of an emergency.The first blue tsunami

lines were painted in Island Bay in February 2010, and later in Owhiro Bay and Houghton Bay.

Alex says the current pro-cess has been very similar, and they have once again consulted with the com-munity as to where place-ment of arrows, which point people in the right direction in case of emergency, should go.

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Candidates are chosen from seven Pacific nation groups – two representatives from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu and three from Sa-moa, the group which Fetu represents.

Fetu previously studied Journalism, and it is through her studies that she became aware of the group.

“After attending meetings for stories I became frus-trated because I couldn’t be more involved, so I stopped journalism and got involved in community activism.”

At 27, Fetu says it is now her job to been an advocate for Pasifi ka people across Wellington.

“We are a Pacifi c nation,

but the Pacifi c voice is under represented in local govern-ance.”

Southern ward council-lor Paul Eagle serves as a council appointee on the Pacific Advisory Group with eastern ward councillor Sarah Free.

Mr Eagle says the council needs more Pasifi ka people participating in council’s decision making process.

“This group is the vital voice for Pasifi ka peoples of Wellington city.

“We need those willing to serve their communities, represent the views of their Island nation and stand up for the things that matter most.”

Both Fetu and Paul are both excited to have been part of developing the city’s Pacifi c Action Plan.

The document which is the fi rst of its kind will see the group work with council to ensure a Pacifi c voice is recognised and heard, and members elected next term will also have the opportu-nity to contribute to it.

“It’s all about teu le va, a concept about looking after relationships and the space between us. It is about build-ing positive relationships,” says Fetu.

Mr Eagle says the plan will be transformational for Pasifi ka people.

“There are some exciting initiatives in there that range from doing much more for elderly Pasifi ka people, to considering a new Pacifi c fale that could be foundation for a new community hub in Newtown.”

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The Roxy Cinema in Miramar will be celebrating its third brithday on Sunday April 6, and invites residents to join in the fun.

The day starts at 11am on the Mira-mar Plaza with live Jazz, coff ee, The Amazing Tavelling Photo Booth, face painting, and a gelato cart.

The event is free and designed for the whole family.

Fun and activities will run until 4pm, followed by a special screening at a discounted $5 ticket price.

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National Young Leaders Day will be taking place on April 7, and parents are encouraged to given their children the opportunity to be inspired and challenged by attending the secondary school event in the Michael Fowler Centre.

Guest speakers from diff erent walks of life will be sharing their story and leadership journey. The speakers selected are positive role models who are making a diff erence in their fi eld, such as sporting heroes, TV personali-ties, and top business men and women.

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Hilary Kay from BBC’s Antiques Road-show will be presenting ‘A Century of Toys’ at Te Papa on Sunday April 6, from 6-7pm. She will explore the develop-ment of toys, from the fi rst clockwork carriages to battery-powred robots.

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Campaigners outside Wellington Hospital are now over half way through their vigil as part of the 40 Days for Life campaign.

The international pro-life cam-paign is being held as part of Lent, in a hope to use prayer as a peaceful vigil to see an end to abortion, and similar campaigns are also being run in Dunedin and Auckland.

The vigil began on March 5 and will continue through to April 13, with campaigners praying every day from 8am to 8pm outside of Wellington Hospital.

Coordinator of Family Life International Wellington, Clare McClean says they are there for spiritual reasons, not political ones.

“We are here to pray, this is not a protest - it’s a prayer time. It is a spiritual battle we are facing not a political battle.”

Wellington hospital Executive Director (operations) Surgery, Women and children Delwyn Hunter says in a statement, “Our termination of pregnancy and counselling service does a tre-mendous job supporting women

during a very diffi cult time in their lives.

“We hope the campaigners respect the rights of women and continue their vigil in a peaceful and respectful manner.”

Clare says that since they began the vigil they have had a mixed reaction from the public.

She says their presence is not meant to offend anybody; they are there to listen and offer their

support and advice.“We would never force any-

body not to have an abortion, that’s not what we are here about. It is out of love not about forcing anybody.”

However a local woman who wishes to remain anonymous, says she has been through an abortion and believes their presence is just an added stress during a time that is already

extremely diffi cult for women. “It's hard enough knowing

what you’re about to do, and it would just make it worse having strangers opinions being in-fl icted on you, especially when they don't know your situation.”

She says she believes they are intimidating vulnerable woman.

“It's a bullying tactic, and shouldn't be allowed.”

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The visiting students, who come from a num-ber of schools in the Yokohama area, will be home-stayed by the local students.

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has been facilitated by the Asia New Zealand Foundation as part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations which will see a range of events and activities take place between February and October this year.

The children are work-ing with Japanese artist Teiko Nishimori of the Yokohama-based In-ternational Children’s Fr iendship Associa-

tion (ICFA) and Evans Bay Intermediate art teacher Stamatoula Boo-lieris.

The project will span over one week, and this Thursday the mural will be opened by Welling-ton Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Paint and equipment have kindly been spon-sored by Resene.

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Evans Bay Intermediate School Student Stephanie Edlin with Japanese student Moe Utsunomiya.

As Summer nears to an end, residents are reminded to turn their clocks back one hour on Sunday April 6, when 3am becomes 2am.

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The Strathmore Community Church is the proud owner of a brand new van, thanks to the generous support of the St Christopher’s Fellowship.

Member of the St Christopher’s Fellowship Malcolm Woods

says their group was established last year, after the St Christo-pher’s parish was dissolved.

The fellowship, who meets in the St Christopher’s church hall in Seatoun, shares the space with other community groups such as the Strathmore Church Group and Eastern Southern

Youth Trust.Malcolm says the Strathmore

Community Church had been trying to raise the funds for a new vehicle for some time, as they transport a lot of members between the church hall and their homes in Strathmore.

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them about what we could do to help, and a few weeks later we came back and said we would give them half the money towards a new van.”

He says the fellowship like to get involved in as many community projects as possible, and offer their assistance.

“Looking ahead we would like to secure St Christopher’s Church to become a community centre for use along the line of Old St Pauls in the city,” says Malcolm.

Member of the Strathmore Community Church Maurice Roberts says the van will not only help members of their church, it will also help with the running of the Eastern Southern Youth Trust, another project he is involved in.

“It is great to partner together and do things for the good of the community,” says Maurice.

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Malcolm Woods from St Christopher’s Fellowship presents Maurice Roberts from Strathmore Community Church with the keys to a brand new van.

Members of the Strathmore Community Church are now looking for people to help sponsor them with sign writing for the van and petrol vouchers. If you can help, contact Maurice at [email protected]

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Children from Newtown Playcentre took a little time last week to thank everyone who has helped support them.

Newtown Playcentre is part of the Playcentre Federation, and the not for profi t organisation is run by parents of the children that attend. Parents receive free training, giving them the confi dence to work with young children.

Coming off the back of Playcentre Awareness Week, Newtown Playcentre member

Caitlin Dalzell says it is a great moment to refl ect on how far they have come.

Newtown Playcentre has a rich history; they were established in 1952 by Beverly Morris and Gusti Botimer.

Life member Heather Leslie, who has been a part of the playcentre for 35 years, says a milestone was when they fi nally secured their home on Harper Street fi ve years ago.

“It is great, we are so rewarded by what we see the children doing and learning every day,” says Heather.

Heather’s children attended the playcentre and now her grandchildren attend, and she says at their roots they want to continue to focus on being a real part of the community, and a great place for families to network.

Both Caitlin and Heather say without support from local businesses and groups they would not be able to run from day to day.

“We want to say thank you the community for their on-going support in looking to the future,” says Caitlin.

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Residents of Farnham Street in Brooklyn are pleased a fi ve year dis-pute with the Wellington City Council has come to an end.

Home owners of prop-erties from 81 to 93 Farn-ham Street became con-cerned after they noticed a slip on the roadside cutting was posing a risk to parked vehicles and pedestrians below.

It was also causing is-sues to the access way above, however when residents approached council seeking repairs they were told they would have to meet 50 per cent of the costs, under the Access Way on Road Reserve Policy.

This policy stated that because the access way was only used by these residents, it was their responsibility to help with costs.

However residents said the path was built well over 50 years ago in its current form it posed a threat to vehicles and pedestrians below.

After completing a re-view, the council agreed to meet the full cost of fi xing the path.

Southern ward council-lor Paul Eagle says he is pleased to see a resolu-tion after many years of delicate negotiations.

“This is a great out-come after five years of working through the issues and dealing with a policy that was well

intended but the prac-ticalities of it had been proven diffi cult.

“Resident s s imply couldn’t afford to con-tribute half the cost but the council looked back through its archives and found anything that could help to get a positive out-come. The team led by Stavros Michael should be congratulated.”

Resident Celia Chap-man says she is more than pleased they have reached a solution.

“Having two kids it was the stress of having them coming down the path every day, the safety was impacting on the property.”

Work has now begun and is expected to be completed in mid-May.

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Southern ward councillor Paul Eagle with Farnham Street residents Celia Chapman and her children Lydia and Henry Chapman.

Cuba Street’s Thistle Hall closed this week so that earthquake strengthen-ing work can start on it Monday March 31.The work is expected to take up to six months.Steel portal frames will be installed at both ends

of the building, and steel bracing will be fi tted to the side and rear walls.Wellington City Council building resilience man-ager Neville Brown says the Thistle Hall is a valu-able community asset.“The work is part of our

eff ort to improve the re-silience of our buildings in an earthquake and for our heritage buildings to retain the characteristics that make them so special, for future Wellingtonians to enjoy.”

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Celebrating furry friends

The Miramar Community Centre is looking forward to hosting the very fi rst ‘All Creatures Great and Small Party’ this weekend.

The party is being held to help celebrate Miramar’s pet-friendly community and all are welcome.

There will be an opportunity to learn how to keep your pets safe this Easter and ask Miramar community experts for tips and advice.

Locals will also have the chance to fi nd a new member for their family and meet creatures great and small from the SPCA.Dogs are welcome on a lead to come along and learn some great tricks in their garden workshops, watch fantastic demonstrations and win some great prizes.

The All Creatures Great and Small Party will be held this Saturday, April from midday to 3pm and entry is free.


After 35 years of business Van-ity Fair Hair Salon in Miramar are sadly closing their doors.

The salon has been owned and run by Lorraine Solo throughout this time, until she sadly became sick and since then the salon has been run by her son Delano Solo.

“Mum was in charge but ever since she got sick it’s taken a downward spiral and now we are shutting the doors.

“It has always been about her, they have been following her for so many years.”

Delano says the salon really is one of a kind, and Lorraine’s love of the colour pink shows in all the décor.

“Nothing has been done to the place really in all these years; we have a real niche following of clients.”

Delano says it is the end of an era, and a real loss to the area, and they would like to thank everyone who has shown them support over the last three decades.

“I just want to say thank you to all mum’s loyal customers over the years, we wish them well and hope to see them around.”

Goodbye to local salon

Delano Solo closed the doors to his mum’s salon Vanity Fair Hair last Friday.

Yesterday Hataitai residents helped the suburb to celebrate a milestone – its 100 year birthday.

Hataitai Community Centre co-ordinator Jenny Raines says they celebrated 100 years of residential housing in Hataitai, and the date was chosen to tie in with Neighbours Day.

To celebrate, a community gather-ing was held at the Hataitai Bowling Club, and neighbours were invited to come and share stories about Hataitai’s history.

The colonial settlement of Hataitai dates back to 1841 with the land used for farming and grazing, and at its earliest Hataitai was known as Jenkins Estate.

The name Hataitai recalls the legendary taniwha, Whataitai, who was one of two taniwha who formed the Wellington Harbour.

It was officially given the name Hataitai in 1901 by the Hataitai Land Company, which was formed to sell sections of land in the area.

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letters spelling the name were cut into the grass on the side of Mount Victoria.

The letters remained visible for many years, before becoming over-grown, and briefl y appeared again in 1936.

In 1884 Kilbirnie School opened, and at the time it was opened to serve the whole of the Miramar Peninsula, Lyall Bay and Kilbirnie.

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Residents of Island Bay and surrounding areas are being asked to help locate the source of recurring discharge coming from the storm water outfall at the end of the concrete pier on Island Bay Beach. Residents have noted the discharge several times over the past year. An alert resident took this photograph in February, which shows distinct orange dis-charge coming from the outfall and fl owing into the Marine reserve. Greater Wellington Regional Council, Manager Environmental Regulation Depart-ment, Alistair Cross says it is diffi cult to trace the source of the contamination due to the size of the storm water catchment for this outlet. “To trace the contamination back would require us to follow a maze of connecting drains in the vain hope that we reach the contamination source before it ceases.

“In this case it appears that someone has poured paint into the system and I doubt that we would ever be able to locate the source.” “We have made a significant effort to make sure people understand that paints, solvents, chemicals and wash water should never go down private storm water drains or roadside gutters. “These drains often flow directly into streams and the sea with little or no treat-ment.”

Island Bay residents asked to help

Discharge coming from the end of the concrete pier at Island Bay Beach.

If you see any waste going into the gut-ter, call the Greater Wellington Regional Council’s 24-hour Environment Hotline as soon as you can: 0800 496 734.

Locals can look forward to Miramar Craft Central’s Easter Eggstravaganza coming up next month.

The market used to be held once a month however organiser Libby Butcher says now they have decided to run it as more of a ‘pop-up’ market.

“There wasn’t qu ite enough traffi c through for the stall holders so now it will be more of a pop-up stall market, so keep your

eyes out.”The market will once

again have plenty of enter-tainment for children with a bouncy castle and an Easter egg hunt where they will have to search for clues at each stall.

Libby says there will also be chocolate alternatives for those who are searching for an Easter gift, such as felted eggs and crotched rabbits.

All stall holder fees from the market go to Miramar

Central School.“For them any bit helps, so

the more stalls we can get the better the fundraiser it is,” says Libby.

Miramar Craft Central’s Easter Eggstravaganza will run on Saturday April 12 from 10am to 2pm at Mira-mar Central School.

Stall spaces are still av a i l a b l e , to b o o k a stall contact Libby at [email protected]

Easter Eggstravaganza to hit Miramar

Evans Bay Intermediate School....

Last week saw Evans Bay Intermediate School welcome students from Japan to do a combined Art Mural Project.

The Japanese students, all from various schools in the Yokohama area, are currently being billeted by EBIS students for 5 days while the mural is being painted. 25 EBIS Art Extension students with the 12 Japanese students have been given the task of painting the mural on the Kilbirnie Bowling Club wall in Evans Bay Parade.

“This is a wonderful learning opportunity for our children. This project is about our children making links to their global community. EBIS provided a formal powhiri to welcome the group last Wednesday. This whole school experience, has been a very special one. Every time we look at the Kilbirnie Bowling Club wall in future, we will be reminded of a truly great time we shared.” Principal Wendy Esera said.

Annette Gittos, wife of Senior Staff member Ben Gittos, helped to teach some basic Japanese to the Wellington host families. Assistant Principal Ed Trotter put in a huge amount of work liaising with Asia New Zealand who generously sponsored the whole exchange. Art Teacher Stamatoula Boolieris worked with students as they created the artistic masterpiece. An offi cial opening of the wall will be done by the Wellington Mayor on Wednesday 2nd April at 12.30.

“The Eastern Suburbs will have a wonderful community work of art, that everyone can enjoy, thanks to a group of 37 Japanese and Kiwi Kids!” Wendy Esera concluded.

Building Global Links!


readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words. They must be signed and a street ad-dress provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publication.The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication. Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to [email protected]. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

Libby CossarKilbirnie

“Half our house is insulated, it makes a difference.”

Gafua PemerikaKilbirnie

“Yes and it is nice and warm.”

Siobhan DouglasKilbirnie

“I think it is, we have a heat pump so we wouldn’t notice if it wasn’t.”

Sandra LawsIsland Bay

“Yes I have thought about it, my house has proper insulation.’

Michael LeeKilbirnie

“I thought about it a couple of years ago and got the underneath done. It is absolutely great.”

Alison ThwaitesKilbirnie

“Where my grandson lives it is, but where my husband and I live it isn’t. We rent so can’t do anything about it.”

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Q: The weather is getting colder, is your house properly insulated? If not, have you thought about it?

Dear Ed,Your March 21 "Five Minutes

With " a veteran seller and ser-vicer of sewing machines these last 48 years, got me thinking of my early years at what's now called Conumers New Zealand, from 1967 on.

All round, they were the most sophisticated and expensive of all home appliances. There was

a very large number of brands with a wide price-range, so we got a lot of enquiries from young wives and mothers who made their children's clothes, and wanted to know which machines were the most effi cient and reli-able, at affordable prices, while having all the functions required.

Things have changed vastly, young mothers, since about

1985, can now buy imported clothes at low prices. As those young mothers mostly go out to fulltime jobs, they don't in any case have the time for making clothes, though the machines are now a lot "smarter" in what they can do.

And relative to the purchasing power of our Kiwi dollar in 2014, against that of, say, 1974,

the machines are all a lot cheaper now, many models having func-tions that none had 40 years ago.

Anyway, it's good to see there are still some old experts in that industry; so let's hope this man and his shop will be around for a few more years.

H Westfold, Miramar(Abridged)

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My family and friends

What’s your pet hate?

When my mum doesn’t answer her phone when I need her to but she always expects me to answer mine when she calls!

Your favourite holiday destination?

What’s your favourite music?

I don’t really have a favourite genre, I like to think I have a broad taste in music but like many teenagers I listen to a lot of mainstream, top 40 stuff .

What is one thing Cook Strait News readers would be surprised to know about you?

My grandpa is American

ChocolateI really want to volunteer in Africa but probably more important on my wishlist would be to go to uni, take interesting papers, have passionate professors, graduate with a degree and fi nd a career that I am happy in and to travel!

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The Bridgestone Tyre Centre in Miramar strives to provide their customers with a top quality service.

Owner Steven Chin has been with the business since they opened the doors two years ago, and has a previous 15 years of experience, coming from Burkes Tyres in Kilbirnie.

He says at Bridgestone Miramar they like to meet their customers’ require-ments as quickly as pos-sible, with most jobs taking no longer than 24 hours.

Steven says they are able to provide a fast and friendly service, and can offer their customers a range of services includ-ing wheel alignments, puncture repair, nitrogen infl ation and tyre sales.

As well as these services, Steven feels a real point of difference for their busi-ness is the alignment work

they do with with classic cars - a service not many other workshops are able to offer in the area.

His staff are experienced with classic cars, and it is something they are pas-sionate about.

Steven says he is enjoying being part of the Miramar community, and says they are now looking to expand their customer base.

He says being tucked down a driveway at the end of Park Road makes it hard as people do not often know they are there, but they are excited to get the word out and continue to serve the wider Miramar community.

Pictured: Steven Chin (front) and Wheel Align-ment Technician Adam Llewell from Bridgestone Tyre Centre in Miramar.

Providing a top service

By Anna Bradley-Smith Massey Journalism

Student

Kilbirnie Park promises to be a venue for growth for the annual Weetbix sponsored triathlon after it hosted 2,000 children last Sunday.

Sanitarium spokesperson Stephen Andrews says the Weetbix Kiwi Kids TRYath-lon was moved from Lower Hutt to Kilbirnie Park this year so that more children could take part with the larger lanes at Kilbirnie Pool.

“We felt it was a great success. The feedback was very positive and there were lots of great activities and

smiles,” he says.“We capped the triathlon

at 2,000 this year to see how it went but next year we should be able to have more entrants.”

He says the triathlon for those aged between 7 and 15 aims to get children enjoying an active lifestyle and pro-motes physical and mental well-being.

One fi rst-time competitor was Lachlan Goodey, 8, from Waterloo School who did the triathlon with two classmates, Finn McQueen, 8, and Luca Siegel, 8, who had taken part previously.

Lachlan’s mother Karen Goodey says that despite the inconvenience for the Lower

Hutt families the change to Kilbirnie was a good move.

She says while there were more participants than when it was held in Lower Hutt, Kilbirnie Park did not feel over-crowded.

“It’s such a better venue. It was definitely a good change.”

Karen says that although Lachlan was nervous for his fi rst triathlon the three friends were really support-ive of each other and they all had a great time.

“The boys all cheered each other in at the fi nish line.”

All three boys are looking forward to taking part again next year and will defi nitely be back, Karen says.

Weetbix TRYathlon growing

Finn McQueen, 8, Lachlan Goodey, 8 and Luca Siegel, 8, get ready to race with the other 8-year-olds. PHOTO CREDIT: Anna Bradley-Smith.


The Wellington City Council is having the Oriental Parade Seascape Mural on the seawall near Freyberg Pool upgraded.

They are commissioning the original lead artist, Ellen Coup to smarten up the ply fi sh and touch up the faded paint work.

Work began last Monday, and Ellen says she is excited to be part of revitalis-ing this very popular public artwork.

“It’s an honour to be re-painting one of my fi rst big public mural projects and I’m excited to get started.”

Ellen Coup will be working alongside fellow artist Apotala Matepelu to help complete the mural.

The mural was originally painted by a group of artists in 2004 and included beautifully worked ply board fi sh and sea creatures.

It originated as a partnership between the Department of Conservation and the Wellington City Council.

With an educational aim, the brief called for an underwater Wellington Har-bour to be populated with wooden fi sh.

In the last decade it has been tagged, some of the ply fi sh have broken and some have been pulled off, and the paintwork has faded.

Arts programmes advisor for city art, Katie Taylor-Duke says that it’s not standard practice for Council to upgrade murals.

“This one seems to be a community treasure – much loved by residents, visi-tors to the popular Oriental Parade and passing children alike.”

Ellen estimates the work should take three weeks to complete, weather per-mitting, and the mural will be graffi ti guarded on completion.

The Seascape Mural on Oriental Parade is undergoing an upgrade.

If any of the original contributing artists wish to be involved in the cleaning, retouching and sealing of their work, they should phone Ellen Coup on 021 188 7630 or email [email protected].

Mural spruce up

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Island Bay Butchery will celebrate their quarter centu-ry birthday this week, ending with a celebration for locals to take part in.

When ref lecting on the past 25 years, owner Don Andrews says they have come a long way.

“I can remember going to the bank manager and ask-

ing for an increase on my mortgage so I could by the business and he told me I was crazy.

“When I bought this place butchers were closing down and supermarkets were open-ing, peoples eating habits were changing.”

In the last 25 years they have won awards for their now legendary sausages, and expanded into a Strathmore

store that Don purchased eight years ago.

“We fi rst entered the New Zealand Sausage Competi-tion in 2000 and after that it was when we really made a name for ourselves for our sausages,” says Don.

“I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has sup-ported us, if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be here. They have made it worthwhile.”

25 years for local butchery

The friendly team at Island Bay Butchery


Laura Batty, 4, loving the giant slide.Oliver Simpson, 10, and Mason Waterworth, 11, sumo wrestling.

Seatoun Gala a success...

By Caitlin Salter Massey Journalism Student

Seatoun School Gala, held

on March 23, was a resound-ing success with the record-breaking auction making a major contribution to the new senior playground.

Friends of Seatoun School

chairperson Kendra Ross says the outdoor area and the candy fl oss were the biggest hits for the kids.

The sun-fi lled community day featured pop-up shops from Icebreaker and Minx shoes. A number of local businesses helped out with food stalls, donations and auction items.

Charlie Dundon, 8, sister Sadie, 6 and friend Charlotte Badger, 7.

Ekaterine Za-hariadis, 8, Dianne Whitehead, and Olivia Pothan, 12.

Watson Woodbury, 2, and sister Anabella, 5, enjoying a drive.

Heath Dunnet, 3, driving the fi re engine.

Maz Williams, 6, pets a friendly sheep.

PHOTO CREDIT: Caitlin Salter

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The new electronic Shared Care Record will let authorised health care providers, such as after hours GPs and hospital doctors, access a summary of information from your GP.

Information like your test results, medical conditions, allergies and prescribed medications will be shared. The information will be available at any time, even if your medical practice is closed.

The information is stored securely in New Zealand and all access to the information is recorded and routinely audited.

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The deadline for out of zone enrolments is 9am 4 July 2014

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Imagine improvising a different dance move through a door 1000 times.

That’s what ten young dance students are getting ready to do, so they can fundraise to build the set for their show.

The third year contemporary dance students from the New Zealand School of Dance are creating their own dance works for the School’s Choreographic Season 2014.

This year’s show, called The Residents, is set in a decaying, mysterious building with stairways to nowhere and some surreal goings-on, and so far the students have one stand-alone door they have been using to rehearse their show.

Students have generously been offered a set of an old house for free, which was originally created for a fi lm shoot, but to cover the

costs of moving and installing the set in the theatre safely, they need to raise $2,000 by 13 April.

The school is working hard to fundraise for the show, but as a charity there isn’t enough to cover getting the set into the theatre.

So the students have formed a team and have set themselves the unusual fundraising challenge of improvising 1000 dance moves through their one existing door.

They’ll dance through the door on the buskers’ stage in Cuba Street, from 1pm on Thursday April 10.

Students believe it will take about three hours to complete the chal-lenge, which they hope will raise enough money to make their vision a reality.

To support the students, you can donate online at www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/choreo2014

Dancing through door of opportunity

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15Monday March 31, 2014SPORT

By Anna Bradley-SmithMassey Journalism

Student

Houghton Valley swimmer Saman-tha Lee is enjoying being back at sea level after return-ing home from a high altitude train-ing camp in the United States of America.

Lee was one of 11 New Zealand

swi m mers who spent a month doing

a specialist high altitude training at the Northern Ari-zona University, which has an aquatic centre used by

national swim teams from all over the world.

The high performance camp trained in the pool 11 times a week at a 2,106-metre altitude and did gym and circuit ses-sions in preparation for the Commonwealth Games trials in three weeks.

Lee says the training was designed to increase the ath-letes’ red blood cells, as that is how the body adapts to less oxygen at high altitude. This leads to athletes having a better oxygen intake when they return to sea level for competitions.

“When we fi rst got up there training was horrible, breath-ing was really hard and you got really tired really easily.

But by the second week most of us were feeling normal and over the month I fully adjusted.”

The optimum time for per-formance after coming down from altitude is either three days or three weeks due to the turnover of the red blood cells in the body, Lee says.

The camp was timed so that the athletes had three weeks until the trials for the Commonwealth Games, Pan-Pacifi c Championships and national age-group com-petitions.

Lee is entered in fi ve races for the Commonwea lth Games trials and her chances of qualifying are hopeful.

Lee says last year she did

some big personal bests and she is now in better shape so can hopefully go faster.

“I still have time to drop, but its not unrealistic and my coach says I’ve been training well.”

Things are looking good with Lee back in the water in Wellington.

“We all noticed the differ-ence on Thursday when we did a hard set and we all went really speedy and felt really good,” she says.

With the motivation of spending her 22nd birthday in Belfast at the Commonwealth Games, Lee is putting in the work for the trials.

Swimmer Samantha Lee, 21, taking in the fresh air from her balcony. PHOTO CREDIT: Anna Bradley-Smith

Back to sea level for local swimmer


Wellington Marist Football Club is injecting some new blood into its club, with the formation of an under 17 team.

The club is now looking for local support to help raise the money they need for registra-tion.

Marist Men’s fi rst team has been in the premier grade for a number of years, but last year were relegated to the fi rst division.

Team member Adam Hey-man, who has also come on board to coach the U17 team, says the committee believed this was because they are the only club in Wellington not to have a youth team.

He says after approaching Rongotai, St Patrick’s College Town and Wellington College they already have 12 boys set to play for their fi rst game on April 6.

Adam says they are also excited to have Nic Madden on board who has previously worked with Southampton Football Club and LA Galaxy, and Marist stalwart Chris Hubmann.

A $2400 registration fee is required by Capital Football and Adam says they hope to raise the majority of this through an upcoming quiz night at The Realm in Hataitai.

Local Kilbirnie businesses have come on board and of-fered prizes and items for raffl es.

The Wellington Marist Foot-ball Club U17 team quiz night will be held on Monday, April 28, from 7pm to 9pm.

Tickets are $10 each and seats are limited to 100 people. To reserve a ticket, email Adam at [email protected] team is also looking for more keen players, if anyone is interested they can contact Adam.

New blood for football club

Give Korfball a go

Young Wellingtonians had a chance to meet their sporting heroes at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie on Friday.

They mingled with players such as Ama Agbeze from the Haier Pulse, Jeetan Patel from the Wellington Firebirds, Pual Ifi ll from the Pheonix, and Lindsay Taint from the Wellington Saints,

receiving sporting tips and tricks.The sports pros coached mini-

games and ran development drills.

Facility Manager of ASB Sports Centre Craig Hutchings says that his team works hard to make sure young people are inspired to get involved in sports.

The Wellington Korfball Club is looking to introduce the sport to new players through a have-a-go session on Saturday April 5 at the ASB Sports Centre.

Korfball is a fast placed ball sport, similar to basketball or netball. The sport is played teams containing a mix of men and

women. Goals are scored by throwing the ball into a basket, set higher than in basketball and netball, and without a back-board.

The have-a-go session is free, and runs from 4:30pm to 6pm for anyone aged 15 and over.

Young sports players inspired

Over 500 of the best secondary school futsal players converged on Wellington’s ASB Sports Centre on Thursday and Friday in a quest to be crowned New Zealand Sec-ondary School Futsal Champions.

The two-day tournament which features a juniors, seniors and open girl’s grade, involved 48 schools from across the country and a number of New Zealand age-group representatives from the outdoor game.

Dave Payne, New Zealand Football’s Futsal Development Manager says the tournament’s growth has been great to see.

“In terms of the number of teams at the tournament we’ve grown

from 42 teams last year to 48 this year which is the maximum amount for the stadium. We will look to restructure the Champs next year to accommodate even more teams as the demand is there.”

Payne says the lift in skill on previous years is also evident across all grades.

“The skills on show are phe-nomenal to watch, there’s been a defi nite lift in technical ability. It’s pleasing to see how the coaching courses New Zealand football have developed are paying off locally in terms of the technique these players are starting to adopt.”

He says the tournament, run by

New Zealand Football in conjunc-tion with the New Zealand Sec-ondary School Sports Council, is important as a medium to provide opportunities in the secondary school space.

The support for the local schools such as St Patrick’s College, Wellington High School and Wellington College was plain to see, with a constant stream of spectators fi ling in and out of the Sports Centre over the two days.

To check out the fi nal results from the tournament, visit www.nzfootball.co.nz

Clayton Lewis from St Patrick's College Town. PHOTO CREDIT: Khalid Ahmed

Secondary school Futsal Champs

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