Frankton Flyer June 2014

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EDITION 13 - JUNE 2014

Frankton’s Alex McBurney meets Prince Harry at Cassino last month.

when the New Zealand Defence Force phoned recently with an invitation to join 40 other old diggers in their 90’s to fly to Italy for the 70th commemorations at Cassino last month, Alex was up for it.As a naive 21-year-old army corporal sent to war, he clearly recalls standing to attention unfazed as King George VI, Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Bernard Montgomery drove past. So a chance meeting with the monarchy’s Prince Harry at Cassino last month didn’t faze our Alex. “We were just walking along one behind the other in a crowd and suddenly there he was. He said, ‘It gives me great pleasure to shake your hand’ and put his right hand out. I said, ‘Oh do you think so,” grins Alex. “I had a sore from pruning and dead-heading my roses so I shoved my left hand out and he did too.”The hardy great grandfather of eight breezed through the medical tests to make the trip and avoided contracting a violent stomach upset that hit the other old diggers. However, it was a tiring and emotional trip back in time. Alex wasn’t too fussed about the “big wigs - Lords, Earls and Sirs” gracing the special Commonwealth Ceremony. He was most moved by the huge rounds of applause and shouts of ‘gracia’ (thank you) from

ust weeks from his 94th birthday, Alex McBurney takes life in his stride. He still plays golf four times a week, cleans and dusts his Frankton unit weekly and cooks his

own meals. Alex is also a dab hand with the roses. He’s survived World War II’s Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy, in which 343 Kiwi comrades were killed and 1211 soldiers wounded in May, 1944. “All my life I’ve never got excited, except when my sons, Peter and Robert arrived – now that was something special. Otherwise, if it happens, it happens. I just go with the flow,” says Alex. So

“Ite’s”(Italians) lined eight or nine deep along the street outside the commemoration ceremony for the New Zealand soldiers.

“The next day as we walked to the ceremony the Ites all clapped again. If an old dig stopped and waved there was a crescendo of ‘gracia’s’ and clapping. Only the Kiwis got that,” says Alex, proudly.New Zealand Governor General Jerry Mateparae got the big tick too: “Yeah, crikey, he was a beaut,” he says. “The Governor General grabbed my hand and said, ‘Come on dig’. I said, ’Geeze, it’s 70 years since I’ve been called a dig,” laughs Alex.Bad weather saw his flight home diverted back to Christchurch, but Air New Zealand flew him to Invercargill where his proud family was waiting. The regular 5am starts, long days and jetlag even wore Alex out. However, after a few days sleeping in the sun on his lounger he was ready to tee off at Frankton, where he’s on a 13 handicap, and Kelvin Heights, where he plays to a 28.Not bad for an old digger!

“He was most moved by the huge rounds of applause and shouts of

‘gracia’ from Italians”

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WHAT’S THE BEST SOLUTION TO FRANKTON’S TRAFFIC CONGESTION WOES? (SEE PAGE 9)WE ASKED WHAT THE LOCALS THINK.

‘Walk to work like me, or cycle. It saves pollution, which is what this town is promoting. It’s also good exercise.’

Laura PhillipsAlpine Fitness employee

‘Get that new Eastern Arterial Route up and running. I don’t think traffic lights will solve the problem.’

‘I’ve noticed the traffic queues have really extended and been a lot worse. Even in the shoulder season now there’s congestion between 5pm and 6pm and there didn’t used to be. I say get the Eastern Arterial Route built before Christmas, if it can be done. It’s only going to get busier.’

‘Around 5pm is a nightmare getting home from work. We cut along McBride Street. I’d like to see the new Eastern Arterial Route built in preference to traffic lights.’

Kamika SethiWild South Assistant Manager

Christa MillerQueenstown Airport biosecurity quarantine

Paul JobbinsQueenstown Resident

‘Forget the new arterial route and traffic lights options. Replace the Kawarau Bridge with a new two-lane bridge accessed from Riverside Road. That’s a bigger problem at the moment.’

‘Definitely no traffic lights. One set is one too many. Bring on the new Eastern Arterial Route.’

Mac Nealewith Lucas, 15 months

J.P. Arrowsmithwith Ruby, 18 months

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WHAT DO THE LOCALS THINK?

Well, ‘the Crow’ did know and the snow did come, bringing with it some real winter temperatures and some excellent grounding for what will hopefully be a bumper season. The town is revving up for the winter influx and the 40th anniversary of the Queenstown Winter Festival later this month (see our ‘Must Do’s’ page). This month we feature Frankton’s traffic woes and we’ve introduced a couple of fun new sections. Meet local hero Alex McBurney, this month’s ‘Frankton Fabulite’, fresh from the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. Dad’s can delight too. That DIY guy inside you may have been lying dormant for years, but our new DIY section will hopefully inspire fresh enthusiasm. Frankton, this is your community magazine.Thanks to those of you who emailed last month.We welcome your feedback and ideas.

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The region’s top emerging netball talents are combining to form a strong Wakatipu Under 19 Team to compete at the New Zealand Nationals next month in Dunedin. The team was selected after a netball training camp at the Queenstown Events Centre recently. Top players from Mt Aspiring College, Dunstan High School and Cromwell College were invited to trial alongside Wakatipu High School players to help bolster the depth of talent. Selector and Wakatipu Netball Centre president Kay O’Connell says it’s the first year they’ve combined young talent from around the region.”Up until last year we weren’t able to enter teams into the nationals as a centre, but because of the Netball New Zealand restructuring there is no qualifying for those and we now can,” says Kay. “However,

these girls are under no illusion. It’s not going to

be easy.” The recent camp was also used as a good training ground for the South Island Secondary Schools Netball Tournament in Invercargill in September. The Under 19 team is being coached by Wakatipu High School ‘A’ team coach, Lisa Murphy. Kay says there’s some strong talent in the squad, including young Under 17 shoot and goal attack Tepaea Dix, who is only turning 16 and heading into her second year in the Wakatipu High School ‘A’ team. Another player to watch will be Under 19 goal keep Izzie Allan, who Kay says would’ve qualified for the Southland Under 19 squad this year, but chose to play for Wakatipu. Outstanding Under 19 defenders Chelsea Schwass, of Cromwell College, and Wakatipu’s Monique Lynes are also expected to score some impressive turnovers for Wakatipu.


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HOLLY WOWS THE CROWDSOne of NZ’s hottest emerging singer-songwriters, Holly Arrowsmith, currently based in Frankton, wowed the crowds yet again at two sell-out local shows held in Queenstown and Arrowtown recently. Holly, the Songstars 2012 winner, and rising young Dunedin based talent, Ciaran McMeeken, who both grew up in Arrowtown, staged the shows as a tribute to NZ Music Month.“We think it’s really important to support local and national songwriters in their art and it’s great for Kiwis to experience what’s being produced around them and be

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KAWARAU VILLAGE DISCOUNTS FOR LOCALSLocals are being celebrated at the Hilton’s Kawarau Village. Newly-appointed Canadian general manager Chris Ehmann says it’s time to recognise the importance of the local community so he’s launching the Kawarau Village Local Loyalty Card programme for local residents. It’s free to become a Kawarau Village local and those who join up receive a 20 percent discount at all Kawarau Village eateries and bars, the Hilton’s luxurious eforea Spa and some other local business discounts. For information call into the Kawarau Village, 79 Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights, or email [email protected]

GOOD KAIKahoki Mikaere (left) and Candace Carroll, of Queenstown’s Te Iti O Tahuna Kapa Haka group, ham it up at a community hangi after the group performed at Frankton’s City Impact Church on May 30. The group pulled off a powerful Maori welcome and performance for visiting Te Awamutu guest speakers and pastors Ariki and Pam Ashford and a crowd of about 80 hangi-goers.

PARKING FREE-WHEELERSFree-wheeling airport parkers looking to save the $25 per day in long-term Queenstown Airport parking fees are having some of their free all-day parking spaces docked for safety reasons. NZTA regional boss Ian Duncan says the long lines of vehicles usually flanking both sides of State Highway 6, between the BP roundabout and Kawarau Falls Bridge, are not really compromising safety or blocking traffic flows. However, yellow no-stopping lines along the Ross and McBride Street intersections will ensure better visibility for cars entering the state highway.Frankton Community Association chairman Scott Freeman says although safety of motorists should come first, residents don’t want too many parking

restrictions along the state highway. “We can just see if that happens those people will just move down to McBride Street and leave their vehicles parked there for days, if not weeks, as we’ve seen happen before,” says Scott.“You see people coming

back from the airport wheeling their bags along McBride Street. If they can’t park along the state highway they’ll go searching the residential streets of Frankton instead and these people don’t always respect residential driveways,” he says.”If they’re saving $25 a day they’ll be happy to walk another 200 metres.” Lines of cars parked along that state highway entrance is not that aesthetically desirable for visitors who’ve just arrived at the airport, but Scott says the reality is it probably slows traffic down.Queenstown Airport Corporation chief executive Scott Paterson says although the corporation would prefer passengers parked at the airport, it’s up to them where they park. Long-term parking is available for $25 a day or $60 a week – that’s $8.50 a day.HELP URGED FOR TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK ARTICLE PAGE 9


MUMS MOMENTS

The Flyer’s 81-year-old weather guru David Crow assured us last month that there would be snow, but that was maybe just a little more than we’d expected in late May. Frankton received a generous 13cm dump and even though the MetService was predicting an overnight low of minus 9 deg on May 26/27 the temperature didn’t drop below minus 2degC and the coldest frost that week was minus 4.8 deg. Still the big snow sent a quiver of excitement through the district and David says, even though the temperatures will be a little milder than usual this winter, we can expect plenty more decent snowfalls. “With global warming everything’s getting just so much more severe. When it’s windy it’ll be very strong. Rain will be heavier and if it snows we’ll probably get heavier falls,” he says.

JUNE STATS. (AVERAGES) JUNE RECORDS

4.4 deg 74.1 hours

67 mm 2.5 days

Highest temperature(1942) – 19.8 deg

Lowest temperature(1942) – minus 6.6 deg

Frost(1952) – minus 12.6 deg

Highest sunshine(1942) – 102.1 hours

Lowest sunshine(1932) – 48.9 hours

WIFE•Picks up toys in living room•Puts away dishes in kitchen•Adds soap to dishwasher and turns on so •dishes are ready for the morning•Locks the back door•Picks up toys by back door•Cleans the glass on back of the door•Packs lunches and puts in fridge•Signs notes in the kids’ folders•Grabs clothes that have made their way downstairs•Takes clothes up to laundry•Starts load of laundry•Folds clothes that are in the dryer•Puts those clothes in the kids’ rooms quietly without waking them

•Checks on the kids•Checks and adjusts the heating temperature•Takes a shower•Brushes and flosses teeth•Gets the bed ready•Reads something uplifting•Goes to bed and thinks about the things she forgot to do•Gets out of bed and writes those things on anotepad to do tomorrow•Gets back into bed and goes to sleep

HUSBAND•Goes to bed.

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BUSINESS OF THE MONTH Winter sports enthusiasts are more vulnerable to poor eye health than they think due to harsh environmental conditions. Snow reflects almost all of the sun’s UV radiation and Specsavers Queenstown optometrist Aaron Irvine is urging locals heading to the slopes this winter to look after their eyes. Snowboarders, skiers and mountaineers should always wear 100 percent UV protective sunglasses or tinted ski goggles on the snow to protect their eyes against harmful UV rays, says Aaron. Lenses should be polarised to eliminate 99.9 per cent of glare by reflected light. “Make sure your eyewear fits properly and that no harmful rays can leak in around the edges,”

he says. “We’re generously endowed with sunshine hours in the Wakatipu during winter so there’s a lot more glare. That reflective glare is boosting up the harmful

UV rays from above and below, so you’re getting hit twice whether you’re on snow or water.” Most people remember to wear sunglasses at the beach in summer, but often forget about snow. UV rays are equally as damaging during winter as summer. “What we need to be aware of is that while a sandy beach generates about 1.2 times as much UV radiation as we would be exposed to standing in direct sunlight, snow reflects almost all the sun’s UV radiation. We effectively get double the dose of UV – even more than at the beach.”

The sun, glare reflected from snow, ice and strong wind conditions can damage not only the skin of your eyelids, but also the whites of the eye and in some cases lead to development of melanoma cancers or certain types of cataracts. “It’s vitally important for people who spend a lot of time outdoors to have regular eye exams so we can catch any abnormalities early and treat them,”

he says. People should have their eyes tested every two years, or sooner, if they notice anything out of the ordinary. This allows for early detection of any UV sun damage and problems like cataracts and genetic conditions like glaucoma. “This enables us to pick up serious problems

like cancerous melanomas that can occur on the eyelid or whites of the eye. Sunglasses will also reduce the risk of those occurring,” says Aaron.

Most Wakatipu residents are used to the high sunshine hours and invest in quality sunglasses to protect their eyes. Specsavers stores offer free digital retinal photography with all of their standard

eye exams and free eye exams every two years to those with AA memberships.


WELLNESS

Some would say Frankton resident Adam Chalmers has a dream job and he’d be first to agree. The 28-year-old personal trainer and health and nutrition specialist is the head retreat leader at Glenorchy’s plush new Aro Ha Wellness Retreat, which opened in January this year. Aro Ha is a first-of-its-kind retreat centre that offers life changing, body-morphing and spirit lifting retreats. It’s designed to rejuvenate the human spirit and has a huge focus on sustainability and permaculture based self-sufficiency. The centre produces its own power via solar and micro-hydro systems.

Most days Adam is up at 6.30am striking a Tibetan bowl outside the rooms of the retreat’s 5-star guests, ready for warm, freshly squeezed lemon drinks before their early morning yoga routine. A personal trainer with 10 years experience, mostly based in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Adam and his

nutritionist wife, Fran, who live in Frankton, also run a successful health blog, purelifebondi.

Arrowtown-born and bred, Adam also brings an Otago University science degree, majoring in human anatomy, nutrition and physiology, to his new role which he began fulltime last month. “I’m so blessed. This is absolutely my dream job. I love it,” says Adam. “As retreat leaders we mentor guests in all aspects of wellness, mind, body and soul. It’s a complete renewal process. When guests arrive they turn off their cellphone and laptop, shut off the craziness, unwind, recharge and rediscover nature.”

Each morning he leads his mostly city-dwelling troops into battle for their wellbeing, heading off on a four-hour hike, usually into the spectacular national parks at the head of Lake Wakatipu. “These walks are usually of pretty high intensity. We educate them about the local area, good food, health and lifestyle,” he says. Guests also work out with Adam while other leaders teach vinyasa yoga and pilates “Some of our guests are quite unfit. They’re usually wealthier successful Kiwis or Australians, a few Americans, and 70 percent would be women. It’s a lifestyle detox retreat aimed at reprogramming the mind, pushing people beyond their comfort zone.”

Diet is a huge part of the programme. A traditional, primarily raw, whole food vegetarian diet, exercise and meditation have been proven to heal the body at a cellular level. “Health is not a phase or a bunch

Adam Leads theBattle for Wellbeing

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Get your heart rate up 30 mins a day

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Love others. Live in peace. You were created for a purpose.

Head retreat leader Adam Chalmers living the dream at Aro Ha Wellness Retreat, near Glenorchy.

of fads. We’re trying to establish a new lifestyle and a huge part of that is trying to get the gut to function properly,” says Adam. Delicious nutrient dense vegetarian cuisine is prepared on site three times a day by the centre’s 5-star Brazilian chef. Guests enjoy educational lectures and cooking classes where they’re taught how to prepare the food, as well as how to grow their own.

Retreats last from five to seven days and Adam’s required to live on site in opulent and peaceful surroundings throughout each of these, something he totally relishes.

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The fish was perfectly cooked and complemented beautifully by the mousse. Not a limb or feeler was missing from the scampi with every part of the shellfish used in maximising the visual impact of this wonderfully presented dish. Our waiter was very attentive, arriving with complimentary warm bread, gluten free on request, and a warm finger bowl for the messy fingers. But it was my grilled Akaroa salmon, served on

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FOODIE FACTS: Wakatipu Grill, Kawarau Village, Peninsula Road, Kelvin Heights,Ph: 03 4509400www.queenstownhilton.comHours: Breakfast from 6am. Dinner Tues to Sat from 4pm-late.

When you think Hilton Hotels you think opulence and 5-star quality. That’s definitely what you can expect at Hilton Queenstown’s signature lakefront restaurant, Wakatipu Grill. This is a contemporary-style grill, with an open theatre-style kitchen and two cosy circular slate indoor fireplaces. As with many local restaurants, there’s a strong emphasis on fresh, local and seasonal produce, but this is no ordinary restaurant setting. This is a unique dining space, boasting one of Queenstown’s best lakefront dress circle restaurant locations. Even during winter it’s sunny during the day and cosy at night.

The decor is warm, wooden and inviting and on a cold night the restaurant’s glass enclosed outdoor terrace is well heated, making for a cosy romantic spot overlooking the Lake Wakatipu and its spectacular reflections. During summer these expansive glass doors are pulled back for warm evening lakefront dining. There’s also a comfortable circular outdoor fire pit where you can enjoy winter fireside pre or post-dinner drinks from a wine-list, starring plenty of Central Otago and New Zealand’s best, as well as top shelf spirits, cocktails and liqueurs.

I went for the delicious scampi, avocado mousse, oven dried cherry tomato and lettuce, topped with a tangy shellfish vinaigrette, as a starter ($30).

tarragon, green peas and clam broth, topped with fluffy lemon bubble foam ($36) that took top prize of the night. This pan-fried crispy skinned salmon fillet, drizzled in the delicious clam broth finished with butter, literally melted in the mouth, leaving a wonderful salty seafood after-taste. The watercress and foam topping added the perfect finishing touch. Sous chef Scott Wysockyj creates the lemon bubbles using sugar syrup and a “secret chemical”, which, for now, he’s not disclosing. The fillet sat atop a generous bed of steamed little neck clams soaked in a rich fennel, carrot and onion broth. This was a filling and very satisfying winter dish, leaving little room for dessert, but if you have room, definitely ask for the immaculately presented chocolate tart with brandy snaps cigars ($18). (See page 13 for recipe). The Grill’s pastry chef Jo Hicks-Beach has earned an “exquisite” rating for both taste and presentation on this dish.The menu also features an impressive line-up of New Zealand beef cuts and merino lamb (ranging from $38 to $50), prepared in the sous vide, with a mouth-watering selections of sauces to choose from.

This is a reasonably pricy, upmarket restaurant, but for a fine-dining experience the portions were quite generous. Kids (under 16) also dine free here off the children’s menu (one per paying adult).

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Kids at Remarkables Primary School are now enjoying a recently-completed $26,000 playground upgrade, thanks to some generous trust funding, donations, fundraising parents and DIY Dads.

Principal Debbie Dickson says it’s taken two years of hard work to get the project completed. Delighted kids can now enjoy a new $13,000 slide installation and $12,000 worth of fun new playground equipment, including a flash fitness station, bridge, monkey bars, climbing wall, flying fox, a double twister and rope climbing frames. Individual items have been installed around the school grounds and Debbie says the whole community is welcome to enjoy the playground outside school hours.

Foodstuffs awarded a much needed grant towards the project and New World Wakatipu owners Anthony and Michelle King also made a generous donation, which combined, bolstered

KingsView Early Learning Centre held a fun open day on May 30 throwing the doors open to the public to celebrate the Frankton preschool’s upgraded playground and second birthday.

The tiny tots were especially excited to show off a new Bird Sanctuary in the outdoor play area, which team leader Gill Hodgson says was put together with generous support from the Wakatipu’s Jean Malpas Community Nursery. The upgrade, which also included a new ‘Pencil Fence’, took a lot of fundraising and the centre is now ready to expand its numbers up to about 30, if necessary. The ‘Wonkey Donkey’ creator and performer Craig Smith was on hand to entertain and the children enjoyed a Bouncy Castle and birthday cake.

Above: Kingsview tiny tots from left Otis Harmer, Mikayla French and Kourtney Robertson, try out the Bouncy Castle.

Right: New World Wakatipu owner operators Anthony and Michelle King try out some of the new play equipment with Alex Pederson (centre left) and Emmerson Dickson (centre right), both 5.

The aim is that families in the community will come in and make the most of this wonderful new play equipment at weekends and meet here for picnics. That’s what a community school does.

the funds by about $7000. Some pieces were kindly donated by Placemakers and Mrs Dickson says there have been a lot of parent volunteers involved in getting the project completed and installed.

The school is very grateful for the huge amount of community support and now wants families to come and enjoy the benefits.


A major Frankton developer is pushing for an urgent start to a planned new road that will absorb 600,000 vehicles a year, hugely relieving worsening traffic gridlock at Frankton.

Remarkables Park managing director Alastair Porter says he’s delighted that the Queenstown Lakes District Council has proposed that more than $9 million worth of funding be approved in its annual plan to complete the much-needed Eastern Arterial Route. That route will improve traffic flows at Frankton, he says.

At least 1.7 million vehicles visit Remarkables Park a year - 70 percent more than nine years ago when the shopping centre attracted one million vehicles a year. Averaging 1.5 people per vehicle, that’s 3 million people a year.“Our traffic designers say 600,000 Remarkables Park vehicles will use the new Eastern Arterial Route and the BP corner is getting unbelievably congested, with queues extending beyond the Kawarau and (Lower) Shotover bridges,” says Alastair. That congestion will only become worse this ski season with the wonderful new access road and

infrastructural improvements at Remarkables Ski Area, he believes. “Once the council money is approved, there’s only the need for NZTA (New Zealand Transport Agency) approval for its share of the funding.”Remarkables Park has been one of the parties assisting the council with its bid to recoup more than 50 percent of the new route’s cost as subsidy from NZTA. “We’re really pushing them to get on and build that new route this summer,” says Alastair. “NZTA says they don’t think it will be completed this summer, but our experts believe there is time to at least complete a two-lane rural road to relieve traffic pressure and add the lighting and footpaths later,” he says. “You could easily do that privately in six months - three to design and three to build.” He’s urging residents to strongly encourage the council to get on and make that application for design and construction funding for the new route as it will benefit the whole community.

However, the first stage of those highway improvements, a new and safer Glenda Drive intersection, will begin just before Christmas. NZTA has just let a $300,000 design contract to GHD Ltd for the much-needed Glenda Drive intersection. This work includes a new roundabout where the proposed Eastern Arterial Route will connect with State Highway 6.Traffic lights at the BP roundabout are also being

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HOW TO MAKE YOUR KITE

In an age when the art of good old Kiwi DIY (do it yourself) is under threat we hope to inspire Dad’s with some great tips for rekindling that DIY guy inside.

For many busy families gone are the day when Dad’s spent weekends tinkering in backyard sheds with the kids, fixing bike punctures, sawing wood scraps and creating home-made toys. These days they pay somebody else to do that and many kids don’t get the opportunity to learn how to use tools or even saw a piece of wood correctly. However, there are still DIY Grandad’s living amongst us, doing just that. Here are some tips from an experienced old hand on how to make great home-made kites with the kids that really

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Ask a joiner or builder for a few off-cuts of wood, or buy them if necessary (twigs are your last resort!) Saw off two thin sticks, one 76cm in length and the other about 61cm. Make a kite cross tying the centre connection, (just over 15cms from the top point and 60cms up from the bottom) in the middle tightly with string. Carefully cut a small slit in each end corner of the kite. Tie your framing string into the top corner and feed it around the outside frame securing at the top. Cut a large piece of brown paper or newspaper into the kite shape, leaving an overlap of about 7cms, which you then glue down with home-made flour paste (combined flour and water) or commercial glue. Run a main string from the bottom to the top leaving about a 50mm slack. Tie

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Nestled in the foothills out of sight, near the shores of Lake Johnson, a stone’s throw from the hustle and bustle of Frankton, is one of its most precious historic gems. If it wasn’t for the passion and foresight of renowned Queenstown heritage architect Jackie Gillies and the generosity of

Queenstown Winter Festival is celebrating its 40th birthday this year and this month’s programme digs out all the old favourites from yesteryear, celebrating the history of what is now the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest winter party. The original festival was birthed over a beer by a few blokes down at Eichardt’s Pub in 1975. Back then the locals thought winter was a great excuse to throw a party and 40 years on they still do.

The 10-day, 40th celebration festival kicks off on Friday, June 20, with a giant 40th birthday cake at the opening of the Winter Wonderland Ice Rink. It’s then straight into the American Express Opening Party and Fireworks from 5.30pm (fireworks at 7pm) where local bands will kick off the night playing favourite hits from the last 40 years. If that’s not enough, SKYCITY is hosting a 70’s Night Party with LA Social Club from 8.30pm on opening night, featuring all the hits from 1975.Fittingly this year’s Festival Street Parade theme is ‘Step Back in Time’ to the 70’s and ‘Forty is the new Thirty’ is the topic for this year’s Comedy Debate. There could be some loose lycra and flash fluoro at the 70’s Disco Workout, a mass public workout on Earnslaw Park, revisiting styles and music from 1975.

The festival Drag Race is always a crowd pleaser and when it first joined the festival line-up, the 70’s crowd was expecting revving engines and throaty exhausts. To both their horror and delight leggy blondes with hairy chests tottered out in high heels instead, ready to tackle a lakefront obstacle course. Favourite, aging contestants from days

gone by have been dragged out of retirement this year for a special comeback. Past champions will be dusting off their frocks and bling ready for battle in their unforgettably short skirts at 3pm, June 26, on Earnslaw Park. Original iconic events like the canine chaos Dog Derby and Dog Barking Contest, a feature of every festival since 1975, and Birdman Contest will, of course, be back like never before.

Lynley Hansen, the historic Hansen’s dairy and many relics of the well-known Frankton farming family’s original 1860’s farmhouse may have been lost forever. Jackie and husband, Queenstown lawyer Warwick Goldsmith’s Lake Johnson home is an authentic tribute to that era, cleverly incorporating the dairy and salvageable parts of the old farmhouse into a heritage masterpiece. Their 8-month, early-1990’s building and restoration project was definitely a labour of love, but there were some delightful finds along the way that made it all worthwhile.“Sadly we had to pull down two out of three parts of the original farmhouse, including an 1860’s shingle roof section, but we were able to restore the 1901

cottage section,” says Jackie. The most exciting discovery came when a precious piece of British history was discovered pasted onto the interior weatherboards - copies of the Illustrated London News from 1867 and 1868. The photographic spread revealed the interior of London’s proposed Royal Albert Hall of Arts and

Sciences in Kensington, Gore. It now takes pride of place displayed in the stairwell entrance to the home. “I squealed with delight like Piglet when I saw that,” she says. “I just love it as an artefact of an old building.”The British-born granddaughter of famous plastic surgeon, Sir Harold Gillies, Jackie’s been passionately designing buildings since she was a child. She’s well-known for her intricate attention to heritage detail. Even the lintels over her country farmhouse-style kitchen windows are made out of framing retrieved from the original Hansen house.

The farmhouse’s old ledged and braced T & G doors with brass handles now take pride of place covering the pantry. Mud bricks have been used throughout the interiors.Centre stage, complete with original Hansen family graffiti and farm stencils stamped on its interior plaster walls, is the old cowshed dairy, cleverly incorporated as a library and separate lounge. Its exterior stacked stone walls form a distinctively historic feature in the dining room and Jackie proudly points out where the milk and butter would have been made.It was heart-breaking having to visit the remains of the historic Paradise Homestead, destroyed by fire late last month. Jackie was the consultant on that restoration project. But in true Jackie Gillies style she had already saved an old piece of the original wallpaper from that restoration, which she’s been creating into a panel embroidered onto old hessian. “The focus of that piece has now changed because of the fire and will become more of a memorial.”

QUEENSTOWN HERITAGE ARCHITECTJACKIE GILLIES

Jackie with the salvaged panel of copies of the Illustrate London News from the 1860’s.

Jackie Gillies with Christian Hansen’s original farm branding stencil in front of the home.

Hard work ahead - the original Hansen dairy when Jackie started in 1994.

Above: A local station dog lets fly during the Dog Barking Contest on Coronet Peak during the festival in the 1990’s.

There’s a more serious side. This year’s Gen I Business Lunch will look ahead to the next 40 years and what tourism in Queenstown will look like then, while the Queenstown 2040 panel discussion will discuss ‘Where Will The Snow Be In 2040’. A newly-created visual display telling the festival’s story through photos, memorabilia and recollections of those who have made their stamp on this iconic event, will feature in Marine Parade daily. ‘Our Story:Celebrating 40 Years’ has been developed especially for the 40th celebrations. So freshen up that fluoro and those flares and get ready to party. There are plenty of free events and as always there’s a fun line-up for all ages.Check out the programme at;www.winterfestival.co.nz

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