Neighbourhood Support Nelson

Safe and friendly neighbourhoods

Co-ordinator Karen Clark Ph: 546-4902 Email: nsupport@xtra.co.nz Office located at: Stoke police station, 3 Bail St, Stoke Hours: Monday – Thursday

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Good neighbour comes to the rescue

Here’s an uplifting story about a neighbour who saved the day recently when he went to check up on a friend in his 90s and found him lying helpless outside on his lawn after a fall. It shows the value of looking out for your neighbours...

Brian McIntyre, who co-ordinates a Neighbourhood Support group in central Nelson, says he went to check on his friend Douglas one evening after Douglas’s daughter phoned to say she was concerned. She had tried phoning her father during the afternoon and he hadn’t answered.

Brian noticed that Douglas hadn’t lowered his kitchen blind as he usually did in the evenings . He usually raises the blind in the mornings to signal he is OK and then lowers it again at night. So he went over to Douglas’s place to check and found him lying outside under the clothesline, having fallen while hanging out the washing. He was unable to get up off the ground.

`̀ The poor man had been lying there for in excess of five hours,’’ says Brian.

Douglas was stiff and cold but luckily was uninjured, so Brian helped him get into bed to warm up and stayed at his place until his daughter, who lives near Takaka, arrived .

Brian says it was ̀ `a very good outcome to what could otherwise have had a tragic ending had he spent the night out there in the cold’’.

November 2014

Community street art: Budding artists have a go at our street art activity at the recent Victory Community Treasure Hunt. We invited people to do chalk drawings of what they’d like to see in their neighbourhood.

We’d like to expand our network of Neighbourhood Support groups in the Victory/Washington Valley/Port Hills area to help make it safer, so if you know someone who lives there who isn’t in a Neighbourhood Support group already, encourage them to join or set up a group and contact Karen for more information.

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Thanks to our major citywide sponsors

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Introducing Nelson city’s new community constable My name is Harriet Murray and I am the new Nelson City Community Constable. I have nearly 7 years’ policing experience, having joined the New Zealand Police in 2008. Previously I spent over ten years as a primary school teacher both in New Zealand and England. Since joining the police I have enjoyed a variety of roles, such as a frontline response officer in Upper Hutt, being part of a Neighbourhood Policing Team in Naenae and being a Specialist Child Interviewer in Wellington. Having been born in Nelson many years ago, the call of family, the beaches and the sunshine was too strong to ignore and I returned home with my husband in August 2013 I spent a great year working in Motueka and getting to know the local community and am now looking forward to getting to know the Nelson locals. I enjoy working with local community groups and different local agencies to help solve problems, by focusing on the problems from each community’s point of view. I like to get out and about and see the wonderful blend of cultures, different backgrounds and life stories that Nelson has to offer. So don’t be shy if you see me out and about, come say hello.

Neighbourhood mosaic: Three-year-old Amber

plays by a mosaic sign made by a Neighbourhood

Support group in Annesbrook to name a local creek.

Group co-ordinator Anne Mattsen says the group

had a lot of fun creating the mosaic at Pottering

About in Nelson. They decided to name the creek

Rock Valley Creek at a BBQ earlier this year to mark

Neighbours Day Aotearoa .

Neighbours Day

Aotearoa 2015

Neighbours Day Aotearoa is an annual event celebrating neighbourliness, and will be held on March 28-29 next year. It’s an ideal opportunity to get together socially with your neighbours so start planning your get-together now for that weekend or around that time. You could have a street BBQ or picnic, outdoor movie, afternoon tea or something else. Neighbourhood Support Nelson plans to make meat pack vouchers and vouchers for cakes/savouries available for gatherings, thanks to funding we’ve received from the Nelson City Council and Network Tasman Trust. Details on how to enter draws for the vouchers will be provided in February. We have signs promoting Neighbours Day that we’d like to

display in prominent places. If you’re able to display one in a shop or office window or on a fence please get in touch.

New groups

Welcome to these new Neighbourhood Support groups:

Observatory Terrace/Princes Drive Shelbourne Street Victory Square businesses

Committee elected Neighbourhood Support Nelson’s governance committee was elected at the AGM in September. The committee members are listed below and there is provision to add two more members:

Peter Crins (chairperson) Keith Christie (treasurer) Christine Jackson (secretary) Diane Goulding Heather Thomas Pam Schouten Shanine Hermsen Jane Meharry

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Rural north zone Burglaries: #0 Theft from cars: #0 Stolen vehicles:#0 Zone 1 Atawhai Burglaries # 7: Noel Jones Dr, Tui Glen Rd, Atawhai Dr, Atawhai Cres x 2, Frenchay Dr, Paremata St Theft from cars # 2: Todds Bush Rd, Atawhai Dr. Stolen vehicles: #1: Atawhai Dr Zone 2 City Centre/The Wood Burglaries # 35: Brougham St x 2, Trafalgar St x 2, Nile St x 4, Paru Paru Rd, Grove St, Vickerman St x 5, Hardy St x 2, Examiner St, Queen Elizabeth II Dr, Weka St, Colling-wood St x 3, Halifax St, North Rd, Sowman St, Rutherford St, Shel-bourne St, Haven Rd, Bridge St, Hope St, Ajax Ave, New St, Cambria St, Allan St Theft from cars # 14: Halifax St x 4, Nile St, Hardy St, Paru Paru Rd, Mil-ton St, Trafalgar St, New St, Cam-bria St x 2, Maitai Valley Rd, Milles Acre carpark, Stolen vehicles # 12: Haven Rd x 2, Tasman St, Alton St, Collingwood St, Quebec Rd, Vickerman St, Bux-ton carpark, Persico Way, Trafalgar Sq, Akersten St, Hardy St Zone 3: Victory/Stepneyville Burglaries #34: Toi Toi St x 3, Lock-ing St, Tipahi St x 3, St Vincent St x 5, Abraham Heights, Vanguard St x 4, Laval Heights, Wakefield Quay x 3, Konini St x 2, Quebec Rd, St Law-rence St x 2, Wolfe St, Mount St, Franklyn St, Vosper St, Washington Rd, Mount Pleasant Ave, Jenner Rd x 2 Theft from cars #18: Mount Pleas-ant Ave, Stanley Cres x 2, Wester-ham Pl, Montreal Rd, St Vincent St, Tipahi St x 2, Russell St, St Lawrence St, Fifeshire Cres, Washington Rd x

3, Toi Toi St, Kawai St, Jenner Rd x 2. Stolen vehicles #8: Toi Toi St x 2, Washington Rd, Jenner Rd, Locking St, Tipahi St x 2, Fifeshire Cres Zone 4: Nelson South/Bishopdale Burglaries # 2: Waimea Rd x 2 Theft from cars # 8: Market Rd x 2, Grampian Rd, Tukuka St, Waimea Rd x 3, Tipahi St Stolen vehicles: #0 Zone 5: The Brook Burglaries: #0 Theft from cars: #0 Stolen vehicles # 3: Brook St x 2, Larges Lane Zone 6: Tahuna Hils Burglaries # 6: Tamaki St, Observa-tory Tce, Grenville Tce, Princes Dr, Maire St, Chamberlain St Theft from cars # 2: Princes Dr, Moana Ave Stolen vehicles # 4: Tosswill Rd, Tamaki St, Princes Dr, Chamberlain St Zone 7: Tahuna/Annesbrook Burglaries # 9: Hounsell Circle x 4, Quarantine Rd, Muritai St x 3, Ta-hunanui Dr Theft from cars # 2: Mata Close, Muritai St Stolen vehicles #2: Green St, Parkers Rd Zone 8: Wakatu/Enner Glynn Burglaries #1: Enner Glynn Rd Theft from cars: #0 Stolen vehicles: #0 Zone 9: Nayland Stoke Zone 10: Stoke,/Maitlands Zone 11 Stoke South/East Zone 12 Stoke South/West Burglaries: #0 Theft from cars: #0 Stolen vehicles: #0

Community policing team

Nelson community constable

Harriet Murray

Based at the Nelson Police Station Ph 546-3840 Email: harriet.murray@police.govt.nz

Covers Atawhai, City Centre, The Brook and Bishopdale areas

Victory community constable

Anita Pearless

Based at the Stoke Police Station and Victory Community Police Base Ph 547-6212 Email: anita.pearless@police.govt.nz

Covers Victory/Washington Valley/Port Hills areas

Stoke community constable

Keith Jordan

Based at the Stoke Police Station Ph: 547-6212 Email: keith.jordan@police.govt.nz

Covers Stoke, Wakatu and Enner Glynn areas

Ethnic liaison officer

David Cogger Ph 545-9625 Email: david.cogger@police.govt.nz

Victory community police base

Based at the Victory Community Centre and staffed by volunteers

Tues-Fri 10am-2pm Ph 548-2690

Crime statistics 28 August—3 November

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More thanks to our funders and sponsors

Funders:

Street sponsors:

Other sponsors:

Power cuts can strike at any time

Thousands of Aucklanders were without power for many days recently as a result of a large fire at a substation. This highlights our vulnerability to power outages.

Here are some tips for dealing with power cuts: Be prepared with emergency supplies and back-up sources

of lighting, cooking and communication. As well as non-perishable food and water, you also need medical, sleeping and personal supplies.

Your three-day emergency kit should have: battery-operated lighting such as torches, light sticks, radio, gas or portable BBQ/cooker and a supply of spare batteries.

Keep one of the older style analogue phones in your cupboard for emergencies because they don’t need power to operate.

After a power cut consume or discard refrigerated food as soon as possible to avoid illness.

More information at: www.nelsontasmancivildefence.co.nz www.getthru.govt.nz

Holiday security tips

If you’re going away over the Christmas holiday season take some simple precautions to protect your home:

Let your neighbours know when you’re going to be away. Leave a contact phone number so they can reach you in an emergency.

Make your home look occupied while you’re away by using timers on lights.

Cancel newspaper deliveries.

Ask a neighbour to collect mail, and open and close your curtains regularly.

Invite neighbours to use your clothesline and driveway to make it look like someone is home.

Arrange to have your lawns mown if you’re going to be away for more than a week.