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Water qualityrulesjeopardise farm sales

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BY TOM DOUDNEYFarm sales are being hit due to un-certainty surrounding the regional councils controversial water rules.

Real estate company, Colliers In-ternational, says some farm sales in Selwyn are not going ahead because buyers were worried about new En-vironment Canterbury water qual-ity rules.

Colliers International rural and agribusiness director Ruth Hodges told the ECan-led Selwyn Waihora Zone Committee last week that she was aware of three farm sales, including at least one in Selwyn, which had not gone ahead because buyers were worried over the impli-cations of the water rules.

Typically, the buyers had offered 20 per cent less than the asking price as a result, she said.

ECans Variation 1 of the Canter-bury Land and Water Regional Plan sets out rules that dictate water use including nutrient limits for most Selwyn farms.

It is operative but under High Court appeals from Federated Farmers, the Ellesmere Irrigation Society and Forest and Bird.

ECans Plan Change 4, which cov-ers a wide range of issues relating to water, will be open for public sub-missions from Saturday, with the first hearing week to begin on Feb-ruary 29. Turn to page 3

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BY KYLE KNOWLESRichie McCaws record-break-ing shorts have a new home on the wall of the The Famous Grouse Hotel in Lincoln.

McCaw wore the shorts in the 41-13 win over Australia at Eden Park on August 15, his 142nd test for the All Blacks a world record.

Hotel owner Craig Bradford was the successful bidder for the shorts at a charity auction.

He wont disclose how much he paid for them.

The signed shorts now have pride of place in the hotel.

Mr Bradford said he bid for the shorts because he was a great rugby fan, it was Rugby World Cup year and they were such a significant piece of memorabilia.

He bought the shorts at the Banks Peninsula Trotting Clubs sponsors night.

Trotting club president, Paul Davies, said one of the clubs committee members, Maurice McDermott, is a friend of Mc-Caws and asked the All Blacks captain for some memorabilia for the auction.

He generously gave the shorts.

McCaw used to work on Mr McDermotts farm when he was studying at Lincoln University and the two have remained friends ever since.

A rugby ball signed by Mc-Caw was also auctioned.

McCaw has since phoned Mr Bradford as he was curi-ous about where the shorts had ended up.

He wanted to know who bought them and he said he would come out after the World Cup and sign anything I wanted.

I thought he didnt need to do that. That is the mark of the

man, hes such a decent guy and a peoples person, Mr Bradford said.

He said as long as he is at The Famous Grouse the shorts will be too.

As for McCaws jersey, Mr Bradford speculated the All Blacks captain would have hung on to that.

He said with the history embroidered on the jersey it was something McCaw would have probably kept.

Mr Bradford said that jersey will one day be a centre piece of a rugby museum.

Richies shorts end up in grouse place

Orion buy backElectricity lines company Orion is seeking to buy back $9.7 million in shares from the district council in a move it says will help it achieve a better balance between debt and equity. The district council owns 10.7 per cent of the company. Orion is looking to buy back $90 million of shares in total, with the rest to come from Christchurch City Council which owns 89.3 per cent. District councillors will be asked to approve selling the shares at tomorrows meeting.

New cyclewayA new walking path and cycleway linking Springfield with the Kowai Pass Domain could receive district council backing at tomorrows meet-ing. Local residents Murray and Les-ley Faulkner have offered to donate 2190 sq m of their land for the project.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS: Broadfield School pupils took a trip back in time to World War 1 for their production, Best Mates, performed in Hornby High Schools auditorium on Wednesday. The script was written by teachers Jarrad Welsh and Phil LeLievre. Set in Broadfield during wartime, the story depicted strong local characters and families facing the adversity of war. Each class performed a piece in time relating to the overall theme, with a variety of comedy and tear jerking moments. All of the props and staging were supplied and made by school families. Parent Belinda McMillan made many of the costumes herself with Rolleston Costume Hire supplying the rest free of charge. More than 400 people attended the afternoon and night time performances.

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BY TOM DOUDNEY

Police have spoken to the person they believe may have sparked racial abuse against Fijian rugby player Sake Aca.

Detective Damon Wells said he was pretty confident the man was one of the main instigators of the abusive taunts directed at Aca while playing for Christchurch in the club rugby final against Lincoln University

on July 26.Aca (rght) left the field

in tears after the abuse which was believed to have come from a section of Lincoln supporters in the crowd.

Detective Wells confirmed that the man, who was interviewed by police on Friday, was one of the people named on a list sup-plied by Lincoln University. He hoped that the man might be

able to help police identify more people involved.

However, he would not comment further on the conversation with the man.

Police took up the investigation after a complaint from the Canterbury Rugby Football Union but Aca himself has indicated he does not want to lay a complaint of his own.

Detective Wells said Aca had indicated he would prefer to meet privately with the man to resolve the matter.

He was not sure if a prosecu-tion was likely to take place, given Acas unwillingness to make a complaint.

A spokeswoman for CRFU said it was seeking an update from police and would not com-ment further until this had taken place.

Police talk to Acas racial abuserFrom page 1Mrs Hodges told the Selwyn Times

those hesitating to buy or making lower offers appeared to be people who were interested in converting existing farms to a new model of operation.

When a purchaser is wanting to go and change the farming system, whether that is by intensifying or changing from arable to dairy support, that is where a much greater level of due diligence is re-quired, she said.

ECan zone committee member and South Island Dairying Development Cen-tre executive director Ron Pellow said he agreed with Mrs Hodges findings.

He said the new water rules could lead to farmers accepting lower prices, but it was dependent on how much of a hurry they were in to sell.

But Mr Pellow said that as more clari-ty was gained about the rules, the uncer-tainty around price would likely disap-pear. Mr Pellow said he acknowledged that ECans rules were having some im-pact on farm sales but he believed the wider economic climate was having a bigger impact.

The rules are needed in terms of making sure we have viable economic farming systems long term and there is no point in not having adequate rules now because of what we think it will do to farm prices.

Federated Farmers North Canterbury president Frank Brenmuhl believed new environmental limits would be unlikely to have a long term impact on the profit-ability of farms.

Mr Brenmuhl said buyers from out-side Canterbury were more likely to be put off by the new rules because they were unfamiliar with them.

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HARD WORK: Girl Guides from Prebbleton, Lincoln and Springston were busy raising money the old-fashioned way on Saturday washing cars outside the Old Manse, next to the Lincoln Union Church. Pictured, from left, are Breanna Sheat, 9, of Prebbleton, leader Stacey Skill, of Springston, Rose Williams, 10, of Prebbleton, and Romilly Sturgess, 9, of Springston. The funds raised will help the girls get to the New Zealand Jamboree in Christchurch in January. The event happens every four years and is an opportunity for girls to further develop leadership skills. They have also been raising money through grant applications and other activities. The next major fundraiser will be a quiz night at the Prebbleton Community Hall on September 26, from 7.30pm. Entry will be $10 per person and include a light supper. For more information and to book a table, phone Carolyn on 349 2245 or 021 101 0319 or [email protected]

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Five years from now, all 28 of Selwyns primary schools could have enough fruit trees planted to form a small orchard, thanks to a new grassroots initiative.

Local businesses are offering to donate 10 fruit trees or plants to each school every year for the next five years.

The project is the brain-child of Independent Signs owners Alan and Aileen Peacock who were prompted to do something to encour-age local sustainability after taking part in the Respon-sible Business Awards.

They decided they wanted to focus on healthy eating in schools after watching an episode of Campbell Live which showed Auckland children going to school without adequate lunches.

The plan was for 10 busi-

nesses to each provide 28 trees or other fruiting plants a year, with schools deciding what varieties they wanted. This was expected to cost each business about $600 a year.

Any excess fruit not need-ed by the children could be donated to food banks or elderly care facilities.

Mr Peacock said there had been a great deal of enthusi-asm from the businesses he had approached.

The Outdoor Space owners Aaron and Vicky Bartlett would be assisting schools with planting and maintaining their trees, Sicon Ferguson had offered to provide pruning services, and Hawkins Construction had expressed an interest in turning it into a nationwide initiative.

If the project was success-ful, it could be extended to the districts high schools at

the end of the five years.Lincoln Envirotown Trust

is acting as school liaison for the project. Project manager Dave Fitzjohn said that 13 schools had so far expressed an interest.

The take up is Selwyn-wide, from Prebbleton to Glentunnel, which is great, Mr Fitzjohn said.

Weedons School principal Kathy Bell said it was a great idea and the school had already worked out where the first trees would go.

We hope to have a line by the playground where parents and children walk through when they come in from the car park, which will be lovely when they blossom as well as when they have the fruit on them.

Mr Peacock said that as well as feeding children, the experience of growing the fruit would also be educa-tional.

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Representation reviewConsultation is now open on future local representation for Selwyn. The district council is proposing to retain the existing 11 council-lors and four wards, with some boundary changes. Of the two community boards, it is proposing to retain Malvern but not Selwyn Central. The changes would take effect from the 2016 elections. Submissions are open until 5pm, October 5. Forms and more information are available online at www.selwyn.govt.nz/

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BY GABRIELLE STUARTRolleston resident Gerard Smith, who was lucky to survive his first week after birth, has celebrated his 60th birthday with his triplet brother and sister.

They were born in the winter of 1955, two months premature weighing less than 10 pounds be-tween them.

Both boys were born breech, facing the wrong way.

And even after the difficult birth they were still in danger.

There was a staph aureus epi-demic at the time, which killed eight babies in Christchurch in the week the triplets were born.

But against all odds they sur-vived, and gathered back in Christchurch this week to cel-ebrate their 60th.

Gerard lives in Rolleston, but Da-vid is in Cromwell and Louise who flew into Christchurch on Thursday lives in New South Wales.

The three have not lived in the same city since they were 17, and David moved away for work.

But getting together had be-come more important to them as they got older.

As triplets they grew up with plenty of attention, were constant-ly dressed in matching clothes, and often in the local papers so Gerard said they were quite happy to be apart at first.

I thought it was quite a good thing really. We were busy being boys, so it didnt bother us.

But they have become closer as theyve grown older, and its obvi-

ous by the constant teasing how much they enjoy being together.

Louise was the oldest, because we had manners, so we said ladies first, Gerard said.

David was born last, and he has been late ever since.

I was the boss until they got bigger than me, Louise said.

But that was when we were about two years old.

She said she was always a bit of a tomboy growing up, always out

with her brothers.We put up with her we need-

ed someone to push us on the go-kart, Gerard said.

The boys looked identical grow-ing up right down to the mous-taches they both grew.

People would ask if we were all identical, and wed say of course not, our sister hasnt got a mous-tache yet, David said.

The triplets had three older sib-lings, all single births, and they

didnt know of any other multiple births in the family over at least four generations.

Their parents, Bert and Dot Smith, thought they were having twins, so the triplets were a huge surprise and a lot of work.

All those nappies! Dad used to hang them all up at night. And they used a copper to wash them in those days too, Louise said.

But there were perks to being a triplet.

The family was sent a cheque for three pounds, signed by the Queen, when the babies were born.

They had a special pram made for them, wide enough for three although it meant they had to pick their route carefully, as it was too wide for some footpaths.

But the best thing about being a triplet, David said, was hav-ing someone to blame wheth-er caught smoking at boarding school, or stealing their mothers chocolate slice.

But there were also disadvan-tages.

Its fairly awkward when you go out and someone thinks they rec-ognise you, Gerard said.

Theyll say hi and then think what a rude bugger, when you dont know who they are.

And it even has the potential to cause marriage issues.

Ive had people come to me and say is your marriage okay, I saw you out with a blonde woman, David said.

Of course, it was Gerard and his wife.

Triplets celebrate 60 years

60 YEARS: Triplets Gerard Smith, Louise Kraf and David Smith celebrated their 60th birthday in Christchurch this week. PHOTO (ABOVE): MARTIN HUNTER

BY TOM DOUDNEYThere has been no reprieve for Lake Coleridge firefighters who resigned in protest after having a key vehicle taken off them.

Six out of eight members of the Lake Coleridge Rural Fire Force had stood down but were prepared to be reinstated if the four-wheel-drive Isuzu, which has been given to the West Melton Rural Fire Force, was returned.

However, the district council has not backed down, and Chief Fire Officer Bruce Simpson and deputy chief fire officer Neil Frazer are expected to have their warrants withdrawn tomorrow.

A report for tomorrows district council meeting said the decision to transfer the vehicle from Lake Coleridge to West Melton was logical and necessary.

West Melton was responsible for a large area including the Waimakariri riverbed and regu-larly attended fires further afield, including Rolleston and the Port Hills.

The resources available to the Lake Coleridge firefighters were more than adequate for high country firefighting the report said.

Mr Simpson was not available for comment yesterday but a family member said he was disap-pointed in the district councils stance.

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The owner of Kirwee Challenge says the sentence handed down to a drunk driver who destroyed two petrol pumps is disappointing.

Hornby labourer Kaylib Dallas Kauri Moana, 18, was fined $1550 and disqualified from driving for six months after he admitted crashing into the pumps on June 6.

Kirwee Challenge owner Stuart Jones said he felt the sentence should have been harsher because of the extent of the damage, the disruption to his business and the breath alcohol level of 930mcg/L which Moana had recorded.

However, Mr Jones was also glad to have the trial over with so he could put the matter behind him.

Its all done now and you have got to move on and put it in the past. There is no point dwelling on it.

After the crash, the station was unable to sell petrol for about three weeks until a temporary pump could be put in. Even when the temporary pump was work-ing, it could not keep up with demand.

The new permanent pumps, which were installed about four weeks ago, cost $56,000 in total, and the insurance claim was still being worked through.

We hope we dont have to

go through that again, its just too hard, not only for us but the whole community, Mr Jones said.

Moana had been drinking at the Kirwee Rugby Club rooms after playing rugby at the domain. He went to the service station to buy cigarettes but lost control of the car and crashed into the pumps before fleeing the scene.

A youth who had been a pas-

senger in the car drove them back to the domain where Moana was later found by police hiding in the bushes.

Mr Jones said Moana was very lucky not to have seriously injured himself when he hit the petrol pumps.

He should really go out and buy a Lotto ticket. If he wins it, he can pay back his damage yeah right.

Moana originally pleaded not guilty to the charges of driving with excess breath-alcohol and careless driving but later changed his plea to guilty.

DAMAGE DONE: The scene at Kirwee Challenge after a car driven by Kaylib Dallas Kauri Moana destroyed the petrol pumps on June 6.

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WINNER: Averil Gledhill receives her first prize cup from Lincoln Laboratory owner Martin Bennett (AKA Professor Dodsworth) at the annual Lincoln Farmers and Crafts Market scarecrow competition, which was held on Saturday. This years competition also featured a section for people to make scarecrows on the day. First prize in that section went to Alicia Fitzpatrick.

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Love in the AsyLumThe latest exhibition showing at Little River Gallery is a duo by Canterbury

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Giving up booze for

Gday Paul, so tell me, why are you getting in the ring? Have you always been a boxer?

No my father was a boxer in the army, so Im hoping it might be bred into me but Ive never worn gloves in my life.

I was always a boxing fan, like, Id go to tournaments where I could I went to all of the Battle of the Rebuilds and the Fight for Christchurch, and a lot of the ones at working mens club theyre just a good night out, yknow.

Then the opportunities came around, and I realised this was something I wanted to do, and now its here.

Its probably the biggest thing Ive ever done in my life.

And its all about charity right?Yes my charitys Pillars its an

organisation that helps children who have got parents in prison. My partner says its brilliant to support a charity to help children

and to help families Im a very keen family man.

And youre fighting Todd Morel from Morel Construction did you know him before this?

Yeah, I did Ive done a bit of contract work for them in the past I actually called him out.

Id signed up, but (promoter) Justin Wallace couldnt find me anybody, so I gave him a couple of names of people who I knew loved their boxing, and who were the same height and same weight, and one came through, even though he is about 10 years younger than me.

Id prefer to do this and lose, than not do it at all if they didnt have anybody to fight me except a guy whos 10 times better than me, Id still do it.

How have you found the train-ing?

Its definitely challenging, and you have to feed on that. If you find any negativity there at all, you

let yourself down and you back back. In training, they always put me up against some of the strong-est guys, because of my height (Im 1.9m).

If I can get a few punches into these guys, then brilliant, because theyre probably 10 times better than Todd as well. I certainly get whacked around I gave my first nose bleed last week. I got mine done as well that was about the fourth time.

You get so fit Ive lost six or seven ki-los, and so has Todd, so that shows hes work-ing just as hard as me, if not harder. Losing weight, you can make better decisions in life.

Being off the drink as well you get up in the morning, feeling a bit better I cant wait to get back on it because Im a drinking person but youre feeling better, your

mind is just a lot better, you feel a lot clearer, you do thats why I intend to keep my fitness going.

You mentioned being off the drink I take it youre a pretty typical Irishman then?

Yeah I binge on the weekend. Youve got to have a balance in life. Youve got your kids, youve got your partner

you have to give them heaps of

time. Then you take a little time off for yourself, and

mine is drinking, with my mates. I go away on fishing trips, we just booze up and all that.

Do you catch anything?Yeah, we catch lots of trout. Well take a couple of camp-

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Ive actually been in New Zealand longer than I was in Ireland.

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52 now - and I went to London where I met my partner Justene (a Hornby girl born-and-bred). We got engaged in 1991, and were still engaged, we never went any further, but were still together weve got two grown up children here in New Zealand.

We came here in 1992 I wanted to come over here, I wanted to go further. For a lot of Irish people, London is the first step, and then they go to America, or Australia, or New Zealand wherever after that.

And you run your own busi-ness?

Yes my companys called Broomfield Quality Stoppers, and Ive been established here since 1994. I didnt know anything about plastering when I came here, and this guy said to me, you should become a Gib stopper, and I said whats that?

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course in the newspaper for Gib stopping. My partners father had given her $2000 a month before that for the wedding, when we decided to get married and we used that for the course, and still havent got married.

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My son Sean who lives in London, hes just getting over cancer. Hes 23 and he just found out about four or five months ago that he had testicular cancer, so hes had two operations and now hes fine, hes clear. Hes had it and beaten it so Im doing it for him. Im doing it for my daughter, because shes so strong shes got a lot of Irish in her. Im doing it for my partner, and Im doing it for my friends. My partners grand-father, hes 94 and he still drives hes an amazing man. Im doing it for him too, and I want to win, for all these people.

But if I dont win, Im not a sore loser. Its why Ive given up the alcohol.

If you try 100 per cent to do something; if you do the best you can, and you dont win, you still feel okay, because youve given it your all.

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The other will be a novice Womens Heavy category. This competition will be for female competitors who want to test their strength and athleticism across four traditional heavy events in-cluding the caber toss, sheaf toss, hammer throw and stone putt.

The games will celebrate its fifth birthday this year, having grown into one of the largest Scottish festivals in New Zealand.

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BY TOM DOUDNEYSt John Ellesmere has rebranded itself as it reaches the halfway point in fundraising for its new Rolleston base.

The organisation will now be known as St John Selwyn Central to better reflect the area it serves which stretches from Rolleston, Lincoln and Tai Tapu in the north to the Ellesmere ward in the south and into parts of Malvern in the west. The change had previously been signalled but has now for-mally taken effect.

Meanwhile, the organisation has raised $320,000 of the $670,000 needed for the new base on Kid-man St.

The new garage on site is ex-pected to be built by October 30 and an architect is drawing plans for the reconfiguration of an exist-ing house on site into staff quarters and community meeting rooms.

Generation Homes will man-age the reconfiguration and staff are expected to move in early next month.

St John Selwyn Central chair-man John Sunckell said fundrais-ing had taken a number of forms, from sausage sizzles to donation boxes placed in Rolleston busi-nesses to grants.

A recent presentation at the dis-trict council chambers was attend-ed by 60 people from the Rolleston business community.

Mr Sunckell said the night had been very successful.

We have had a number of pledges of support from this event to date but of equal impor-tance was the networking that was achieved and the knowledge that people will talk to others about the project, he said.

We were delighted to have Terry Etwell with us to bring a hu-man face to our work. Terry, after suffering chest pain, had a cardiac

arrest this time last year and was able to talk about what it meant to him and his family to be there and talking about it, having been defi-brillated and brought back.

Major donations so far have in-cluded $50,000 from the Canter-bury Community Trust, $20,000 from Selwyns Mayoral Relief Fund and $5000 from the Selwyn Cen-tral Community Board.

GRATITUDE: St John Selwyn Central chairman John Sunckell with Rolleston resident Terry Etwell, whose life was saved by St John.

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HAPPY DAY: The St John Darfield area committee, ambulance crews and youth division members celebrate the opening of their new ambulance station.

After five years operating from a variety of makeshift offices, St John Malvern finally has a new ambulance station in Darfield.

The new station on Bray St was opened with a ceremony attended by Selwyn MP Amy Adams on Saturday.

The September 2010 earthquake had destroyed the previous build-ing in North Tce, forcing ambu-lance crews and youth cadets to use other Darfield buildings for training and office space.

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mal training and other operations to continue.

The garage was unscathed by the earthquake, meaning St John was able to continue storing its two ambulances there during the five years.

The new building is the first earthquake stricken St John build-ing to be rebuilt.

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Koru GamesToday to Thursday, various timesThe Koru Games is a South

Island year 7 and 8 sports tourna-ment hosted over three days at sev-eral venues around Selwyn. Sports played include basketball, football, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, swimming, table tennis, touch and volleyball.

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Green FootprintFriday, 10amHelp plant 600 native plants and

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Weedons Spring StampedeSunday, from 8.45amA family friendly running and

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Weedons Domain, Maddisons Rd. Entry is $15 for adults, $10 for children.

Daffodil Open DaySunday, 1-3pmAn Ellesmere Community Care

fundraiser. Pick your own daffodils from hundreds of varieties grow-ing on more than 6ha. For more information phone 324 3684. If wet, the event will be postponed to September 20.

44 Bluetts Road, Leeston. Admission $5, children under five free.

BY TOM DOUDNEYTurning Selwyn childrens dreams into reality is the project brief for a group of Lincoln University students.

The Future Leader scholars are running the My Town project to help one group of children bring to life their vision for something they want to see created in their community.

A childrens maze in Leeston and a programme to establish stronger relationships between Darfield High School students

and the local elderly are among a number of proposals which have been put forward by children after a series of workshops were held at schools around the district.

Other ideas included estab-lishing a community garden in Darfield and sprucing up picnic tables in public parks.

The children will present their proposals at a public event at the Lincoln University students din-ing hall on Friday.

A judging panel including Selw-yn MP Amy Adams and Lincoln

University chancellor Tom Lam-bie will pick one of the proposals to receive funding and guidance from Future Leader scholars.

The event will double as a fun-draiser, with adults paying $15 for entry. There will also be games, drinks and snack food available.

My Town is part of the Future Leader Lend a Hand initiative, which was established in 2011 to support local and national causes.

The initiative has previously focused mainly on events like the World Record Gumboot Throw,

Shave to Save and the Youthline Charity Auction, raising more than $100,000 over the past four years.

The childrens presentation will take place in the Lincoln University students dining hall on Friday at 6pm. Tickets are $15 and can be bought from the univer-sitys recreation centre or any of these schools: Ellesmere College, Darfield High School, Leeston School, Lincoln Primary School, Springston School, West Melton School and Ladbrooks School.

IN CHARACTER: Clearview School pupils, from left, Brenna, Holly, Izzy, Amy, Jasmine and Maddie, all dressed as fairies for a book week fancy dress day. The school held a series of book-related activities during the week.

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A Lincoln University lecturer wants to trial a programme that would introduce bicycles for hire on campus and eventually the rest of Selwyn.

The idea is similar to a bicycle share project recently launched in Christchurchs Central Business District in an effort to make the city more cycle-friendly.

Tourism, sport and society de-partment lecturer Dr Catherine El-liot is keen to initiate a rural version of the scheme throughout Selwyn.

She is seeking funding for an initial scheme facilitating travel around the university campus and between Prebbleton and Lincoln.

Students and staff, as well as local residents, could use the bikes to travel on and off campus, Dr Elliot said.

Many folks commute to Lincoln

in a car or take the bus, so having bikes on campus is a great way of encouraging people to cycle for short and medium distances.

The bikes would be available to the wider community too, so

families could enjoy weekend rides on the Little River Rail Trail.

Dr Elliot said she had received positive feedback from the district councils transportation and recre-ation departments.

Thank you for the fantastic cover-age you gave Look Good Feel Bet-ter (Creating smiles for cancer pa-tients, the Selwyn Times, July 21) we had a phenomenal Feel Better month with so many New Zealand-ers generously helping to raise an astounding $172,053 throughout July, helping women like Miretta, who featured in your story.

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Look Good Feel Better is cur-rently operating in 33 locations na-tionwide.

The funds raised in July will allow Look Good Feel Better to continue to develop programmes in new ar-eas throughout New Zealand, with the aim that no one will need to

travel more than 30 minutes to a class from home.

These workshops are specially designed to give patients confi-dence, lift their spirits and gain a sense of normality during cancer treatment.

Were aware that on average, 1860 Kiwis were diagnosed with cancer during Feel Better month alone.

On behalf of Look Good Feel Better and our participants, thank you for your generosity.

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LOOKING BACK

BUSINESS OF BEES: A beehive demonstration at Hundred Hive Apiary, Lakeside, in 1913. Heritage photos supplied by Selwyn Libraries. If you have any information about this photo, please contact the library via www.selwynlibrary.co.nz

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FIRST WEEK:Zoe Wright and Parley Johnston started at West Melton Primary School last week.

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GRASSROOTS SPORT

CONTACT: Broadfields Caroline Miller jostles for position with Rollestons Nicole Davidson.

SCANNING: Bubba Taurua looks for a team mate to pass the ball to.

CLASH: Amanda Brown and Bubba Taurua both get air-borne battling for the ball.

BATTLE: (Left) Karen Opie tries to grab the ball as Neena Woodgate leaps to intercept it.

FOCUS: Gemma Odering about to shoot with attention from a Rolleston defender.

GOT IT: Lauren Robb hauls in a high pass in her sides win.

Rolleston will face Lincoln in the Selwyn netball final this weekend. The final will be at the Lincoln Event Centre on Saturday, starting at 10.30am. Lincoln beat Halswell RL A 64-31 in their semi-final while Rolleston came through a tougher match against Broadfield, winning 54-45. PHOTOS: KAREN CASEY

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CHAMPIONS: Leeston have won Mainland Footballs mens presidents B league. The team finished the season on top of the table on 48 points, with 16 wins, three losses and no draws. They were three points clear of second-placed Nomads United. Leeston beat Hurunui Rangers 4-0 in their last game of the season at Irwells Sudeley Park. PHOTO: THERESA BROWN

Will Heiler controls the ball for the West Melton hockey team in their game against St Albans during the recent Primary Sports Canterbury Winter Sports Tournament. West Melton lost 2-1. The tournament featured 84 schools and 1950 children from across the region competing in rugby, netball, hockey and football. Two Selwyn Schools Darfield Primary and Kirwee achieved top three and four placings at the tournament. Darfield were second in the junior A netball competition and fourth for junior hockey, while Kirwee were third equal in junior rugby. PHOTO: ALEXANDER VANE

Ellesmere Golf Club - Satur-days results

A four ball teams stableford competition was held for men and ladies.

Stu Chamberlain, Ted Mikiel, Jason McMillan and Bruce Mc-Millan, 128 points, 1; Paul War-ren, George Franklin, Betty Os-borne, and Diane Boon, 125, 2; Gary McGill, John Templeton,

Roo Beldham, and Roger Boon, 117, 3.

Twos: No 2 George Frank-lin; No 11 Max Ferris. No 14 George Franklin, Stu Chamber-lain.

Nett Eagle Jackpot: No 12, not struck.

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Dual-purpose creeping thymeBY TOD PALENSKI

Im a big fan of plants that do more than one thing. For example, fragrant sweet peas are great for cut flowers and have a fantastic scent too. Laven-der looks and smells lovely and also attracts bees.

And one of my favourite dual-pur-pose herbs is wild creeping thyme. It tastes and can be used in just the same way as regular thyme but its also excellent grown as ground cover or lawn.

Unlike standard thyme, which grows up, creeping thyme spreads out along the ground making it per-fect for filling in gaps in your garden or lawn. All it needs is some well-drained soil in full sun to light shade.

When youve found the right spot for your creeping thyme, also known as wandering thyme grab some seedlings and simply plant around 20-30cm apart from each other.

You can harvest your thyme straight away but its best to give it some time to get established. The longer you leave it, the more leaves youll have to harvest later on. Then in spring and after flowering, give it a prune to help maintain its compact appearance.

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If youre after a little colour in your garden this spring, or a lot for that matter, look no further than lovely alyssum.

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While I enjoy looking at these blooms in the garden, I do pick them for the vase as well. Everything I plant has to be multipurpose, in that they have to look good in the garden and last in a vase for a few days. Why plant something you cant pick?

All of these blooms are happy in a vase, and last a number of days if placed somewhere away from direct sunlight from the windows. Often, I cant

resist the temptation to pick a few blooms, not because I need to, but because I can.

Starting at ground level are the carpets of snowdrops (Galanthus sp.). These magical little bulbs, appear from nowhere under the layers of leaf litter and mulch to light up the dark garden paths and edges. I liken them to fairy lights; they feather the skirts of the rhododendrons and hydrangeas that hover above them. Nestled in beside them are the most fragrant white jonquils. These miniature-looking daffodils have a punchy perfume.

Next up are the fairy primroses (Primula malacoides) and rosebud polyanthus. Both of these are blended together to create the petticoats between the garden floor and the taller shrubs around them.

The primroses are annuals and rarely self-seed, so each season new ones are planted out in autumn. The rosebud polys are perennials and come back to bloom again each season. These are exceptional value as they bulk up over summer and are easily divided and poked into new pockets all around the garden.

Above these layers sit the skirts of hellebores. Originally, all-white ones were planted, but as the new

seedlings begin to flower the tones vary a little from pure-white through to pale pinks, purple and plum tones.

Then there are the two major ivory anchors of white, Camellia japonica hybrid, which we havent been able to name. It sits under the 25m regal pin oak. The stately tree offers the slightest protection to the blooms from frost, so the petals never brown off and deteriorate.

Next to it sits the star magnolia (Magnolia stellata). This super-bushy shrub-cum-small tree is cloaked in fragrant white flowers that burst open from its velvet-looking, furry buds. Over winter, the buds have been quietly fattening up, ready to take the limelight as soon as the soils warm a smidge.

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