Bay Harbour: April 04, 2018

Wednesday <strong>April</strong> 4 <strong>2018</strong><br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Lyttelton Rotary’s role<br />

More mossies?<br />

Lyttelton Rotary Club<br />

is starting a bi-monthly<br />

column in <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

News this week. In his first<br />

column, club member<br />

Barry Toomey writes<br />

about some of the recent<br />

activities in which the club<br />

has been involved<br />

ON MARCH 25 we held an Art<br />

and Craft Fair at the Lyttelton<br />

Recreation Centre which showed<br />

a diverse display by many<br />

talented artists and crafts people<br />

within the Canterbury region.<br />

Thank you to Adrienne<br />

Pavelka for organising this successful<br />

event. It was good to see<br />

a variety of people come along,<br />

including two of our local MPs,<br />

Ruth Dyson and Nuk Korako.<br />

We have also had a great<br />

response to our Easter raffle.<br />

Thank you to the many people<br />

who have supported us and purchased<br />

tickets.<br />

At the end of 2017, we had our<br />

annual Christmas raffle with the<br />

proceeds going towards a new<br />

oven at community house. The<br />

Community Carols evening held<br />

in Albion Square was a great<br />

success and the club has been<br />

asked to hold this event on a<br />

regular basis. Thank you to the<br />

Lyttelton community for their<br />

DISPLAY: Port Hills National list MP Nuk Korako with Art and<br />

Craft Fair organiser and local artist Adrienne Pavelka.<br />

support with this event. We look<br />

forward to seeing you all again<br />

this Christmas.<br />

Lyttelton Rotary Club was<br />

formed in 1963 and has been<br />

helping and supporting the<br />

people in the harbour basin ever<br />

since.<br />

The club has been involved in<br />

many projects over the years,<br />

with all funds raised used to assist<br />

in the community.<br />

We are always looking for<br />

new members to join our club<br />

as a friend or a full member, or<br />

offer to assist us with any of our<br />

upcoming projects.<br />

•If you would like to know<br />

more about the Lyttelton<br />

Rotary Club and what projects<br />

we are planning, please<br />

feel free to call us or come<br />

along to one of our meetings.<br />

For more information<br />

please call Barry Toomey on<br />

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CHURCH BAY and Diamond<br />

<strong>Harbour</strong> residents are reporting<br />

a rise in mosquito numbers this<br />

year.<br />

Church <strong>Bay</strong> Neighbourhood<br />

Association secretary Pat<br />

Pritchett said she has noticed<br />

more than usual. “We’ve had<br />

to shut the windows in the evenings,”<br />

she said.<br />

Mrs Pritchett put it down to<br />

the weather conditions, with the<br />

heat giving rise to more breeding,<br />

“although interestingly<br />

after those two cold days we had<br />

(recently), there were a lot the<br />

following day when it came out<br />

hot again.” She said the insects<br />

were still biting and it had been<br />

a topic of discussion at a recent<br />

book club meeting.<br />

“One of our friends on the<br />

road around to Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

hasn’t had any; she’s been<br />

able to sit outside. Others said,<br />

‘well you’re lucky because everybody<br />

else has them and has been<br />

complaining about them’.”<br />

The insects may not be mosquitos,<br />

she added, as they didn’t<br />

make a noise like mosquitos<br />

said. “They’re more like a sandfly.”<br />

“Sometimes you look down<br />

as you feel something itchy and<br />

you can’t even see anything.<br />

We will deliver!<br />

And then the bite comes up<br />

so I don’t know what they are.<br />

Mosquitos are usually around<br />

in damp weather and it’s been<br />

very dry. So whether it’s another<br />

species<br />

. . . somebody might know.”<br />

The issue has attracted comments<br />

on the Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong><br />

Community Facebook page.<br />

Said one resident: “They savage<br />

me when I go in the garden.”<br />

Another said they had experienced<br />

“unusually vicious bites.”<br />

Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong> Community<br />

Association president<br />

Richard Suggate said while he<br />

hadn’t personally noticed an<br />

increase in biting insects, he<br />

wouldn’t discount what others<br />

had said.<br />

“The point about seasonal<br />

warmth and large rain is true.<br />

We’ve had some late summer<br />

wet, rainy periods on and off<br />

and combined with the warm<br />

conditions that’s probably what’s<br />

causing it, but I’m no expert on<br />

mosquitos, I just know that they<br />

breed in warm conditions with<br />

water around,” he said.<br />

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biting insects this summer<br />

and what has caused it?<br />

Email sarla.donovan@<br />

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