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REMEMBERING: Leonie Gill’s husband Carl and daughter Jacqui Noema remember her one year after her death. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

By Sam DuffA year after the death of long-term Eastern Ward councillor Leonie Gill,

a derelict local pathway is to be spruced-up and named in her memory.Ms Gill, a councillor since 1998, died in November last year, just a

month after losing her seat at the election.The Kilbirnie Drainage Reserve, which runs from Cockburn in Kil-

birnie to Tirangi in Rongotai, and goes behind Bunnings and Rongotai College, will be renamed the Leonie Gill Pathway.

Daughter Jacqui Noema says Ms Gill would have been pleased with the pathway being cleaned-up but would have shied away from the attention.

“She would not like to know there was going to be somewhere with her name on it,” Jacqui says. “She would not want the glory for it.”

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Construction work to bring the Kotuku Apartments in Kilbirnie into the 21st century started last week.

The housing complex, made-up of four blocks and 103 units, will be home to 50 more people once the $7.4 million upgrade is compete.

Kotuku is the latest council owned complex to be given a spruce-up as part of Welling-ton City Council and central government’s $400 million housing upgrade programme.

The building, constructed in the 1960s, will be quake strengthened and given a makeover during the next 18 months.

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says it will be exciting to see yet another housing complex

transformed.“As well as a stylish modern

exterior the upgraded complex will feature more green and us-able outdoor space for tenants including vegetable gardens, fruit trees and a BBQ area,” Mayor Wade-Brown says.

“Our Council is deeply committed to social housing, stronger communities and ending homelessness. Warm dry affordable housing is a basic right.”

When Kotuku is completed it will be home to 50 more resi-dents in 33 studio units, 30 one-bedroom, fi ve two-bedroom and fi ve four-bedroom units.

Wellington City Council’s social housing portfolio is made-up of 2300 houses and units.

LICK OF PAINT: The Kotuku Apartments in Kilbirnie are set for a $7.4 million transformation. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

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Continued from page 1“It will look really nice,” she

says. “A lot of people will utilise the path.”

The pathway will be beautifi ed, a path installed, trees planted, community gardens put in place and generally cleaned up, ac-

cording to councillor Paul Eagle.“There’re some strange dy-

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when it opens.”Jacqui says her mother was good

with the community and tended to stay in the background working hard.

Councillor Eagle says Ms Gill’s longevity as a councillor can be put down to her really being one of the locals.

“They community felt that if they had an issue they could just go round to her home,” Councillor Eagle says.

“People used to just turn up. Her home was like a Marae.

“If there was one councillor that you knew would get something done for you it was Leonie.”

The pathway upgrade, including raised crossings at Yule and Ross Streets, will cost $600,000.

The pathway still needs to be signed off at a council meeting in February and work is expected to begin in about April, according to Councillor Eagle.

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No final decision has yet been made on the fate of a Berhampore playground, according to Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Residents of Jeypore Street have recently voiced their con-cerns about Wellington City Council proposing to close down their local playground in the draft Suburban Reserves Management Plan.

CLOSED DOWN: Wellington City Council has proposed closing down the Jeypore Street playground in Berhampore. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

Mayor Wade-Brown says. “We’re absolutely open to listening to what the public have to say.”

The draft plan proposes a policy of having at least 600 metres or a ten minute walk between playgrounds.

With the possibility of a playground at Wakefi eld Park that could impact the Jeypore Street play area.

“We will be very interested to hear what people want,” she says.

“I’m really excited that the people who live in that area are keen to maintain it and look after it.”

There is no recommenda-tion about the site becoming a car park, Mayor Wade-Brown says.

“I would like people to focus on the whole area rather than just their immediate neighbourhood.”

Jeypore Street resident Viv Graham says she has lived on the street for forty years and raised three kids there.

“To take it away would be a disaster as parents then have to contend with taking their little ones to a park of all age children on a busy main road and use their cars to do so,” she says.

“Here they can walk, sit and talk and play with the tots in a safe area, which has not cost the council much to maintain.”

A meeting of about 60 residents was held at the playground last week and was attended by Rongotai MP Annette King and Councillor Paul Eagle.

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The annual general meeting of Sea-toun and Bays Progressive Association will be held next Thursday, November 20, at 7.45pm. All residents in the com-munity are welcome, and can contact [email protected] for more details. To be held in the St Christopher's Hall, Ventor St, Seatoun.

Little local support for uber-council

There is little local support for an uber-council stretching from Miramar to Masteron, says Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Last week Hutt City Council released research showing 18 per cent of Wel-lingtonians supported having a single council while 76 per cent supported the status quo.

“I have always said Miramar to Mas-terton is too big an area to make one council,” she says.

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With four children of their own and two foster kids staying things can get a little busy for John and Andrea Lopdell.

After thinking about fostering for quite a few years the Kilbirnie couple says they have now been fostering children of varying ages for the past 14 months.

Andrea says they thought they were in a good position to lend a hand as they have been blessed with four healthy children already.

“There are challenges defi nitely,” she says. “You have your own family dynamics going on and you introduce two more kids into that so you have to fi nd a new normal.”

“It does take a little while for things to settle down.”

There are many things to enjoy about fostering, Andrea says.

“Just watching our kids reach out to the kids in our care and take

an interest in them is great,” she says. “Our family became a team in that way.’

“We felt like that was a really great way of our teenagers to look outside of themselves.”

Andrea says initially when the kids arrive they are often anxious and have had bad experiences.

“We try not to imagine it too much because it’s really sad.”

During the past 14 months the Lopdells have cared for six chil-dren, from respite for the primary caregivers to emergency overnight accommodation.

Andrea says she has some advice for people looking to foster.

“I would say if you feel like your family is in a good place to do it then it’s just such a rewarding thing to do.

“To get the greatest joys you have to face the greatest challenges I suppose.”

John, a statistician, says he has

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week was Foster Care Awareness Week.

“We are always looking to increase the number of caregiv-ers,” Megan says.

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HAPPY FAMILY: Kilbirnie couple John and Andrea Lopdell say they love fostering. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

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It would be a good idea for the council to try some of the Island Bay seawall options in late summer to see how they work, according to Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Submissions closed today on the future of the seawall which was dam-aged in last year’s storm.

“It’s quite a good idea to try,” she says. “It’s quite complex.”

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The council had a majority vote for the Wellington Convention Centre last week, with 13 approving the deal to build a new purpose-built � ve-star centre in the CBD, and only two voting against.

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says she is pleased the Council has approved the deal.

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By Sam Duff

With four generations of green grocers in the family and a fi fth on the way you could say fruit and vege are in the blood for the Miramar grocer.

Kim Chin and his wife Kay, owners of the Miramar grocery store on Park Road, are celebrating twenty years in business this month.

“Fruit and vegies are my life,” Kim says. “I have been bought up with it and I don’t know anything else.”

The business came about when Kay decided she needed a change from the job she was doing at the time.

Despite the long hours Kay says she enjoys working for herself.

“We do what we like,” she says. “It’s different to working for people.

Celebrating twenty years in business“I wanted to buy a Chinese takeaway but

he didn’t let me.”Kim’s father owned a green grocer on

Park Road when Kim was growing up and, except for a period working in catering for Air New Zealand, he has done little else.

“All my life I have been in fruit shops,” he says. “When I was about seven I used to follow my Dad to the markets.”

Kim says owning a green grocers has become harder than it used to be because of supermarket price wars and Sunday markets.

“We’re just little guys stuck between the big boys,” he says. “If you look around there’s only a handful of fruit and vegie shops left.”

Kim puts the business’ longevity down to being a family business.

“We have built up a base of loyal custom-ers,” he says. “People come back to us because we always look after them.”

Kim and Kay’s daughter Vanessa, who is expecting her own child, works in the shop and their kids spent a lot of time there growing up.

When asked if his grandchild will end up working in the shop Kim says he does not think so.

TWO DECADES ON: Fruit and vege are in the blood for Kim Chin, his wife Kay and daughter Vanessa Huang. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

Pak 'n Save has been revealed as New Zealand's cheapest supermarket in a recent Consumer New Zealand survey.

Chief executive Sue Chetwin says Pak ’n Save had the lowest prices in all seven centres surveyed, reclaiming its spot in Wellington which it lost last year to Countdown.

However, although Pak 'n Save may lead in price, Sue says the choice of brands can be more limited.

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Business women come togetherBy Sam Duff

Women power will be on dis-play in Kilbirnie this weekend at a women’s business expo.

Kilbirnie businesswoman Terry Binding, who is organis-ing the Kilbirnie Women’s Mini Expo, says it is to show-case women in business in and around the eastern suburbs.

“There’re a lot of women that actually work from home and nobody knows they’re there,” Terry says.

Miramar real estate agent and sponsor of the event Marilou le Grand says it is a good way for businesswomen to market themselves.

“There’s a lot of starting women in business,” she says

Marilou says she enjoys

owning her own business because as a single mother it gives her the fl exibility to manage her time around her kids.

Originally from Holland, Marilou is a former television presenter for a real estate channel.

Terry, a former nurse from Seatoun, owns nail salon Nailed It in Kilbirnie.

“It was something that I always thought would be nice to do.

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Young business woman Keryn Johns, a virtual ad-ministrator from Miramar, says she has looked at many other women in business and been inspired by them.

Terry says everything from lawyers and insurance brokers to make-up and skin care specialists will have table at the expo.

The Kilbirnie Women’s Mini Expo is free to the public and is being held on Saturday No-vember 15 at the Brentwood Hotel in Kilbirnie.

WOMEN POWER: Sponsors of the Kilbirnie Women’s Mini Expo Terry Binding and Marilou le Grand and Keryn Johns.

A new policy on legal highs is aimed at protecting public safety when the Government lifts its ban on the products next year.

Councillor Paul Eagle says "Our communities have told us they don’t want these substances, but the Govern-ment has decided to lift the temporary ban from mid-2015, which means we need to act now.”

“Clearly, we would prefer not to have legal highs in our city, but that decision rests with Parliament. However, the law enables us to implement a policy to control where the substances can be sold, which should be distanced from young and vulnerable people, as far as is practical and within the law.”

Mr Eagle says whilst it is unlikely that synthetic cannabis smokes will ever be legal again, the Council says he will write to the Associate Minister of Health requesting that Parliament assumes greater responsibility to regulate the supply and sale of legal high substances.

In the meantime, the Council is call-ing for submissions on the draft policy and four options for where legal highs could be sold.

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MEET THE LOCALS

By Sam Duff

The streets of Germany and Iran may seem a long way from Newtown and Mount Victoria but that is where two of Wellington’s newer residents have travelled from.

Raissa North, from Germany and now living in Mount Victoria, and Faeze Yavari, from Iran and now living in Newtown, are two of the founders of the Wellington Newcomers Network.

The organisation, which celebrated its first birthday last week, aims to give expats a place to socialise and make new friends.

Raissa, who works for Wel-lington City Libraries, says she initially came to Wel-lington for a working holiday.

“I just fell in love with the city,” she says.

Raissa says she stayed for a

year and a half before return-ing to Germany briefl y and has been in Wellington for a year this time.

“I want to grow old here.”There are a lot of social

groups in Wellington but it can be hard to meet new people, Raissa says.

Wellington Newcomers Net-work, which has 120 members, is part of a national network of newcomer groups and was formed when a speaker came to talk to Settlement Support in Wellington.

“Some people have been here longer than others so we share knowledge,” Raissa says.

Faeze, who is married with two kids, says she loves Wel-lington and fi nds locals very friendly.

“At fi rst we felt very lonely,” she says. “But there are a lot of social groups here you can

SETTLED DOWN: Members of the Wellington Newcomers Network Faeze Yavari and Raissa North say they love Wellington. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

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Scenes of Venice the Middle East line the walls of a wa-tercolour painter’s Miramar home.

Dianne Taylor, a former hos-pital administrator, says she has been painting for about 15 years and will display some of her pieces alongside 300 other exhibitors at Splash 2014.

“You can get such good atmosphere with watercol-ours,” Dianne says. “I love scenes in the rain, I love wet and gloomy days, and I love fl owers.”

Having painted so many

scenes from throughout the world, Dianne says people assume she must be well travelled, when in fact she has only been to Australia.

After getting paint brushes as a present Dianne says she decided to give watercolour painting a go and taught her-self with the help of library books.

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“There’s a lot of thinking in watercolour,” she says. “You have really got to think it through before you start.”

Splash 2014 is being held between November 13 and 23 at the Michael Fowler Centre from 10am to 5.30pm daily.

ARTY ONE: Miramar watercolour artist Dianne Taylor says she enjoys painting scenes of wet and gloomy days. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

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Start by heading out on a nature project. Give your children a bag each and gather leaves, pinecones, and anything else that looks pretty.

Purchase or make a vine wreath, grab some string, and some scissors.

Weave the stems of the leaves into

the vines, and use string to wrap larger items to the wreath.

You can attach as little or as much as you like, and it is super easy for the whole family.

Each wreath has a unique touch, and looks different from all others! Hand it on your front door, fi replace, in the living room, and get into the festive spirit!

Get crafty and festive

Christmas is just around the corner and with the warmer weather, out come the popsicles. But what can you do with the sticks once you’re done – why not make popsi-cle stick ornament crafts.

As a kid, getting crea-tive was always fun, and I know my mum and dad still have several things I made when I was little. They even have a spot on the tree after all these years. It’s great seeing the little popsicle stick Christmas tree hanging on the branch of the Christmas Tree.

Just remember even the simplest or-nament can be a treasure when it’s

homemade. Here are some craft stick

ornaments that k ids can make this year: A simple reindeer orna-ment made with felt, googly eyes, and a red pom-pom nose; a sweetly decorated popsicle stick sled; a

rustic tree made with craft sticks, fi nger paint

and buttons; and a popsi-cle stick snowman, complete

with a jaunty little hat.

the popsicles. But what can you do with the sticks once you’re done – why not make popsi-

after all these years. It’s great seeing the little popsicle stick Christmas tree hanging on

homemade. Here are some craft stick

ornaments that k ids can make this year: A simple reindeer orna-

popsicle stick sled; a rustic tree made with

craft sticks, fi nger paint and buttons; and a popsi-

cle stick snowman, complete

Get creative with your sticks


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Enliven has been providing in-home support services for 20 years, but recently the service caught the attention of Labour MP Grant Robertson.

He visited one of Enliven’s Community Support clients and their support worker in Miramar to fi nd out what a day in the life of a support worker looked like.

“Community support workers do such important work and I don’t think as a nation we value what support workers do.”

Enliven Community Support General Manager Bronwyn Williams says Grant Robertson’s visit was a great opportunity to show New Zealand politicians what community support services consist of.

“We really value the work of our support workers, our services depend on their good will and their passion for caring.”

Bronwyn says Enliven has about 450 c o m m u n i t y

support workers between Wellington and Taranaki who help people to stay independ-ent at home for as long as possible.

“Our support workers don’t do everything for them, they support them so they can keep their independence. Without support workers many people would have no choice but to move into rest home care.”

Community Support Worker Tamara Baddeley has worked in aged care for most of her life. She began her career working in rest homes and for the last 14 years she has cared for people in the comfort of their own homes.

“My daughter started school and rest home shift work didn’t fi t with being a solo mum, so I changed to community support for the fl exibility and it’s been great.”

Tamara’s client Wesley Armstrong says she visits him three times a day to help keep his health in check and assist with

everyday tasks. “It’s amazing what

Community Support Workers do and she’s great company.”

Enliven Central pro-vides a full range of community support services for people who want to maintain, or regain their inde-pendence at home. To find out more about Enliven Community Support services call 0800 36 548 36 (0800 ENLIVEN) or visit www.enlivencentral.org.nz

Grant Robertson, Wesley Armstrong and Enliven Com-munity Support Worker Tamara Baddeley

Supporting independence with Enliven

MINUTES WITH:

What would your last meal on earth be?

What is your guilty TV pleasure?

Jimmy Jansen

What’s one thing that you’ll never throw away?

My teacup collection.

What would you spend your last $100 on?

Deep fried goodness and go-carting, or something fun and exciting. May as well enjoy my money to the very last cent!

What makes you smile?

Who are you inspired by?

Catching up with friends and seeing them succeed, dirty jokes, and animals with people-names, like Helen – my future Chihuahua.

I’m inspired by Irena Sendler – a nurse in WWII. Also Kylie Mi-nogue and my fantas-tic parents.

What was your best ever holiday?

Vietnam – blew my mind.

What is one thing Cook Strait News readers would be surprised to know about you?

What’s next on your wish list?

As a child I was a passionate and dedicated member of the Dunedin Aquarium Society and won prizes in fi sh keeping. My fi rst goldfi sh, Sunny, is still alive and well, 16 years later!

A trip to Europe with my fi ancé.

Embarrassing Bodies, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and American Horror Story.

A pizza with a side of fries. And dumplings. And chocolate. And a spring roll. All cooked for me, of course!

I would love to sit down and dine with Dolly Parton, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga all at the same time. Oh and Sam Duff of the Cook Strait News!

Who would you love to have a meal with?


What would you spend your last $100 on?

Deep fried goodness and go-carting, or something fun and exciting. May as well enjoy my money to the very last cent!

What is one thing Cook Strait Newsreaders would be surprised to know about you?

What’s next on your wish list?

As a child I was a passionate and dedicated member of the Dunedin Aquarium Society and won prizes in fi sh keeping. My fi rst goldfi sh, Sunny, is still alive and well, 16 years later!

A trip to Europe with my fi ancé.

What would you spend

enjoy my money to the

As a child I was a passionate and dedicated member of the Dunedin Aquarium Society and won prizes in fi sh keeping. My fi rst goldfi sh, Sunny, is still alive and

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Question: What makes you really angry and why?

readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words. They must be signed and a street address provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publication.The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication. Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to samduff @wsn.co.nz. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

Mira O’Connor, Newtown

“When people think all females are men haters.”

Noel Hutton, Newtown

“There’s not much that makes me angry. Probably when I say something I didn’t mean to say without thinking fi rst.”

Kevin Warren, Newtown

“I don’t get angry these days. I try to be positive not negative.”

Ana Camara, Houghton Bay

“Bills because you never have the money when you need it.”

Annie Birch, Newtown

“When people drive really short distances that they could walk.”

Nicole Cousins, Newtown

“People who are ignorant, because they’re rude and unfriendly.”

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Dear Ed, It recently came to my attention that meetings aimed at fl eshing out plans for the future development of Miramar peninsula, are well underway.

Unfortunately though, as we, the general public have been excluded from contribut-ing to this process, the fate of Crown owned land on the peninsula, which belongs to us all, will be decided by a chosen few.

These few include the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Wellington City Council, Port Nicholson Block Settlement

Trust and an exclusive group of interested parties.

As this secretive process is being driven by the Government’s neo-liberal agenda, it’s fair to assume, that some of this land is about to be privatised.

This process will be spun using ‘public/private partnership’ jargon and the fi rst phase will probably involve handing the Mount Crawford prison property over to local iwi.

This will open the way for Wellington

City Council zoning changes, the emer-gence of greedy property developers from the shadows and years of subdivision mayhem.

So if you’re against the peninsula being plastered with mansions owned by the wealthy cronies of the powers that be, then you’ll need to stand up, be counted and exercise your right to be heard on this matter.

John Overton, Save Mount Crawford campaign

Carving up the peninsula

Dear Ed, I congratulate Cook Strait News new reporter on his wide-ranging coverage of local issues and events in this little corner of Wellington.

However, I am fi nally beginning to feel I must take Sam Duff to task on his rather reckless use of the English language.

Sam Duff is not a garage mechanic – he is a journalist.

As such his readers expect him to demonstrate an impressive mastery of the English language.

Sam – you do not have a pass-time – you have a pastime (all one word).

Furthermore, in last week’s Cook Strait News you referred to the Island Bay

Seawall as a sight. It may well be a sight, but in that par-

ticular context it was a site. There have been several other pec-

cadilloes along the way but these are the most recent.

To summarise – please continue to bring your own brand of local journalism to the Cook Strait News, but try not to endanger the English language in the process!

(That’s my grump for the day out of the way!)

It is a wonder Sam hasn't had Mr West-fold on his case by now!

Christine Swift, Island Bay

Young hoon ruins English language

Dear Ed, except in the USA, it's terribly vulgar to mention, as you did on October 27, a clergyman as ‘Reverend Parry’.

A church minister is properly mentioned as ‘the Reverend John (or J) Smith’, and thereafter as ‘Mr Smith’ like any other gentleman.

If his Christian name or its initial isn't known, he is mentioned as ‘the Reverend Mr Smith’, and then as ‘Mr Smith’.

You surely wouldn't mention our At-torney-General as ‘(the) Honourable Finlayson’, which is an exact analogy.

Orally, it is also vulgar to address a clergyman as ‘Reverend Smith’ or just ‘Reverend’.

When a man is ordained, he remains a Christian and a gentleman, so far as his names and social honorifi cs are concerned.

I've mentioned only men, since Bible-believing Christians cannot recognize women as ministers or any other bearers of those church offi ces found in the New Testament.

H Westfold, Miramar (abridged)

Addressing the clergy correctly

Dear Ed, great news (Convention centre gets big tick, November 3)!

The convention industry is based on two foundations: large numbers of people on expense accounts using fossil fuels to travel

long distances for a short time, and large numbers of hospitality workers in low-pay, low-security, low-prospect jobs.

Just what Wellington needs!Tony Ricketts, Island Bay

Convention centre gets go ahead


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Could you eat up to 70 pork ribs in one sitting? The chal-lenge has been set by a local bar to gobble-up as many ribs as you can eat.

General manager of Gas-works in Miramar, Lisa Rid-out, says they wanted to create a buzz for their signature ribs so have constructed a special rib shack.

The record for the most ribs eaten so far sits at 70 and it is normally the big guys that get to that level, Lisa says.

“We’re keen to have as many

come down and try to beat the record as possible,” she says.

Lisa says the bar’s rib sauce has recently been reinvented and is proving to be very popular.

“I just had a call from a couple in Lower Hutt because they heard the ribs are that great.

“Often we’re jam packed.”The bar goes through 200

kilograms of ribs a week, according to rib boss Josh Arthurs.

Gasworks in Miramar erect their rib shack on Wednesday evenings.

King of the ribsRIB CHALLENGE: Gasworks Miramar team members Zeb Mar-shall, Lisa Ridout, James Ford and rib boss Josh Arthurs. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

By Sam Duff

The kids of Berhampore School have been busy getting their hands dirty for an upcoming craft market.

When the Cook Strait News visited last week the Tuatara class were busy preparing home-made ice cream for the Kristmas Knack Craft Market.

Justine Fletcher, from the Whanau Army, says the school holds a craft market each season to fundraise for different projects.

“There’s quite a lot of school in-volvement but there are people

coming from all over Wellington to sell stuff,” Justine says.

Everything from clothing and jewellery to hand-made soap and hand-carved wooden spoons will be for sale, she says.

“We aim to raise $5,000 a term but we could always do with twice as much.”

The Berhampore School Kristmas Knack Craft Market will be held on Friday November 14 from 6pm till 8pm and on Saturday November 15 from 9.30am till 2.30pm.

Youngsters pitch-in for market

Wellington's first Civic Hackathon was carried out November 1 and 2.

Over thirty designers, de-velopers, hardware special-ists, mesh network builders, residents, urban planners, transport enthusiasts, and train watchers spent two days hacking the transport issues focusing on Eastern Suburbs and the CBD.

One of Wellington's great-est challenges is that of traffi c management and fl ow.

Traffi c being pedestrians, cyclists, public transport, taxis, freight, and private vehicles.

The group focused on brainstorming answers which would increase the quality of transport around the Eastern Suburbs Peninsula, and to and from the CBD.

Working over two days, the group produced five ideas that they then presented to Mayor Celia Wade-Brown as well as team representatives of the Miramar business improvement district group.

Ideas included TaxiPool, Real Time Bus Travel Ap-plication, Traffi c Visualisa-tion, Travel Corridors and Future Innovators, and Cycle Tracking.

Hackathon aims to improve traffi c

HAVING A GO: Dawson Mitchell, 8, whips up some home-made ice cream

GETTING CREATIVE: Lucia Tiso, 9, gets her hands dirty for the market.

KIDS IN ACTION: Charlie Ussher, 7, has a go at mak-ing home-made ice cream. PHOTOS: Sam Duff


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Diabetes is a condition where there is too much glucose (a form of sugar) in your blood. Insulin, the hormone that your body normally produces to deal with this sugar is unable to do so. The resulting high levels of glucose can lead to long term damage to your body, including heart disease, particularly heart attack and stroke, kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage and damage to your feet. Therefore it is a condition that has a huge impact on your overall health and wellbeing.

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After 13 weeks and hours of collecting, sorting, planning and nailing a class of year twos from Hataitai School have completed a bottle cap mural made-up of 2350 colourful caps.

The Orongorongo class and their teacher Michelle James started collecting bottle caps from home, cafes and even rubbish bins in July to create their own school mural.

Parent Christine Barraud, who came up with the mural idea, says the kids enjoyed taking part in the project.

“They drove the whole thing because the excitement level never really stopped,” Christine says.

Michelle asked all the students what the mural should look like and Christine says she took those ideas and tried to come up with a design.

Christine says many parents helped out with the mural and Place

Makers in Evans Bay donated the large boards used to mount the mural.

“It would not have been possible without all the help.”

The mural is intended to resemble parts of Hataitai from the sea to views of Mount Victoria, Christine says.

The wind turbines symbolise the recycling theme of the whole project and the octopus was the kids being creative, she says.

CLASSROOM FUN: Honey Fowler, Skye Cowdell, Roman Toomer, Theo Barraud, Joel Dennehy, Toby Connor-Kebbell and Bella Thomas love their mural. PHOTOS: Sam Duff

BIG GRINS: Hataitai School students, back, Kate Langrish, Zach Timmins, Fergal Carnegie, Sam Christie, Imogene Dalton with, front, Ryan Stembridge, Vivienne Moon and Lyla Lanford.

HAVING A GO: Joel McGlone, Dan McSherry, Frazer Philpott, Callum Lisner and Travis Oscilowski.

GETTING CREATIVE: Young creatives, back, Alice Alison and Jessica Cheals with, front, Penelope Helbick and Grace Robson.

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The Wellington Art Club’s sale of original paintings in the atrium of Rita Angus Retire-ment village, Coutts Street, Kilbirnie is a good time for Christmas gift buying with a wide variety of painting styles, and subject matter, including a number of original crafts and jewelry to choose from .

The exhibition is on Saturday the 15th and Sunday the 16th of November from 10am to 4pm and some of the better known artists exhibiting include Phil Dickson, Evelyn McCutcheon, Olympia Osborne, Del Te Rito,

Helen Wilson, Judith Royal, Graeme Calcott and Eric Dyne.

The club’s rooms are in Chelsea Street, Miramar and there are painting groups most weekdays, with regular outdoor painting sessions and occa-sional specialist workshops. Subjects include portraits and life classes and mediums in-clude pencils, oils, water color and acrylics. The club likes to encourage new members who can benefi t from the support from the more experienced artists.

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On occasions, some ex-pand on this new hobby add scenery, make it bigger, and create an elaborate railway wonderland. It’s often a question of space.

Come and see varied port-able layouts at the RailEx Model Railway Show on November 15, between 10am and 5pm; and on November 16, from 10am to 4pm. It

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At the RaiEx show there will be model layouts of all shapes and sizes. The smaller layouts with tiny trains could fi t in a suitcase, while the large gauged gar-den railway is designed for use in a large outdoor area.

The model locomotives and rolling stock are true replicas of railways of the world, with Europe, UK and USA being the most common. Some talented modellers build their own locomotives to suit their layout era and country.

Could a model railway take over the house? The short answer is, Yes!

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Across: 1 Twice, 4 Pressing, 9 Chafed, 14 Arson, 15 In all probability, 17 Pores, 18 Eat, 19 Opening, 20 Dissident, 21 Aghast, 24 Attention, 25 Brewer, 26 Healed, 29 Escalation, 31 Rip, 32 Hatter, 33 Scab, 35 Age, 37 Echo, 39 Interests, 40 Flippancy, 41 Showy, 42 Antennae, 47 Knitwear, 51 Soaks, 55 Truculent, 56 Prevalent, 58 Itch, 59 Ill, 60 Real, 61 Cirrus, 62 Eel, 63 Aftershock, 66 Guitar, 67 Column, 69 Migratory, 72 Screen, 73 Unpopular, 75 Fancied, 77 Run, 80 Erase, 81 Many happy returns, 82 Incur, 83 Yanked, 84 Reddened, 85 Bendy. Down: 2 Wine press, 3 Colon, 5 Riot, 6 Swahili, 7 Idiosyncrasy, 8 Grind, 9 Cayenne, 10 Alps, 11 Enrage, 12 Asset, 13 Knotted, 14 Assayer, 16 Punctuation, 22 Enlist, 23 Testify, 24 À la mode, 25 Bypass, 27 Licence, 28 Benign, 30 Nero, 32 Heron, 34 Buyer, 36 Spit, 38 Can, 42 Altar, 43 Tsunami, 44 Nous, 45 Acetic, 46 Oasis, 48 Interrogate, 49 Weighty, 50 Arc, 51 Stardom, 52 Spleen, 53 Mealy-mouthed, 54 Saga, 57 Entrap, 64 Concerned, 65 Harrier, 66 Gherkin, 68 Unnamed, 70 Grapple, 71 Nevada, 72 Snack, 74 Owner, 76 Crude, 78 Meek, 79 Tyre.

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Hey guys, my name is Mr T and a few of the Cook Strait News team members snapped this pic of me when I was out and about riding shot-gun with my best mate Richard.

Richard is my best friend in the whole world and we do everything together.

We live in Island Bay but get out and about on our scooter. In this photo you can see it is lovely and comfy with a big pillow, a water container and even a sun roof to keep me from burning up.

I am eight years old and an adult dog but I still love cuddles each and every day.

In the mornings Richard mas-sages me which gets me going for our exciting adventures throughout the day.

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Yesterday was a big day for me. After 23 years of growing up and living in Plimmerton, north of Porirua, I fi nally made the move to somewhere new.

Since I started this job I have come to love the Eastern and Southern Suburbs and the mix of characters that live in the area.

On any one day I get to meet people with amazing world views or who have accomplished incred-ible things. Not to mention the beautiful scenery, such as the Oku Reserve in Island Bay which was on the front page of last week’s paper.

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The best way to experience a place is to meet those that live there; Berhampore has some amaz-ing residents – from writers and actors to the founder of an Indian orphanage and a woman fi ghting to stop her church being sold.

Berhampore now has two more residents.

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Racers raise cashAbout $2,000 was raised for charity

at the inaugural Great Wellington Hunt last week.

Organiser of the event, which saw teams race to many Wellington loca-tions, Graeme Davidson says 32 teams took part in the challenge.

Awesome Team Clark won the chil-dren’s race while Team Wilson won the main race.

Money raised from the event went towards the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Tribute to TattsLocal distance running Coach Graham

Tattersall, 69, has been farewelled after he died from an aggressive form of melanoma.

Graham was the distance coach for the 2008 Olympics and spent 17 years coaching at Scots College.

He was a well-known figure at the Wellington Harrier Athletic Club.

Bank sticks with waterfront

TSB Bank and Wellington City Council have signed an agreement which will see the bank retain their naming rights over the TSB Bank Arena for a further ten years.

The deal will now include the adjacent Shed 6 convention centre so the two facilities will now be known as the TSB Bank Arena and Convention Centre.

By Sam Duff

A local fencing coach, who was a professional in the sport in China, has bought home a gold medal from the New Zealand Fencing Championships.

Ping Yuan, who lives in Lower Hutt but coaches 50 fencers at the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, says it is the fi fth time she has won gold for the women’s foil.

“After winning gold the fi rst time and the second time I kind of got used to it,” she says.

“I like the challenge.”Ping, who started in the sport at the

age of 13, says she enjoys coaching young fencers because they will learn a lot from her.

“They enjoy fencing because it’s dif-ferent to other sports,” she says. “Lots of New Zealand kids play rugby and not all kids want to do that.

“Fencing is not all about your physical ability but about your thinking.”

The kids she teaches, aged from fi ve to 14, pick up the sport very easily and are doing well.

“There’re kids who we only coach for a year or so and they win medals.

“I am very proud of them. Some of them are going to be really good fencers.”

Ping says in the future she hopes the sport will expand throughout the country.

Asked if she would ever stop fencing, Ping says she would not.

“I love it.”

Fencer wins gold

GOLDEN SMILE: Top fencer Ping Yuan won a gold medal for the women’s foil at the recent New Zealand Fencing Championships. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff



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Forget images of grey hair and fl at caps – a local bowling club says the sport is not just for older people.

Bowling has been affected by opinions of the past of it being an older person’s sport, according to Dayle Jackson, secretary of

BOWLED AWAY: Miramar Bowling Club member Dayle Jackson aims for the jack. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

the Miramar Bowling Club.“These days it’s being played to a big extent

through secondary schools,” she says.“It grips you because it’s a very skilful

game and a very tactical game but you are still working within a team situation to achieve success.”

Dayle says the Miramar Bowling Club, which has about 80 members, opened in 1946 and the female section opened a year later.

The two clubs remained separate until 1989 when the merged.

“We’re striving forward to let the Miramar community know this wonderful commu-nity facility is open for families to enjoy,” Dayle says.

She says in recent years there has been a big increase in the number of companies having their Christmas parties at bowling clubs.

“They’re being enticed to something they thought they knew having seen it on TV,” Dayle says.

“Now they want to give it a go.“They get very competitive and have a lot

of fun.”The former school principal says she has

been bowling for the past 15 years and fi rst got involved through school and coaching children.

The Miramar Bowling Club will be open-ing their doors for locals to learn more about the sport every Wednesday starting November 12 from 6.30pm till 7.30pm.

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