wanaka sun | 16 - 22 july 2015 | edition 722

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SOAR musical a success

Hickey joins the Warbirds team

Volunteering in Vanuatu

As part of new TV series The Game Chef, Angelo Georgalli has been catching and cooking delicious dishes around the Wanaka region.

The recent cold snap has been causing havoc in Wanaka homes with pipes freezing and bursting across town.

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everal “affordable” houses will soon be available in Wanaka, and the Queens-town Lakes Community Housing Trust

(QLCHT) is holding an information evening (July 30) to gauge demand. The trust currently has about 30 Wanaka families on its waiting list for housing in Wanaka, and about 250 more elsewhere in the district.

“The demand for affordable housing is much lower in Wanaka than it is in Queenstown,” said trust executive officer Julie Scott. “In Luggate you can get a house for less than $300,000, whereas at Lake Hayes Estate you can’t get anything for less than about $600,000. We are having the information evening to find out if

people in Wanaka know about us and if there is much demand [for the trust’s assistance].”

The trust offers several packages including a Shared Ownership one where it buys 15 to 40 percent of a house, and the actual householder raises the other 60 to 85 percent (through a deposit and mortgage). In the long-term the aim is that the householder will buy the trust out, when they can afford to.

Wanaka Community Networks manager Kate Murray said there is definitely a need for more affordable housing in the Upper Clutha. “There are young families in the area who would like assistance of this kind,” she said. “It’s a great concept.”

QLCHT is looking at buying several of the proposed Kirimoko Cottages, in the Kirimoko

Park development (north of Aubrey Road and east of Rata Street). The houses start at $415,000 for a two-bedroom house or $465,000 for three bedrooms, and would be suitable for the trust’s Shared Ownership package.

QLCHT was set up in 2007 to “manage and deliver affordable housing solutions to those vital to the community who cannot afford it”. It was created by the council after research showed 50 percent of people who moved to the district left after 12-18 months due to high living costs, particularly the cost of housing.

The trust is now an independent, non-profit organisation with five trustees including Wanaka-based Peter Southwick. It currently has about a dozen Shared Ownership houses in Wanaka.

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A redback spider living in a pile of firewood startled Cromwell resident Malcolm Rees-Frances last week.

The poisonous spider was accidently carried into the house on a piece of firewood before being discovered.

Mr Rees-Frances, who is the winemaker at Rockburn, lives in Cromwell with his family and says this is not the first redback he has encountered.

“I have previously found a family of them living in a barrel in the garden just before Easter, so I knew they were around. I took photos of them and we studied them very closely. They are definitely red-backs. They’ve been in the vineyards for years but it is a bit worrying having them around the house.”

Mr Rees-Frances said he would be examining every piece of firewood very carefully from now on.

“It is concerning as we’ve got two young boys. We’ll just have to hope we get some white tail spiders soon – they eat redbacks.”

The redback spider is native to Australia. It is easily recognisable by its black body with prominent reddish-orange stripe on its abdomen.

Scientists believe redback spiders have been residing in Central Otago since the 1980s. They are less common during the colder winter months.

The spider has venom that is toxic to people and bites can cause severe pain.

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Anyone interested in some advice on local tramps is invited to at-tend the Upper Clutha Tramping Club (UCTC) information evening at the Wanaka Library tonight (Thursday July 16, 5.30-6.30pm). Both novice and experienced trampers will be welcome, whether they want to join the club or just get some information about good winter tramps.

Current club president Rod Macleod said the 50-member club runs day trips in the winter and day and overnight trips during the

summer months. Trips are graded so people get an idea of how demanding they will be.

During his four years in the club Rod has been on overnight tramps into the Albert Burn, Wilkin and Cameron Creek valleys, and climbed many of the skyline peaks in the Upper Clutha. He said the club is keen to get some younger members and “do some more adventurous trips”.

Pictured: UCTC members near Rabbit Pass in the Wilkin Valley on a trip earlier this year.

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Some Makarora residents fear the closure of the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) Makarora Visitor Centre is pending, although this is based on “hearsay and rumour”.

DOC has invited all Makarora residents and businesses to an information session about the DOC centre next Tuesday (July 21). DOC Wanaka’s acting partnership manager Annette Grieve said there are no plans to remove staff or the centre from the area.

“The meeting is about the future of the visitor centre,” she said. “We are going to the commu-nity with an open mind to hear what they have to say.”

Since the restructuring of DOC (particularly since 2013), employees (present and former) and interested parties are reluctant to speak out pub-lically about what the department is doing. Off the record, Makarora locals express incredulity at the ongoing rumours of the pending closure of the visitor centre “on the doorstep of a Unesco World Heritage site [South West New Zealand] in a country with a rapidly growing future in tour-ism”. Others wonder what DOC’s Conservation Partnership Group, with its mission to “achieve conservation growth through partnerships”, would like to happen at Makarora.

DOC currently has two rangers based at Ma-karora. In the summer they are busy with field work such as hut and track maintenance and in

the winter they do more “front-country” work, Annette said, including maintaining carparks, camping grounds and short walks such as the Blue Pools walk.

DOC facilities in Makarora include a house, two units and the visitor centre. The centre is open during the five summer months and includes an interpretation room with informa-tion about local walks and tramps. Historically Makarora locals have been employed as tempo-rary rangers at the centre.

Makarora Tourist Centre director Rhondda Osmers said: “We suspect they are going to close the DOC visitor centre. They talked about it last year but didn’t, which was great.” Rhondda said closing the centre would be bad for Makarora. “I’m totally freaked out. We’re really busy and it’s the whole safety aspect. We don’t have the information trampers want. It would be very detrimental considering the number of trampers we get through here, especially in the summer. Trampers will come to us [at the Tourist Centre] wanting information and we have nothing to do with running the national park.”

Rhondda said about 70 people live in Makaro-ra, which spreads about 10km along the highway.

The Makarora Tourist Centre was set up by her late husband Dave in 1959 and she joined him in 1974. The centre now includes a café, shop, bar, restaurant and cabins.

“It’s usually very busy in summer and dead in the winter,” she said. “It’s scary. It’s always a guessing game in tourism.”

Meeting on future of DOC centreMakarora residents concerned over rumours of closure

Fundraising efforts for Nepal are continuing in Wanaka with a dinner at Federal Diner on Tuesday (July 21, 6.30pm). Chef Brona Parsons will be rattling her pans to create a sumptuous two-course meal, served with lash-ings of wine for $75 per person. The MC will be Calum McLeod and the speakers include Adventure Consultants director Guy Cotter and moun-tain guide Mike Roberts – both of whom were in Nepal when the April 25 earthquake struck, killing more than 9,000 people and injuring more than 23,000. A major aftershock occurred on May 12 killing another 200 people and injuring more than 2,500.

The evening will include a fundraising auction and money raised will go to the Himalayan Trust. Tickets can be purchased at the Diner or online.

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The youth section of the NZ Mountain Film Festival’s photography competition attracted a record number of entries this year and judges were very impressed with the quality of the work submitted. The section was won by Ollie Larkin of Queensbury, Helena Cook of Christchurch came second and Wanaka’s Daisy

Thor-Poet came third. Entrants to both the youth

and overall sections had to submit five photographs which captured “the essence of the people, places and adventure lifestyles of Lake Wanaka and the festival”.

The overall winner was Mickey Ross, from Wanaka, who received $500 and another local, Barbara Lee won the special prize of a Lumix camera.

Silent auctions held during the festival raised $4,000 for its grants scheme. The grants will support young people wanting to do outdoor adventure filmmaking or training, environmental projects, and disabled people wanting to get into the outdoors. Applications close on October 30. The festival is a not-for-profit charitable organisation which receives funding from QLDC,

Lake Wanaka Tourism, Otago Community Trust, Sargood Trust, Skycity Queenstown, Community Trust of South-land and others. Support also comes in the form of donations from benefactors, patrons and friends of the festival.

A selection of award-winning films from the festival will be shown at the Lake Hawea Community Centre on August 28.

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After a rainy debut Wanaka’s second night market last Thursday entertained locals and visitors alike, with the clear weather making a “mas-sive difference to crowds”, according to Wanaka Commu-nity Trust events co-ordinator Rebecca Brosnahan.

“It made a huge difference to our stallholders – most of them sold out,” said Rebecca. And stall numbers are due to rise too, with around 20 stalls booked for this evening’s

market (up from 14 last Thurs-day). Mount Aspiring College buskers will be providing entertainment.

Last Thursday saw a wide variety of stalls: “We had everything from home-made chutney, patisse-ries and bread to the best Italian hot chocolate in the world and exquisite silver jewellery.”

But more are always welcome. “The more the merrier,” Rebecca said. “We want every crafty, creative type to come out of the woodwork and

showcase their work or food.” The Wanaka Night Market

runs Thursdays from 4pm to 7.30pm and is located

along Bullock Creek (adjacent to Speights Ale House and Franc-esca’s).

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This month I would like to look at one of the key inputs of any business and that is labour. A lot of focus around labour these days seems to concentrate on employee / employer rights together with Health and Safety issues. I agree it is important to have an employment agreement and a safe workplace with policies and protocols in place that protect workers but there is also the financial aspect of labour.

Whether you are involved in hospitality, construction, retail or a service industry one of the key aspects all businesses need to know is the true cost of labour. Businesses need to get things done. To get things done we need people. Labour is generally the biggest component of most, if not all, businesses. We find it can make up anything from 20 to 60% of turnover.

Let’s look at an example employee, Romeo who is working as a builder’s labourer for Juliet. Romeo is also a member of KiwiSaver and is pres-ently being paid $17.00 per hour.

Romeo’s base annual salary cost for a 40 hour week is $35,360. Add to this the cost of ACC that Juliet has to pay each year at $2.55 per $100 of gross wage equates to a further cost of $862 per annum. On top of this the KiwiSaver employer contribution at 3% or $1,061 per annum. Over an entire year Romeo is costing Juliet $37,283 pa.

Now let’s look at what Romeo is doing for Juliet. Romeo is entitled to four weeks annual leave. In addition to the annual leave there are 11 annual statutory days and up to 5 days annual sick leave. Over the period of a typical year Romeo is not on the tools for just over 7 weeks. This means Romeo will work 1792 hours per annum over 224 work days. Given he is also taking half an hour per day for rest breaks or what used to be known as “smoko” meaning there are another 112 hours not worked on a yearly basis.

This is where the maths bit fits into the equation. If you take the true cost to Juliet of $37,283 divided by the number of hours worked

per annum being 1680 the hourly rate equates to $22.19. This is 30% more than the $17.00 per hour face value that Juliet thinks she is paying Romeo.

The cost per hour continues to climb if Juliet doesn’t recover a full 8 hours per day from Romeo. For example only charging seven hours per day will see the average cost shift to $25.60.

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If the mid-winter chill factor is making you reluctant to leave home (or even your bed), we’ve got some news that might just lure you out into the open: Café Gusto is under new management and has an amazing revamped all-day breakfast menu boasting dishes like potato and thyme rosti stack with aoraki smoked salmon and herbed creme fraiche and of course the best Eggs Benni in town - guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart. Pair this with freshly squeezed to order vitamin-loaded fresh juices to keep winter nasties at bay or the best coffee in town and you have the makings of a perfect day.

New owners, Tyla and Cameron, bring to the table oodles of experience in the food and hospitality industry, and they’re super psyched to be embarking on their newest adventure here

in the beautiful surrounds of Wanaka. They bring a passion for both food and this spectacular corner of the world to the new Café Gusto menu, and the results won’t disappoint.

So, go on. Give in to temptation, rug up in your coat and hat, and pop in for a visit. Whether you need to fuel up before a day up the mountain, a cosy place with a view of the lake and mountains to catch up with friends, or somewhere to take the kids for bribery hot chocolates, Café Gusto has you covered.

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Although there’s really no such thing as ‘preservative free’ when it comes to wine, those of you haven’t put down your wine glasses during Dry July might be interested to know a little bit more about other ways to detoxify this month.

Preservative agents occur naturally in wine. When you see a label marked “preservative free” it really means that there are no added preservatives, the nasties that some researchers believe lead to headaches and allergic reac-tions.

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Wanaka’s musical stage production SOAR performed five shows at the Lake Wanaka Centre last weekend.

“It was a spectacular showcase of energy, passion for performance, superb stagecraft and the enormous talent we have in Wanaka with a fantastic combination of dance and vocal abil-ity shining alongside each other,” said directors and creators Jenn Shelton and Rachel Erichsen.

SOAR is an annual event that locals can

audition to be part of. This year’s show saw a diverse range of music and dancing styles keeping the audience on their toes.

“We are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication the cast of 34 Wanaka locals of all ages put in to the show,” said Jenn and Rachel.

“It is such a rewarding experience to see it all come together and for our audience to be so wowed and entertained,” they said.

Musical SOARs to new heightsSome of the SOAR cast performing at the Lake Wanaka Centre last weekend

The Guardians of Lake Dunstan have kick-started the crusade against the spread of lagarosiphon with their inaugural meeting next Wednesday (July 22).

The meeting is for anyone inter-ested in controlling the noxious lake weed and will be held at the Lowburn Hall at 7.30pm.

The group will also elect a formal committee and a repre-sentative to go forward to the Lake Dunstan Management Commit-tee. “It is the intention of the guard-ians group to promote the overall health of Lake Dunstan - not only the lake weed - for the use of the lake by all interested groups including water sports, fishing and swimming. We are keen to see all of the lake in pristine condi-

tion for the benefit of all users,” said Guardians of Lake Dunstan spokesman Andrew Burton. “Initially our focus will be on major areas of lake weed control but we also intend to focus on water quality.”

Cromwell boaties were alarmed at the current rate of lagarosiphon growth around the shores of Lake Dunstan this summer.

“Eradication of the weed is not possible with current available tools but we will do everything we can to control the weed,” said Andrew. “It is vitally important for boaties to realise that this weed is not in all lakes yet so we will also continue to encourage all lake users, by education, to prevent the spread to other waterways.”

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Chef Angelo Georgalli has been cooking up a storm around Wanaka. As part of new TV series The Game Chef, Angelo has been catching and cooking delicious dishes in various locations around the region.

A seasoned fisherman and hunter, Angelo uses his archery skills to hunt animals with a bow and arrow. He then cooks his catch using simple and creative recipes.

The show’s debut episode saw Angelo cooking some beauti-ful fresh salmon on the shores of Lake Hawea.

“It’s what I do,” explains Angelo. “I hunt with a bow and I cook and I’ve been doing that for a long time.

“I loved filming the show. I love getting into the hills, up the rivers, fishing and hunting and I’ve been cooking for 25 years. So to be filmed doing what you love is a great feeling. I’m sharing my most prized passions with the world.”

Angelo moved from Auckland to Wanaka almost two years ago and the stunning local landscape features prominently in his new show.

“It was filmed in December all within the Wanaka region, places like Cardrona, the Makarora River, Lake Hawea and Matukituki Valley. The landscape was a huge part of it. There aren’t many cooking shows that have such an amazing back-drop,” said Angelo.

The Game Chef is the brainchild of Angelo and Jonathon Ulrich – who produced, directed, shot and edited the show.

“We wanted to create a cooking show that appealed to families,” said Jonathon. “Angelo has three kids and is very family orientated. A lot of his inspiration comes from his child-hood and he wanted to make simple recipes that weren’t too complex and introduce hunting, fishing and cooking for the whole family.

“The great thing about the show is that Angelo is living here, he hunts, he fishes, he cooks, so it ticks all the boxes for him. This show isn’t made up. We’re not just doing it for TV. Angelo does all of these things in real life.”

The next episode is on this Saturday at 4.30pm on TV ONE and this week Angelo will be be tackling rabbit.

“I’m half Italian and half Greek, so a few of the dishes on the show are Greek and Italian, plus there are some classic Kiwi dishes,” said Angelo.

“The great thing about rabbit is there are so many of them and it’s such an awesome meat to eat and not a lot of people take advantage of it. Hopefully these dishes will inspire people to go out and shoot their own rabbits and start using that meat.”

Fans of the show will be glad to hear that Angelo is already eager to get started on a second series and is also producing a cookbook, due to hit shelves this Father’s Day, so that people can follow all of The Game Chef recipes at home.

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Chef Angelo Georgalli cooks up a salmon burger during filming at Glen Dene Station, Lake Hawea.

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The recent cold snap has been causing havoc in Upper Clutha homes with pipes freezing and burst-ing across the region.

Temperatures plummeted this week with the Wanaka region experiencing lows of between -5 and -7 °C on Sunday and Monday, according to reports from MetService.

Wanaka resident Claire MacDonald arrived home from work on Monday evening to discover the water pipes above her bathroom had burst and fallen through the ceiling.

“When I got home water was pouring down the driveway,” said Claire.“A bedroom and our hallway were completely saturated. The main damage was to the carpets and

some clothes, and water was dripping from the lights.“While the humidifiers are drying out the house we’ve been advised to stay out of it, and that

could be until the weekend. The kitchen is the only part of the house that was untouched but we’ve got no running water in it.”

Brendan Jarvie of Jarvie Plumbing told the Wanaka Sun they have been very busy dealing with pipe problems all winter, with an extra spike in calls with this week’s cold conditions.

“We’ve had around 100 calls with burst pipes this winter,” said Brendan. “We’ve stopped counting at this stage. We have one full-time member of staff dedicated to it.”

Brendan said a range of homes and businesses in Wanaka have been affected and advised people to take extra care this winter.

“If the property is going to be vacant, people need to isolate their water and drain the house out completely,” advised Mr Jarvie.

A member of staff at JAE services, which specialises in flood restoration, also confirmed that they had been extremely busy this week.

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Three Hawea 10-year-old girls, Kiara Bercelli, Aneka Rossiter and Aimee Harrold, were among a group of 14 children who enjoyed an outing to the skate park on Tuesday afternoon. They were participants in Com-munity Networks’ School Holiday Club. The outing was supervised by Emily Wilson who has been employed by the club “on and off” for four years.

“I absolutely love it,” Emily said. “We try to do things in the commu-nity and have lots of fun. I like to get them active and they love move-ment. And they are so much better behaved after some action.”

Emily said it was great to have some girls at the skate park, which is usually the domain of boys. “They’ve all improved so much in just one session,” she said. When she’s not involved with the club Emily runs games programmes in schools for the council, teaches swimming and helps out with after-school programmes.

The School Holiday Club finishes a fortnight’s action with an urban version of The Amazing Race today and a glow stick bingo party tomorrow.

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Jenny’s experience is diverse hav-ing worked across the educational and community sectors for many years.

She trained as a teacher in England but soon headed overseas for Papua New Guinea on Voluntary Service and arrived in New Zealand in 1975.

Since then she has worked as a teacher of students with learning and behavioural challenges, before completing her psychologists train-ing and heading into the Ministry of Education as a registered psycholo-gist.

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Kiwi personality Jim Hickey (pictured) - best known for his role as TVNZ weatherman - will re-join the commentary team at Warbirds Over Wanaka (WOW) International Airshow in 2016.

Jim first attended WOW back in 1996 as a visi-tor. From 1998 to 2012 he was a commentator at the event and, after taking a break in 2014, Jim’s back for next year’s show.

“I’m very excited about being involved in Warbirds Over Wanaka once again,” Jim said. “It’s one of the great Warbirds air shows in the world, and being part of the commentary team is an honour for me.”

Jim will be joined by fellow commentators Grant Stewart and Craig (Ferg) Ferguson, a Queenstown pilot and local broadcaster respec-tively. They will make up the Bose Commentary Team, with Grant and Jim “anchoring” the show

and Ferg interviewing attendees.Jim retired in late 2014 after working as the

senior weathercaster at TVNZ from 1988 until 2003, and again from 2007 until his retirement last year.

Jim is also a pilot. In 2002 and 2003 he hosted television series A Flying Visit, where he visited interesting and remote parts of New Zealand in a Cessna 182 aircraft. Jim’s father, who had flown Spitfires in Burma during World War Two, also appeared on the show. Needless to say, he has valuable aviation knowledge.

“I believe the role of the commentary team is to complement what’s happening in the sky,” Jim said. “An air show is all about the aircraft and the pilots and our job is to relate the history and stories around these magnificent men and their flying machines.”

Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow, which has run biennially since 1988, will run March 25-27, 2016.

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With the generous support of local organisations and her business, local optometrist Tui Homer visited Vanuatu in October last year and pro-vided voluntary optometry to those in need.

Tui, owner of Central Vision Optometry here in Wanaka, visited the Lelepa and Ifira islands. While close in distance to the capital of Port Villa, the islands are remarkably isolated both economically and medically, meaning the need for medical care was vast, said Tui.

“Much of the medical need was based around a simple lack of supplies,” said Tui.

Many of the people had simple presbyopia – a type of far-sight-edness that is typically a result of ageing. The condition is common in people over 40.

While here, glasses are a simple solution, lack of medical access and funds meant that the condition was having severe consequences for the people of Vanuatu. Many could no longer do handiwork or read.

“The sheer joy of handing someone reading glasses, restoring that ability to read we all take for granted, and seeing their faces light up - that’s what makes you keep going back,” Tui said.

Other sight issues included far and short-sightedness and common eye diseases such as

pterygium and cataracts, which are usually easy to treat with the right medical expertise.

Tui was accompanied by a medical team including a doctor, two dentists, a physiothera-pist and some non-specialist volunteers. The trip was run by Marine Reach, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing medical care to nations on the Asia-Pacific rim.

In her two weeks in Vanuatu, Tui saw between 40 and 60 patients per day.

The team spent the evenings in the villages getting to know the

local people and more about the culture and history. Tui handed out sunglasses, stickers and school stationery, all donated by the Wanaka community. “I especially

loved giving the stickers to the children and telling them they were

from the children in Wanaka.” It was Tui’s first trip to Vanuatu as a

voluntary optometrist, but before this she had visited Fiji twice, providing optometry to remote outer-lying islands.

“It was a challenging trip but ultimately incredibly rewarding,” said Tui.

Central Vision Optometry has just purchased a Maestro 3D Optical Coherence Tomographer - a piece of advanced technology equipment which has previously not been available in rural areas such as Wanaka. For the rest of 2015, one dollar from each eye exam with the new equipment will be donated to the relief effort in Vanuatu.

Optometrist helps VanuatuMaddy Harker

Wanaka Sun

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Pictured: Tui looking for cataracts and other sun related eye issues in a local fisherman.

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The Wanaka Sun’s website and social media sites are going from strength to strength.

Our circulation figures have been given a massive boost as we are now delivering over 10,000 Wanaka Suns online each week, with the website - www.thewanakasun.co.nz - getting over 1000 hits every day.

And that number is expected to grow with the addition of a new Snow Reports section.

Snow Reports LIVE lets you stay ahead with the very latest news on the weather, snow and road conditions, with updates from Wanaka’s three dedicated ski areas as well as great heli-skiing options.

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This month, I’m trying something new to reduce the waste our house-hold makes: Plastic Free July. Plastic Free July started in Perth, and has caught on in New Zealand and across Australia. The idea is to avoid taking home any single-use plastic for the month – even recyclable plastic.

Why bother? Well, because every bit of plastic produced remains somewhere on the earth today. And so many bits of plastic we use are designed to be used only once for a few minutes and then discarded.

I recently talked to a scientist from Massey University who said it’s com-mon to find plastic in the stomachs of dead turtles. That made all the stories about the impact of plastic on the marine environment much more real for me.

What I’ve found out so far is the busier and the more spontaneous you are, the more plastic you use. Travelling without buying food in plastic is pretty much impossible un-less you take half your pantry along. Buying some nibbles to take to apres-ski drinks involves lots of plastic too, unless you want to use up all your ski time making food from scratch. And even just putting together a lunch for the mountain involves a lot more thought and planning if you’re trying not to buy food wrapped in plastic.

But I’ve had some wins too. The thing that’s stood out for me are how helpful people in shops have been when I’ve told them that I’m trying to avoid plastic packaging. From the supermarket to the organic stores, everyone has gone out of their way to find a solution.

So far I’ve bought a bulk box of chicken necks, weighed fruit and vegetables loose, refilled my own bags with nuts and made my own crackers. That proved to be a bit more successful with my family than the rehydrating dried milk to avoid buying 2 litre plastic containers (that got the thumbs down)!

I’m keeping a blog on the Wanaka Wastebusters website, so if you think you might be tempted to try it next year, have a read. You don’t have to be perfect, in fact you learn as much from the failures as from the times you succeed in being plastic free.

The interesting thing for me is that we’ve hardly made any rubbish this month. That’s because nearly all our rubbish is plastic packaging. I’m sure I’ll take away some good new habits from this month which will help keep our rubbish bin emptier in the future. And when I do buy things in plastic, it will be a conscious choice rather than because I’ve never thought about whether I really needed it.

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Nine Wanaka homes have won awards in the Southern Registered Master Builders 2015 House of the Year competition, including the Supreme Award for Southern House of the Year.

The Breen Construction Company took out four regional awards with their winning Wanaka home, including a Gold Award and category win for the Westpac New Home over $2 million award and the Supreme Award for 2015 House of the Year.

The Breen Construction Company’s win-ning build impressed judges, who called the home a “complex structure executed to a very high standard”.

Wanaka construction firm Turnkey Homes also made its mark, winning three gold awards at the event. Dunlop Builders, Stonewood

Homes Ltd and Landmark Homes Central Otago also scooped prizes for their Wanaka houses.

The winners were revealed at a gala dinner on Saturday July 11 at the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill. The winning builders were recog-nised by members of the Southern Registered Master Builders Association and members of the local building industry.

There were 21 Gold Award winners from the Southern region which will now be eligible for the National Gold Reserve finalists, to be announced in September.

National category winners and the Regis-tered Master Builders Supreme Awards for Renovation of the Year and House of the Year will be announced at a gala dinner in Auck-land in November.

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Wanaka houses bring home awardsThe Breen Construction Company’s award-winning home in Wanaka

Saying no to single-use plastic


Due to overwhelming demand, advertisements have been missed out due to the number of people wanting to advertise.Locals recognise that this is the best place to get the most exposure, and over the past 218 weeks we have

given the community thousands of free classifieds.The free classifieds will now be reserved for the free trade and exchange of anything of a NON-COMMERCIAL nature.From now on, commercial users of this page need

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MAT PILATES term starting on 20th July. Beginner/intermediate classes. Great complement to skiing, biking, run-ning. Call/text 0212078486

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WANAKA YACHT Club Inc annual gen-eral meeting 7 PM on Wednesday 29th of July at the clubrooms Lakeside Road, Wanaka. Apologies to [email protected]

WANAKA SALVATION Army Family Store Opening Hours - Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9.30am-4pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

DONATIONS KINDLY received. Please drop into the store or for larger items phone the Salvation Army Family Store on 03 443 5068

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BUSINESS NETWORKING International. The Wanaka chapter of BNI meets weekly at 7am Tuesday morning. Great networking opportunity to grow your business. Contact Rudy for information 027 703 4037

WANAKA PRIMARY School ‘Op Shop’ open Tues & Thurs - 12 midday to 4pm. Use Koru Way entrance, off Totara Terrace, alongside the steps.

A MESSAGE from New Zealand Fire Service: Have your chimneys cleaned at least once a year.

A MESSAGE from New Zealand Fire Service: Dirty chimneys can cause chimney fires.

DRIVING LESSONS available. Call Nicky at Aspiring Drivers to book your lesson for professional driving instruc-tion. 0210607310

KAMP MARQUEE HIRE Unique rec-tangular, oval and round marquees; event design and creation. Phone 02102934268 or [email protected]

TEETH WHITENING by experienced, professional, fully certified NZCTWA member at our Wanaka studio or your home. For appointments call/text Lakes Sparklewhite 0277818989

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GOOD ROTATIONS Bicycle Shop win-ter hours are: Wednesday 2-6pm, Thursday 10am-6pm, Friday 2-6pm. 34 Anderson Rd. www.goodrotations.co, 03.443.4349.

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VASECTOMYS AVAILABLE here in Wanaka with Dr Simon Brebner at Aspiring Medical Centre. Ph 443 0725 for an appointment to discuss.

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LOGOS, POSTERS, FLYERS AND MORE. Custom-made for your busi-ness, wedding, birthday party and more. Professional, creative, affordable. Enquire via [email protected]

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VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED. The Salvation Army Family Store, Wanaka requires your help. Please enquire at our store or phone 03 443 5068

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WANAKA YACHT Club Inc annual gen-eral meeting 7 PM on Wednesday 29th of July at the clubrooms Lakeside Road, Wanaka. Apologies to [email protected]

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A WORD OF ADVICE FOR PEOPLE NEEDING TO RENEW THEIR DRIVERS LICENCE IN THE ONE AND A HALF DAYS A MONTH THAT IT’S POSSIBLE IN WANAKA: GO EARLY AND PUT YOUR NAME DOWN OR GO ONLINE TO SEE IF YOU CAN BOOK IN. OTHERWISE IF YOU TURN UP AND THEY’RE BUSY AND ALL BOOKED, YOU MISS OUT! THEN YOU HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER MONTH OR DRIVE TO QUEENSTOWN OR ALEX. NOT HELPFUL WHEN YOUR LICENCE IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE!

GO EASY ON THE CROWN RANGE PEOPLE. BEEN SOME VERY DANGEROUS DRIVING, SPEEDING AND RIDICULOUS PASSING. PATIENCE PLEASE, SOMEONE WILL BE KILLED.

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WHY DO THE SATURDAY WANAKA MENS CLUB COMMITTEE PLAY TOGETHER ALL THE TIME, GET OUT THERE AND PLAY SOME REAL GOLF WITH THE HACKERS U PUT US WITH EVERY WEEK.

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Life in Wanaka doesn’t come cheap. Residents pay for the privilege of living in such stunning surrounds - from higher rents to pricier groceries and fuel. And if your dream is to buy a home here, finding an affordable one is no mean feat. Right?

Queenstown Lakes Community Hous-ing Trust claims that a house in Queens-town costs roughly twice as much as one in Wanaka - Lake Hayes Estate around $600,000 and Luggate, $250,000-$300,000.

So Queenstown has an affordable hous-ing problem and Wanaka doesn’t?

Despite the fact that there are 30 people in Wanaka on the waiting list for support from the trust.

It’s so often the case that Queenstown comes first.

And to clarify, the median house price in the Queenstown Lakes District - and yes, Wanaka is part of this district – is $664,000, second only to Auckland.

EDITORIAL

Ski staff not the real issue

Out of consideration for the workers of businesses in Wanaka, locals and holiday makers, why don’t all Cardrona and TC staff and other ski persons get picked up at the supplied parking at the showgrounds? This would enable easier parking and less frustration. Let’s be fair!

Pete C,Wanaka

Parking woes for workers

This letter is in response to the text message published in the Wanaka Sun with regards to Cardrona staff parking in the Lismore Street carpark.

This year we considered an alternative pick up point for our team however there was nowhere more practical and suitable than outside our town office. Our pick-up time is 7am when there are generally very few people about. We have advised our team to park at the lake front and have alterna-tive pick-up points available so those who live further out of town do not need to drive and take up valuable parking space in our CBD. Many of our people do not have vehicles.

It is also a busy time of the year and many of the other CBD busi-nesses also bolster their staffing levels. These people also need to be able to park somewhere.

We love our team and want them to feel like they are part of our Wanaka community. We feel they help to bring life and vibrancy to our town during the winter. We think it is important to remember that the issue is about the fact that Wanaka does not have enough parking available for the people that live and work here as well as the people who visit. We would be happy to be involved in any consultation that was targeted at making improvements in this area.

Rebecca LewisPeople and Performance

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The current climate of pristine ski days together with cold, frosty nights has brought some local drivers to our attention. Over the weekend a local female and a male in Wana-ka for the ski season were both charged with drinking and driving, with both apprehen-sions attributed to frosty windscreens not being cleared of ice. Windscreen scrapers are available from Mitre10 for $4.99. Driving home with your head out the window does not cut the mustard!

Wanaka police will continue to target the following: rural roads for speed offences and driver behaviour, drinking and driving, and local bars for intoxication. Be aware too that there are numerous complaints being made to police in relation to thefts from local bars and ski equipment from vehicles and at Cardrona and Treble Cone ski areas.

Some of the incidents dealt with over the last seven days include:

Two local males intoxicated and fighting at Base Backpackers in Brownston Street both spent a cooling off period in the police cells.

A local male was arrested for a breach of bail relating to a recent domestic incident.

A vehicle crash on July 11 on Mt Aspiring Road resulted in a Christchurch man being processed for drink-driving and the theft of a motor vehicle which left the road and rolled down a steep bank. He was airlifted to Dunedin due to his injuries.

An iPhone 5 was taken from inside Puzzling World on Sunday July 12 and the owner is desperate to get it back. With a green cover and held together with cricket bat tape, it is easily identifiable. It can be handed in at the Police Station drop box by the front door anonymously if you know its whereabouts.

Restricted drivers need to ensure that their overseers seated next to them are sober - it does not count if they fail the breath test! And too many drivers are talking on their cell phones, so be warned - most seem to be in the 30-50yr age group!

We have a number of phones and passports in the property store that need to find their owners, so if you have lost an item of property, come and see Kate or Catherine at reception, or call on 4437272.

Have a safe week.

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Wanaka Associated Football Club (AFC) set up an Otago League Cup Final against old rivals Frankton this weekend by beating Queenstown Falcons last Saturday at Pembroke Park.

In an exciting semi final watched by a capacity crowd, Wanaka dug deep and made sure they still had a chance of silverware this weekend.

Having drawn with this team on the same pitch in the league only weeks before, Wanaka were out to set the record straight.

A nervous first half ensued and both teams created and missed chances, until a seemingly harmless long throw from Seb Thursby was deftly flicked on by Ed Rawlings, only for the leaping salmon, Jiffy Grif-fiths, to nod home ahead of their hapless defender. This put the yellow and blacks 1-0 up at the break.

Into the second half and Wanaka knew that if they could sneak another goal the Falcons heads would likely go down. They managed it midway through the second 45 when none other than Seb Thursby popped up unmarked in the box to calmly guide the ball into the corner past the keeper.

Thursby turned from hero into villain moments later when he mis-timed a tackle in the Wanaka box and the referee had no choice but to award Falcons a penalty. Their big striker slotted it into the side netting past young Aaron Molloy to pull one back for the visitors, 2-1 with 15 minutes to play.

Thursby wasn’t quite finished however and set about cementing Wanaka’s place in the cup final with another great finish from close range to knock the Falcons out of the cup. That was the big midfielder’s fifth goal in three games, a record to be proud of.

Wanaka Braves finished their season with a hard-fought defeat to Alexandra. They lost 2-1 despite dominating the game for long periods. A good second half of the season will see them take a lot of confidence forward for next year.

For Wanaka AFC the season finishes this Saturday. They will be hoping to trump Frankton in Queenstown, having been pipped to the post for the last two seasons on the final day by the very same team.

The Central Otago League Cup is up for grabs for the first time; a wee bit of revenge would be sweet too...

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Wanaka swimmer Hamish McLean, 15, finished eighth in the final of the men’s 400m freestyle (S6 class) at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow on Tuesday morn-ing.

Hamish swam a personal best time of 5:39:48 in his heat and improved on that in the final when he finished in 5:38:46.

His Wanaka coach Fi Hezinger was delighted with the result.

“I am very proud,” she told the Wanaka Sun. “Hamish swam the heat in a personal best time, hitting the exact time we targeted for him. Then he managed to take another one second off this in the final.”

Hamish will swim again on Friday and Sunday (Glasgow time) when he competes in the open men’s 100m freestyle and 200m individual medley, but the 400m freestyle was his best ranked event.

Hamish arrived in Glasgow last week and was well prepared for the race ahead.

“I am feeling well prepared thanks to my awesome coach back in Wanaka. Also thanks to everyone who has helped me get here with all my fundraising. I am very thankful for your generosity. The team have been very nice to me,” Hamish wrote on his Facebook page.

The Mt Aspiring College pupil is the Wanaka Swimming Club’s first national representative.

Hamish shines at World Championships

MAC First XI hockey team members coached aspiring young players during a fundrais-ing session held this week. Pictured is Mitchie Maluschnig with (from left) Eden Mckay, 6, Mackenzie Fairmaid-Shevlof, 6, Priya White, 6 and Liv Fairmaid, 5. Six courses were held over two days as part of the team’s fundraising efforts to raise money to go a South Island tournament in Greymouth at the end of August.

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There was a lot of good-natured banter among competing family members during the Race Your Mate challenge at Treble Cone on Saturday, and the quote of the day came from Bradley Gendall, 10.

“I’m going to thrash the pants off you Dad,” he said to his father Mark, before they raced.

However his dad proved him wrong, scoring a time of 29.50, compared to Bradley’s 29.76.

More than 70 people competed in the free annual event, organised by Wanaka Ski and Snowsports Club.

“It was a highlight to see lots of Wanaka families out there doing it,” said club secretary Bonny Teat. “Several had four members compet-ing against each other. The instructors were out there too trying to get the fastest time, but Jesse [Teat, former NZ Olympic ski team member] pipped them on his first day on skis for the season.”

A number of competitors did the course down Main Street up to six times, trying to get the

best possible time. “One of the very few who improved on every run was Tracey Henderson,” Bonny said. Tracey won fastest woman under 50 (30.52), and Jesse Teat was the fastest male under 50 (22.57).

Mike Shenkell was the fastest instructor over 50 with a time of 24.86. Mike has been coaching since the mid-1980s and is still a coach at Treble Cone. “It’s quite cool that Mike is still instructing up there, returning each season and still wanting to race with our new young WSSC children and their parents,” Bonny said. The fastest under 12 racer and under 50 father combination was Thomas and Jonny Benson with a combined time of 55.51, followed by the Birkby family in second place (58.22) and the Gendalls (59.26) in third. In the older category, the Ferrars - dad Dave, over 50, and son Willie, 16, blitzed the family title with a time of 55.18. The 12 and under section was won by Thomas Benson, 10, and the young-est competitor was Charlie Helmore, 5, (pictured on the course), who won the under 6 division.

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