Bay Harbour: June 28, 2017

PAGE 2 BAY HARBOUR Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2017</strong> Inside FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK News...................................... 3-9 EVERY LITTLE bit counts. And in the case of the campaign to clean up our oceans, two Sumner School students (see page 1) are taking small but very important steps in the right direction. Save the ocean is the message Izzy Morritt and Lucy Rule are broadcasting with their school project campaign to ban plastic bags from supermarkets and daily life in general. Plastic is killing the world’s sea life and the chemicals that plastic contains has now worked its way into the food chain. The world’s super powers haven’t taken climate change and the environment particularly seriously over the decades. It will be the likes of Izzy and Lucy and their generation who will become leaders of the future. So maybe there is hope for the planet’s future. – Barry Clarke 8 Festival of Lights NEWS Local Views......................4 Local Schools...................15 Sport.................................. 17 Community Events......21 Real Estate.....................22 GET IN TOUCH General Inquiries Ph 379-7100 Classified Advertising Ph 379-1100 The Christchurch Star Company Ltd. PO box 1467 - Christchurch starmedia.kiwi NEWS Caitlin Miles Ph: 364 7442 caitlin.miles@starmedia.kiwi ADVERTISING Javier Balcazar Ph: 982 9308 javier.balcazar@starmedia.kiwi ADVERTISING Rob Davison Ph: 021 225 8584 rob.davison@starmedia.kiwi Crazy but true – you can have a smoke-free fire. You’ll be warmer and save on firewood! Learn how to burn smoke-free and be in to WIN great prizes. Enter meow. An iPad Prizes to WIN! Purrrfect. 12 Kindling Crackers 40 Cosy Home Packs Learn more at our website.

Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2017</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi BAY HARBOUR PAGE 3 News From Bermuda to Akaroa for Team New Zealand? • By Gordon Findlater THE AKAROA Yacht Club hosted a crowd of around 40 for yesterday’s America’s Cup finale. After its success they can’t see why they couldn’t host the whole regatta. “There were some murmurs of Akaroa hosting the next America’s Cup,” laughed club • By Caitlin Miles A TEMPORARY targeted rates increase could be put on properties in Akaroa to help fund the health hub. Akaroa Community Trust has asked the city council to increase rates on houses that the Akaroa Health Hub would service to help reach its community fundraising target. The community needs to raise roughly $2 million for the project and, while fundraisers and private donations are helping it towards this goal, the trust thinks the temporary rates increase could speed things up. The health hub is not a city council project, meaning it is uncertain whether the increase will actually happen. City council staff are working captain Tim Richardson. “It was a beautiful morning here, you could have thought you were in Bermuda, other than there being no wind and some ice on the steps.” When a 5am coffee quickly turns into a champagne breakfast, any idea can’t be ruled out. The club has been in full swing, hosting early morning on a report about the impact of the proposed rates increase so councillors can make a more detailed decision on what it should do. Ngai Tahu Holdings – Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu pulled out of the project last year, which meant the Akaroa community needs to raise the more of the money required for the health hub. The project is a partnership between the Canterbury District Health Board and the Akaroa community. HAVE YOUR SAY: Should the city council put a targeted rates increase on Akaroa properties? Email your views to caitlin.miles@ starmedia.kiwi breakfasts since the beginning of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup qualifiers. “We haven’t changed the menu. It’s been ham and cheese croissants with gold medal ham from the Akaroa Butchery,” said Mr Richardson. Even after the events of San Francisco, he described the atmosphere in the early hours as a calm one. “We were pretty confident. We had We Are the Champions by Queen ready to play as soon as they crossed the line,” he said. After the big race some of the club members got into the racing spirit themselves with some remote control yachts on the wharf. Plan to increase rates to build health hub OUTSIDE: An artist’s impression of the final design for the Akaroa Health Hub. In Brief MUSEUM LAND FEEDBACK The Lyttelton community has until Friday to provide their input into a proposal to gift city council land to the Lyttelton Historical Museum Society. The city council is considering gifting land at 33-35 London St to the society so it can rebuild a museum. The city council has no plans to use the land, which the Lyttelton Service Centre occupied until it was demolished following the February 22, 2011, earthquake. The land is valued at $220,000. To make a submission on the proposed gifting of the land, go to https://ccc.govt.nz/the-council/ consultations-and-submissions/ haveyoursay/show/39 RESIDENTS PARKING A decision on introducing controversial residents only parking in Clifton Tce, Sumner, could be made soon. The Linwood- Central-Heathcote Community Board will go to the section of Clifton Tce on Monday which the city council is proposing to make residents only parking. This would mean residents would have to pay a yearly fee to be able to park there. The plan was met with mixed responses from residents. Five responders supported the plan and five were against. The community board is expected to make a decision once they have visited the site. Nuk Korako National list MP based in the Port Hills A E P 6/950 Ferry Road, Ferrymead nuk.korakomp@parliament.govt.nz 03 384 0008 facebook.com/nukkorako.PortHills korako.co.nz Funded by the Parliamentary Service and authorised by Nuk Korako, 6/950 Ferry Road, Ferrymead, Christchurch WINTER NESTING Top Quality Free Range Meat Cuisine Artisan Award Winner <strong>2017</strong> • Fresh meats – all free range • Smallgoods made on site • Gluten free sausages • Cheeses and deli items Share, like and make a comment on our Facebook page to go into the draw to WIN a $50.00 voucher Closes <strong>June</strong> 30, <strong>2017</strong>. 303 Colombo Street (opp Funky Pumpkin) Telephone: 03 337 2929 www.eurogourmetmeats.co.nz CHECK OUT OUR NEW WEBSITE homestore + ten27 eatery curtains + cushions + wallpaper + furniture + bed linen + homewares 1027 Ferry Road + 03. 384 4880 www.casualandcountry.co.nz