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Amnesty for illegal holiday home rentals

Pups to help epileptics

Wanaka athletes win

Coast to Coast

Back to preschool

One-on-one with the WCBTopics ranged from downtown cycle lanes, to clashing events, to tall trees, at the first one-on-one session between the new chair of the Wanaka Community Board and local residents. PAGE 5

Drinking alcohol while driving boats is not an issue in Wanaka or Hawea, according to QLDC Harbourmaster Marty Black. “Not as far as I’m aware,” he said. “We’ve had nothing at all like that here this year.” PAGE 3

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Stand up paddle boarding (SUP to those in the know) is taking off in Wanaka and one of the favourite places to SUP is down the Clutha River. Pictured is former Wanaka Sun journalist Tim Brewster enjoying an early morning paddle on the river below Dean’s Bank.

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Wanaka residents and holiday home owners accommodating short-term paying guests while dodging rates have three months to come forward, or the council will endeavour to track them down.

Under the Queenstown Lakes District Plan, ratepayers must register their home or holiday house if they use it to provide short-term accommodation for paying guests, or obtain resource consent, depending on the extent of the activity.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s Chief Financial Officer, Stewart Burns, said, as of November 2013, about 350 properties district-w i d e h a d b e e n r e g i s t e r e d a s providing some form of short-term accommodation for paying guests.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if that doubled” as a result of the three-month amnesty, he said.

“We have evidence that some ratepayers are taking in short-term paying visitors without the correct registrations or consents.”

The council was giving ratepayers until the end of May to either register their property or obtain resource

consent, depending on which was required.

It would then beef up its efforts to monitor advertisements for short-term accommodation online and in local publications, to ensure the properties advertised were on its database of registered or consented commercial visitor accommodation.

It was free to register a property, but if a resource consent was required, the cost varied depending on the circumstances.

Once registered or consented, a property’s rates would change from residential to mixed use and, as a result, increase by about 25

percent, which in Wanaka and Queenstown equated to around $500 to $600 a year.

Stewart Burns said property owners profiting from renting out houses, apartments and rooms on a short-term basis had to pay their way.

Not doing so was unfair to official commercial visitor accommodation providers who paid higher rates, s o m e o f w h i c h w e n t t o w a r d funding Lake Wanaka Tourism and Destination Queenstown.

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Decision to take weeksSubstation gets go ahead

Illegal rentals

A u r o r a E n e r g y ’ s application to build an electricity switching s u b s t a t i o n a t t h e R i v e r b a n k R o a d – B a l l a n t y n e R o a d intersection has been approved, to the dismay of some objectors.

The substation, planned for the south-western corner of the intersection, is intended to provide for future electricity demand in the Upper Clutha.

O b j e c t o r a n d neighbouring property owner Mark McGil l believes the concerns raised by submitters h a v e n o t b e e n adequately addressed.

When the application was publicly notified, in September last year, six submissions were r e c e i v e d , w i t h f i v e against the proposal. Objectors were concerned about visual amenity values and noise levels, risks in relation to the Nevis-Cardrona fault line and the substation’s electromagnetic field, possible groundwater contamination and the availabil ity of more suitable sites – such a s t h e T h r e e P a r k s industrial area.

Aurora Energy Senior Planning Engineer John Mulder said the site was chosen because is at the crossing point of lines from Cromwell and to the Cardrona and Maungawera substations, and it sits in a hollow s o w o u l d h a v e l o w visual impact.

Neighbouring property

owners who spoke to their submissions were all concerned about noise and visual effects. More specific concerns came from Mark McGill who was worried about potential water contamination; Raelene Shanks who wanted landscaping to be a condition of the decision; and Fiona Aitken who was concerned about the proximity of the substation to the Nevis-Cardrona fault.

“I can’t understand why [it has been approved] on such a busy intersection that will only get busier,” Mark said. “It will block drivers’ views causing other traffic issues, and be an eyesore for everyone driving through the area. It is sitting on a fault line that hasn’t been properly disproven … I believe the council is selling for a cheap price and the cost of alternative land would be more expensive to Aurora, so alternative sites are not being considered.”

Commissioners Jane Taylor and Cath Gilmour

approved the application, with some conditions, and believe concerns have been addressed.

With regard to the fault line , there have been two geotechnical assessments of the site. One shows the fault has an average return period of about 7000 years (magnitude 7) and the closest mapped trace of it is 7km south of the site. A 25-metre trench was excavated at the site and no evidence of fault displacement was found. Both reports concluded the greater seismic risk came from the Alpine Fault which has a high probability of a magnitude 8 earthquake within the next 50 years.

With regard to concerns about electromagnetic f ie lds, John Mulder supplied evidence that electromagnetic fields beyond the substation site would be less than those associated with normal domestic appliances and household wiring.

With regard to water pollution, Jane Taylor

said, “We are satisfied that any issues in relation to potential groundwater contamination will be satisfactorily addressed t h r o u g h p r o c e s s e s associated with the outline plan.”

She a lso said any a d v e r s e e f f e c t s o n landscape and visual a m e n i t y h a v e b e e n appropriately mitigated, and this was reinforced by the conditions imposed. These include a maximum height of seven metres for buildings and nine metres for structures (e.g. pylons), and a requirement for buildings and structures to be at least 4.5 metres back from road boundaries. Aurora Energy must also supply neighbouring landowners on the southern boundary with plants suitable for a three-metre (or higher) hedge. The company will plant hedges along the road boundaries, and the entrance to the site w i l l b e a t l e a s t 3 0 metres from the intersection.

T h e i n d e p e n d e n t commissioners’ decision on whether another residential subdivision at Northlake should be given the green light is at least a month away.

A s i x - d a y p u b l i c hearing on a proposed subdivision of up to 1740 lots, on 220 hectares between Aubrey Road and the Clutha River, concluded on Monday.

Independent com-missioners Lyal Cocks and David Whitney were expected to take about a month to release their recommendation.

The private district plan change - known as Plan Change 45, N o r t h l a k e S p e c i a l Zone -was requested by Sydney-based Michaela Ward Meehan, on behalf of the four owners of the site, of which she owned the majority.

M i c h a e l a W a r d Meehan was also behind another subdivision

already permitted at Northlake. She proposed a range of section sizes, with an average of seven houses per hectare. In the densest areas, there would be 15 houses per hectare on 450-500 square metre sections, including t o w n h o u s e s a n d

terraced houses.The proposal attracted

123 public submissions, of which at least 85 opposed it.

A consultant planner for the council, Vicki Jones, recommended t h e i n d e p e n d e n t commissioners reduced the number of sections to a maximum of 710, with a minimum lot size of 700 square metres, in line with the rest of Wanaka. Under Vicki’s recommendations, the subdivision would be put

on hold until 2019 and then staged as required over the following ten to 15 years.

T h e c o m m e r c i a l area would also be r e m o v e d f r o m t h e plan and development would not extend as far north as was proposed,

instead aligning with the boundaries set out in the Wanaka Structure Plan.

T h e i n d e p e n d e n t commissioners’ recommendation on whether the plan change should go ahead would be considered and ratified by the full Queenstown Lakes District Council.

T h e p l a n c h a n g e requester and submitters would have 30 days from receipt of the council’s decision to appeal it to the Environment Court.

The proposal attracted 123 public submissions, of

which at least 85 opposed it.

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Property owners who rented out rooms in their homes or their holiday houses to short-term paying guests benefitted from the marketing c a m p a i g n s b y t h e tourism organisations, Stewart Burns said.

T h e i n c o m e a l s o contributed to the cost to council of providing i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h a t

coped with the influx of holidaymakers during peak times, which was when commercial visitor accommodation was most in use.

Ratepayers could w o r k o u t w h e t h e r t h e i r c o m m e r c i a l visitor accommodation needed to be registered, or required resource consent, by reading the Guide to Providing Visitor Accommodation on the council’s website.

The rules had been in place since a district plan change in 2009 and Stewart Burns said the current “amnesty” was partially in order to ensure newcomers to the district were familiar with the requirements.

The council could impose fines for breaches of the district plan and prevent the non-c o m p l y i n g a c t i v i t y from continuing, he said.

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Local boaties responsible

Two-thirds of lake weed-free

Drinking alcohol while driving boats is not an issue in Wanaka or Hawea, according to QLDC Harbourmaster Marty Black. “Not as far as I’m aware,” he said. “We’ve had nothing at all like that here this year.”

Reports of two men in their early 20s drinking and getting into difficulty on a jetboat by the Kawarau Falls Bridge last Friday night have “gone viral,” according to Marty. “Even the Prime Minister

has got involved,” he said. “We have the odd one every couple of years. It is something we need to be mindful of.”

The coastguard and a rescue helicopter were called after a member of the public saw a boat

in difficulty on the river about 10.45pm. The boat was found about 100 metres downstream from the bridge. There was a

vehicle and boat trailer nearby and the boat occupants were advised not to drive the vehicle.

About 15 minutes later they were found trying to drive home (by police) and the driver failed a breath test.

Marty said there is nothing in the Maritime Transport Act allowing for alcohol testing of boat drivers (unlike the Land Transport Act).

“We may need to do something about that in the future,” he said. “We’ve had a great season this year, the best ever for people wearing lifejackets. And, touch w o o d , w e ’ v e h a d n o major accidents.”

A “disappointing” five drink-drivers were arrested by the Wanaka Police at the weekend, Sergeant Derek Ealson said.They were caught in the wider Wanaka area, both during the day and at night, through checkpoints and general patrols.“It’s a disappointing number to see. It shows that if you choose to drink and drive, you will be stopped and breath-tested and, if you are found to be over the limit, you will be prosecuted and brought before the court,” Sgt Ealson said.

A 17-year-old Arrowtown man, Hamish Bagley, died when his Subaru Impreza crashed north of the Cluden Hill summit on the Lindis Pass at about 5.30pm on February 16. It is believed the vehicle failed to take a bend and left the road, crashing into a fence and a tree before coming to rest about 30 metres below the road at the bottom of a steep bank and bursting into flames.Hamish, part of the Snow Sports NZ High Performance Development Team, represented New Zealand in snowboard halfpipe at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games.“Hamish was a talented young athlete with a bright future ahead of him. Any young life taken early is tragic and our condolences go out to the Bagley family and his friends,” Snow Sports NZ Chief Executive Marty Toomey said in an online statement.It is believed speed and alcohol were not factors in the crash.

Five arrested

Fatal Lindis car crash

We’ve had a great season this year, the best ever for people

wearing lifejackets. And, touch wood, we’ve had no major accidents.

Two-thirds of Lake Wanaka is now believed to be free of the invasive, exotic lagarosiphon weed.

The lake’s annual check was held last week.

A ten-year plan to reduce the amount of lagarosiphon in the lake began in 2005, after it was discovered the pest – also known as South African oxygen weed - was growing throughout the waterway.

The weed spreads quickly, choking the water body, replacing the native aquatic plants and creating a hazard for lake users.

Otago Regional Council Environmental Monitoring and Operations Director, Jeff Donaldson, said - nine years into the programme - progress was “well ahead of schedule” and only one-third of the lake

was believed to be still affected by the weed.

“There’s now improved access to parts of the lake, for example, at Paddock Bay and Bishops Bay, which were previously restricted by dense weeds. There’s also been some regrowth of native aquatic plants,” he said.

Work to remove the weed would

now move closer to Wanaka township and include Roy’s Bay, Stevenson’s Arm, Glendhu Bay and Paddock Bay.

Suction dredging and hand weeding would be undertaken later this month and the next application of the herbicide diquat, by a helicopter, would take place in early winter.

Weed-free areas of the lake would continue to be monitored to ensure lagarosiphon did not re-establish.

Lake users were strongly urged to continue to remove any weed from their equipment, hose the gear down and dry it after each outing, particularly if they were using it in different waterways.

Lagarosiphon was also in the Clutha River catchment but had not yet been found in Lake Hawea and Lake Wakatipu.

Divers are pictured filming a lagarosiphon weed bed near Lake Wanaka’s Sandspit Point last week. The pictures were beamed up to the boat, where the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research’s Aquatic Ecologist, Mary de Winton, discussed the progress made on removing the weed with members of the Lake Wanaka Lagarosiphon Management Committee.

Offender confessesA Makarora man has escaped with a pre-charge warning from the police, after putting a vibrator among a display of parsnips at Wanaka’s New World early this month.Sergeant Derek Ealson, of Wanaka, said the 51-year-old man came forward after realising he had been identified on the supermarket’s security cameras.“There was no intention from him to deliberately offend anyone but, by his actions, he has caused some people distress and that behaviour is inappropriate.“Police balanced that with what he had to say and what his overall intentions were.”Supermarket staff threw out the parsnips the vibrator had come in contact with.

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Training pups to help epilepticsOne of only 16 dogs in the country trained - or in training - to help a person with epilepsy is being raised in Wanaka.

The New Zealand Epilepsy Assist Dogs Trust’s head trainer, Leone Ward, recently moved to Luggate from Auckland. She has just started training a 13-week-old Labradoodle-Golden Retriever cross, named Baxter (pictured with Leone), to be a support dog for a person with epilepsy.

“Epilepsy assist dogs” were introduced in New Zealand in 2005. They have been used in America and the United Kingdom for about a decade and were recently introduced in Australia. Leone said “settled” breeds, such as Labradors and Golden Retrievers were preferred, and training took up to 18 months.

Like guide dogs, epilepsy assist dogs could go anywhere in public and the training included teaching them to be well-behaved in those situations. It also taught them not to cross a road until instructed by their owner, in case the person had just suffered a seizure and was disorientated. They were trained to lie down

beside their owner if they fell during a seizure, and to fetch a telephone or medication if the person was in distress.

If the owner wished, their dog could be taught to fetch help if the person suffered a seizure at home, but to stay with them if the seizure happened in public.

After an owner and dog had bonded, the dog was sometimes able to sense a seizure was about to occur and alert the person, Leone said.

There were many examples of epilepsy assist dogs helping their owners gain increased confidence, enabling them to live a more normal life.

“In all cases, we’ve found that the dog has made a huge difference to the lives of our recipients. They tell us that they go out more, socialise more, feel safer and have more independence in their lives.”

There were also instances of the dogs saving their owners from injury or death, for example, a woman who fell onto train tracks in Auckland during a seizure. The dog’s distress caught the train driver’s attention and he was able to stop in time, Leone said.

Another man who fell onto a hot barbecue during a seizure was saved from more serious burns when his dog fetched his

daughter to help.“But you can’t teach them to

do that though – it’s the bond that builds up.”

The only other epilepsy assist dog in the South Island was in Nelson.

Leone hoped there was a local person who would benefit from having Baxter, and she would continue to be involved in his training. He was an intelligent dog and she anticipated he would be ready to become an epilepsy assist dog in nine to 12 months.

Epilepsy assist dogs were given to people in need, with the training costs covered by donations.

Leone would be writing a blog about Baxter’s progress, on the New Zealand Epilepsy Assist Dogs Facebook page. She would also like to learn what support was in place for people with epilepsy in the wider Wanaka, Cromwell and Alexandra area, and possibly help to set up a support group.

The New Zealand Epilepsy Assist Dogs Trust was formed b y A n d r e a H a w k l e s s , o f Auckland, after medication and surgery failed to help her epileptic son.

There is a week remaining in the Instagram giga-speed test: the latest giga-competition for supporters to maintain Wanaka’s lead in the year-long campaign to become the first town in the southern hemisphere to access a one gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) internet connection.The theme of the Instagram competition is to convey “what makes fibre better than today’s broadband?” in videos no longer than 15 seconds. Once tagged with the hashtags #gigavideo and #gigatownwka, every eligible video earns 1000 points for the town. One local video entitled “putting in a new driveway broadband-style versus 1Gbs-style” creatively conveys the difference ultrafast broadband speed will have by filming a young boy using a bucket and spade to dig the driveway before panning over to a man with an excavator doing the job.The Instagram competition closes at midnight Thursday February 27.

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Topics ranged from downtown cycle lanes, to clashing events, to tall trees, at the first one-on-one session between the new chair of the Wanaka Community Board and local residents.

Board chairwoman Rachel Brown has started “ d r o p - i n s e s s i o n s ” once a month, at which community members can discuss issues with her. Board members Ross McRobie, Calum MacLeod and Bryan Lloyd also attended the inaugural session.

Eight-people with wide ranging concerns a n d i d e a s t o o k t h e opportunity. Among the problems was the untidy state of Brownston Street, alongside Pembroke Park. Rachel said work on that part of the street had stalled since a council suggestion last year to create 94 “nose-in” car parks between the road carriageway and the park was rejected. The car

parks would have taken up a five-metre-wide strip of the park, along just over half its length, and most submitters opposed impinging on the park. Rachel said a solution which took into account three issues was needed - Brownston Street needed to continue

to be developed as a “through route,” more parking was required in central Wanaka and the park must remain untouched. She had called a meeting of interested parties and hoped they could come up with a plan that “everyone is happy with.”

Cycle lanes were a common theme at the first drop-in session. One resident wanted more cycle lanes in central

Wanaka, expressing concern about the number of people riding their bikes on the footpaths. Another local suggested a network of cycle lanes to enable people to travel by bike throughout Upper Clutha, saying the region could lead the way in the establishment of a South

Island-wide network.The annual clashing

of the Wanaka A and P Show and the Motatapu adventure race was raised by business people who said accommodation providers, in particular, were missing out, as people in town for the busy weekend were forced to stay as far away as Cromwell. They wanted consideration to be given to holding the events on different weekends.

T h e p o t e n t i a l t o expand the existing swimming pool complex on Plantation Road was also discussed; a resident sought advice on their rights when a neighbour’s t ree was impinging o n t h e i r p r o p e r t y ; and the Albert Town Community Association requested an update on landscaping around the township’s lagoon.

Rachel said, as a result of the drop-in session, she had given some projects – including Brownston Street and the Albert Town lagoon – a “hurry along” and board members had advised residents on how to deal with other issues.

“(The residents) were all really happy to have it. There was one comment that this is a pleasingly democratic process,” Rachel said.

The sessions would be held on the f irst Wednesday of every m o n t h , f r o m 1 1 a m u n t i l 1 p m , a t t h e council’s Ardmore Street office.

(The residents) were all really happy to have it. There

was one comment that this is a pleasingly democratic process.

Collecting for Shelter BoxCromwell Rotary Club members were collecting on behalf of Shelter Box last Saturday. Shelter Box offers an immediate response to disaster relief, providing dignity and shelter to those in need. The kit included all the essential items to provide shelter, clean water and cooking facilities. Pictured, collecting at Cromwell New World, are Doreen McKinley and Nick Wood.

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Adam Page returns

Self-described multi-instrumentalist Adam Page is returning to Wanaka next week to take workshops at local schools and perform three shows.

His 2013 Festival of Colour one-man show was a hit, and this visit is a chance for people who missed out to see him.

Adam is best known for his live looping and beat boxing, however, he has also composed works for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with John Psathas. Primarily a

saxophonist, he also loops bass, banjo, clarinet, didgeridoo and his own beard. His music varies in style from jazz and funk to classical and afrobeat.

Adam has performed twice at the Edinburgh

Fringe Fest ival and won numerous awards, including Best Music at the 2011 Adelaide Fringe, and Best Music and Best Solo Show at t h e 2 0 0 9 N e w Zealand Fringe.

The Wanaka Sun has two tickets for Adam’s show at the Hawea Flat Hall at 7pm on Friday February 28 to give away. Enter via email admin@thewanaksun.co.nz or online www.facebook.com/WanakaSun and tell us what unconventional instrument Adam plays.

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Too far from WanakaTheatre fans interested in a play about Minnie Dean will have to go to Cromwell, Queenstown or Twizel to see it, as the production is not coming to Wanaka.

Too Far from Heaven comes from Invercargill company Invers Theatre

and was a hit at both the Well ington and E d i n b u r g h f r i n g e f e s t i v a l s . I t i s n o w touring New Zealand, however, Arts on Tour NZ General Manager Steve Thomas said, despite rave reviews, no one he approached in Wanaka wanted to bring the play here.

Too Far From Heaven

features two historical New Zealanders facing the death penalty – the notorious Winton “baby farmer” Minnie Dean (played by Lizzie Dawson) and World War 1 deserter Victor Spencer (Jade Gillies). Minnie Dean was the o n l y w o m a n e v e r hanged in New Zealand, and Victor Spencer was

a boy from Bluff who forged his age to join the army. Through the play’s narrator/director (Angela Newall), the two main actors tell their stories, which were pieced together from dairy entries and archival material.

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Television and radio personality Marcus Lush will open the W a n a k a A a n d P Show as this year’s celebrity guest.Lush – who presented t h e t e l e v i s i o n p r o g r a m m e s O f f the Rails, South and North – will declare the 77th annual show

open before the grand parade on the second day, Saturday March 8.Olympic medallists Lisa Carrington and Sarah Walker will be celebrity judges at the Beef and Lamb New Zealand Golden L a m b A w a r d s – otherwise known as The Glammies – on Friday March 7 and Chelsea Marriner who a p p e a r e d o n N e w

Zealand’s Got Talent i n 2 0 0 8 a n d 2 0 1 2 with her Dogmatic D o g T e a m , w i l l also attend the show. Country singer Cameron S c o t t , o f Cave, and Wanaka jazz musician Pip Harker will perform.

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Ten records were broken at the Mount Aspiring College swimming sports last week with Noel Bisson and Mitchell Worthington both breaking three each. Both boys broke 50m freestyle and backstroke records in their age groups. Noel also broke the open

individual medley record and Mitchell broke the open butterfly (25m) record.

Other records were broken by Kenzie Findlay - freestyle (50m); Sophie Fairbairn and Matt Henderson - breaststroke (50m); and Wilfred Spearing - backstroke (50m).

C h a m p i o n s h i p s w e r e awarded to: Year 11 - Jack Findlay and Jasmine Murray;

Year 12 - Kobi Stevens and Jamie Toepfer; Year 13 - Gregor Findlay and Caitlin Sanders; 14-15 years – Noel Bisson and Kenzie Findlay; and 16 years - Mitchell Worthington and Hailee Humphrey.

House relays (pictured) were a highlight of the day. Pisa was the overall winner, with Iron second and Roy third.

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Mount Aspiring College student Lillian Cotter,17, (pictured centre) was once a pre-schooler attending Aspiring Beginnings childcare centre (then ABC), and this year she is helping out there as part of the Year 13 Students in the Community programme. This is the second year in a row former “students” have volunteered at the centre.

Under the Students i n t h e C o m m u n i t y

Programme, Year 13 pupils are encouraged to use their skills and passions in a way which benefits people in the wider community.

Since its inception in the early 1990s, students have put in more than 50,000 hours in regular placements and projects around the Upper Clutha. Some visit elderly residents, helping them with things l ike gardening and firewood. Others help with planting and pest control, coach sports or assist with youth groups.

“I think the students

have been brilliant, inspiring even, with their willingness, enthusiasm and creative ideas,” the new programme coordinator Lis Breslin said. She has taken over from Mary Chaffey who was 12 years in the job.

A r o u n d 5 0 M A C students are starting their first placements in the next couple of weeks and upcoming p r o j e c t s i n c l u d e volunteering at the Wanaka A and P show and the Contact Epic race.

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Students from Mount Aspiring College received their highest-ever number of NCEA Merit and Excellence endorsements in 2013, with 46 Merit and 14 Excellence endorsements at Level 1, 31 Merit and 23 Excellence endorsements at Level 2, and 25 Merit and 7 Excellence endorsements at Level 3. Pictured with Principal Wayne Bosley are all current students who received Merit and Excellence endorsements last year.

Aspiring students excel

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inbriefSouthern DHB apologisesSouthern District Health Board apologised to patients yesterday for an IT failure which resulted in mammograms, taken between February 1, 2012, and October 31, 2012, being lost.“I would like to apologise to the 3850 people who received a mammogram in Southland during this time and whose images have been lost,” Southern DHB Chief Executive Officer, Carole Heatly, said.The images were lost due to an incorrectly configured server which failed to back-up the copies of the images. All of the lost images had been read by doctors and their reports remain in each person’s clinical file and there is no change in the outcome from those mammography images.

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Check those bikesWanaka Primary School families with students in Years 4 to 6 are taking advantage of free bike checks at Racers Edge, which are being offered in conjunction with a bike safety programme being held at the school next week.

“Having your bike checked reinforces the message that having fun on a bike starts with a safe bike,” QLDC School Travel Coordinator Kirsty Barr

said. She would like to see bikes inspected before the programme, so children can concentrate on their biking. Safety skills being taught will include balance, manoeuvring, slow riding and giving clear hand signals.

Kirsty is running the “Pedal and Push” programme for the council, in conjunction with the police and Racers Edge.

As well as teaching safe biking, the programme includes a new initiative aimed at Year 1 to 3 children who are riding scooters

to school. “Scooters have got really popular again in the last five years,” Kirsty said. “That’s how a lot of the younger ones want to get to school.”

The safe cycling and scooting initiative is part of an overall travel safety programme at Wanaka Primary School . Other aspects of the programme include safe walking and safe bussing.

Pictured on their bikes are Jodi Voyce and her sons Keltan, 10, and Bryce, 8.

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The first-ever men’s Olympic freeski slopestyle competition was held at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort, Sochi, Russia, last week.

Jossi and Beau-James Wells were among the 32 riders listed in the inaugural event, who had two chances to execute their best run and qualify in one of the 12 spots in the final.

Jossi was tenth to compete and he landed a clean first run, scoring 82.80. Beau-James, the 27th rider, scored 36.00 after an over-rotation on landing the second jump left him on one ski and unable to hit the final jump. His score was 36.00, placing him 22nd at the end of the first run. Jossi was through to the finals with another solid performance on the second run scoring 83.4, while Beau-James landed his new trick - a

double 10 - to score 66.60 and finish 22nd in the qualifying rounds.

In the finals, Jossi was the third rider to compete. The pretzel manoeuvre on the down rail (spin on one way, spin on the rail a different way and then spin off) didn’t go to plan and Jossi couldn’t follow his plan for the final features. He scored 60.60 leaving him in ninth place at the end of the first round. The second round also didn’t go to plan and scoring 50.00, he finished in 11th place.

“Making it through to finals was definitely a good feeling. The level of the riding was really high. I landed a couple of the best runs I’ve done in the slopestyle to get there,” Jossi said. “Unfortunately I didn’t pull through in finals and messed up both runs which was definitely very disappointing.”

Jossi and Beau-James competed in the halfpipe yesterday, joined by another Wanaka skier Lyndon Sheehan (see story page 16). Janina Kuzma will compete in the ladies’ halfpipe tomorrow.

Wanaka-based skeleton racer, Katharine Eustace, also got her first taste of Olympic competition last week, at the Sanki Sliding Centre in the Caucasus Mountains.

She placed 14th overall from heat one and two, and took to the track again on Saturday for day two of the competition.

At speeds of more than 100kph over the 1.8km course, Katharine improved her push time, speed and performance to move up three places and finish, with a combined time of 3.36.21 over four runs, in 11th place.

Closer to home, support for local athletes was out in force (pictured). Deafening cheers filled Wanaka’s New Zealand Winter Olympic Hub (also known as The Lake Bar) last Thursday when local competitors Jossi Wells, Beau-James Wells and Katharine Eustace appeared on the television screens.

Sochi slopestyle, skeleton and support

Four high-profile Wanaka athletes will compete in this year’s Motatapu race from Glendhu Bay to Arrowtown.

Dougal Allan and Gavin Mason have entered the 47km mountain bike event and Simone Maier and Nicky Samuels will contest the Xterra triathlon, comprising a 2km swim, 47km mountain bike and 15km run.

Dougal said the Motatapu would be a training race ahead of his next major event, the Wenzhou Adventure Challenge in China in April.

He is teaming up with two other Wanaka athletes, Braden Currie and Jess Simson – both 2014 Coast

to Coast One-Day champions – and Braden’s brother, Glen Currie of Methven.

The four-day adventure race in China would involve mountain biking, running, kayaking and navigating as a team.

But, while it was a training race, Dougal said he was still hoping to win the Motatapu mountain bike race, which he last competed in in 2007.

“It’s probably quite a short race by my standards, I’m used to racing a bit longer. With races like that I race to win, but it’s not the end of the world if I don’t.”

For Simone, the Motatapu Xterra triathlon was also a training race

ahead of an international event.S h e i s p r e p a r i n g f o r t h e

ironman-distance races in Taiwan and Germany, in April and July respectively. It is the third time she has entered the Motatapu, having competed in the mountain bike race last year and winning the triathlon in 2011.

Her goal was to simply complete the Motatapu, following reconstructive ankle surgery in October.

Simone came third in the professional female category of Challenge Wanaka in January, but said that run was “pretty easy” compared to the Motatapu’s challenging terrain.

“It’s quite a risk but no risk, no fun,” she said.

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Alpine ski racers Adam Hall and Corey Peters competed at the 2014 IPC Alpine Skiing National Championships and the NorAm Cup, held in Aspen, USA, last week.

Adam won a gold medal in the men’s standing super combined event and Corey won a silver medal

in the super combined and the super giant slalom men’s sitting class. With just over two weeks to go until the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games, both men are feeling confident about their performance even though they both posted DNF (did not finish) in one super-G race.

Adam said they would “continue to fine-tune things and turn up to

Sochi the best prepared we can.”

T h e P a r a l y m p i c Games take place from March 7-16. Adam and Corey wi l l compete i n s u p e r - G , s u p e r -combined and slalom. Corey will also compete in giant slalom. Hawea’s Carl Murphy will compete in the new Paralympic d i s c i p l i n e o f snowboard cross.

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sunsportFine tuning for SochiMore multi-sport in Wanaka

Organised by Wanaka women Helen Millar, Pamela de Beer and Margaret West, the Wanaka Experience social tennis competition was back last weekend. Four teams of 12 played on six private courts around Wanaka, including Terry and Dawn Wilson’s grass court in Maungawera Road.

A tennis experience

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A new multi-day, multi-sport event - Red Bull Defiance - will be held in Wanaka, this October. The two-person team race across six high country stations will combine run, kayak and mountain bike elements with target-based shooting and rope work.

Wanaka multi-sport athletes Braden Currie (pictured) and Gavin Mason are involved in the race: Braden helped develop it and Gavin is the race director.

“I was invited to foster the creation and concept behind an event that offers a new facet to multi-sport,” Braden said. “Based on my experience of team stage

racing in China, I was inspired to develop a style of race that offers an epic challenge across a variety of terrains with the additional fun element of racing in a team.”

Day one starts at Minaret Station with a 56km mountain bike ride, followed by a 19km kayak paddle and an 18km run complete with abseiling. The second day starts on Lake Wanaka with a 25km

kayak paddle across the lake and down the Clutha River, followed by a 25km mountain bike ride that includes a target-based shooting activity and finishes with a 25km run.

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EDITORIAL Staff at Wastebusters frequently bear the brunt of the frustration of members of the public who turn up at the transfer station (or what used to be called the “dump”) only to find it closed. The transfer station is run on behalf of the Queenstown Lakes District Council by Otago Southland Waste Services (OSWS). While it may not be economical for the transfer station, and the green waste depot, to be open longer hours, perhaps it would be in the council’s interest to ask the ratepayers what hours would suit them, and make a decision based on that information. Perhaps the council could subsidise the transfer station and green waste depot so they could keep a staff member on until later every day. (It seems probable that later in the day would be preferable to the mornings for most users.)Wanaka has a reputation as being one of the nation’s recycling leaders. Wastebusters would like to see the route to the transfer station being diverted through the its yard so anything recyclable can be salvaged, rather than going to the landfill unnecessarily. Perhaps the council could renegotiate its contract with OSWS and negotiate with the green waste depot, so everyone in town can work together to build on our reputation as a leader in waste management.

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Nimby syndrome

R1-LAST WEEK WAS ‘JUST BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU’ THIS WEEK IT’S HAPPY 21ST (+ 21 + 21 + A FEW YEARS) BIRTHDAY AND WE LOVE YOU!! WE’LL BE RAISING A SPECIAL GLASS OF CO PINOT FOR YOU TOMORROW, HNKS, THE KIDS, R2J2D2M11+JL.

LEAVING DOG POOP IN PLASTIC BAGS ON SIDE OF MT IRON IS WORSE THAN DOING NOTHING WITH THEM. TIME TO BAN DOGS FROM MT IRON.

BEWARE! HAVE AN ACCIDENT AFTER 9PM ON WEEKEND IN WANAKA WHEN AMBULANCE PARAMEDIC NOT AVAILABLE, IT TAKES 7 HOURS TO DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AFTER WAKING UP DOCTOR ALONG THE WAY TO GET PAIN RELIEF.

THE WALDMEL CENTRE UPGRADE LOOKS FANTASTIC . HOPE THERE WILL BE SOME SHADE PLANTING AND THE SIGN GOES BACK UP? HISTORY FOR OLD LOCALS RIGHT THERE

BIG UPS TO THE ONBOARD DJ MIXING IT ON HIS WIFE’S I POD COMING BACK FROM GIBBSTON U OWNED THAT BUS

WALKING AND CYCLING TRACKS WOULD BE A LOT SAFER IF WALKERS KEPT LEFT TO LET OTHERS PASS INSTEAD PANICKING LIKE YOUR AVERAGE BIT OF ROAD KILL. (THINK ABOUT IT)

WHAT AN AMAZING COMMUNITY WE LIVE IN. THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT . SPECIAL THANKS TO TINA A WONDERFUL WOMAN. BELLA`S FAMILY.

ALL VEG THIS WEEK HAS BATTERIES INCLUDED TRY BE 4 U BUY

NEW POOL SHOULD BE MUCH BIGGER THAN PRESENT ONE AND WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF SCHOOLS. RATEPAYER THINKING OF FUTURE GENERATIONS

1 CHIPPY SELLS UNSALTED CHIPS FATTY, SOGGY AND NO FLAVOUR

CAN`T IMAGINE A MOUNTIE STATION WITHOUT A CANADIAN FLAG FLYING. WHY DOES NEW WANAKA POLICE STATION HAVE A POLE AND NO FLAG?

CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET THE BATTERIES INTO THIS PARSNIP

OH NO A VIBRATOR AMONGST THE PARSNIPS. WHERE`S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR. SURELY IT`S HARDLY A POLICE MATTER.

It seems the Nimby (Not In My Backyard) Syndrome has struck again. This time its victims live on Aubrey Road near the new Northlake subdivision. I refer to the ODT article on February 14. Yes it is “about maximising the return to the developers” but by claiming it to be “by the raping and pillaging of our natural environment” is a bit melodramatic. A serious side-affect of Nimby Syndrome is that the sufferer is unable to comprehend that other people would also love to live in this beautiful corner of the world, and they have as much right to as the Nimby sufferer. The future of our town depends on natural growth. None of us should ever assume that Wanaka is for only a select few. We all came here and bought land that was once farmland and built our houses, and for the Nimby sufferers to suggest that it shouldn’t continue is a total contradiction of what they have done. When they look in the mirror, can they honestly say to themselves they believe that what they are saying is a fair and logical argument about the future growth of Wanaka? We all know that Wanaka’s population will grow and we will need more land and more houses to accommodate that growth. For any of us to assume that it won’t be necessary is being very short-sighted. It is going to happen in our back yard and we should welcome it.

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DUTY MANAGER Wanted for Wanaka Districts Club, Call Noel on 0274299330 .

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VEGE BOXES, juice boxes and staff fruit boxes all available at organicexpress.co.nz

PERSONAL LOCATOR Beacons – PLB’s or EPIRB’s are instore or online at MT Outdoors. Useful in a myriad of situations. In the bush or on the lake. www.mtoutdoors.co.nz

WE’VE HAD another PrAna delivery. It’s flying out the door. Gorgeous men’s shorts. Vibrant ladies dresses. Come see at MTOutdoors. www.mtoutdoors.co.nz

GARAGE SALE, house furniture & lots of extras 191 stone street Saturday 1.00pm weather permitting or Sunday .

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WANAKA DISTRICTS Club, for affordable family din-ing and great bar prices. Join for just $ 20 per year.

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CHIEF WILL be at the A n P Show with his books for children 7-8th of March. See You There!

ASK THE guest speaker those nagging questions about dyslexia and learning disabilities. Wednesday 26th February 7.30pm LWC gold coin.

SUPPORT CHILDREN and adults with dyslexia at home and school. Education psychologist Anne Stercq will explain how. 26th Feb Lwc.

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST Anne Stercq will discuss how having a SLD affects lives of adults and children. 26th Feb. LWC. 7.30pm

LEARN HOW specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia affect adults and children. 26th February 7.30pm Armstrong Rm LWC. gold coin.

DYSLEXIA IS a specific learning disability. 1 in 10 people are dyslexic. This impacts on all areas of life.

WANAKA DISTRICTS Club, for affordable family din-ing and great bar prices. Join for just $ 20 per year.

NEW ZEALAND Epilepsy Assist Dogs Trust: Anyone interested in Baxter could contact Leone by emailing leonewrd@gmail.com.

THE AGM of the Wanaka Public Libraries Association is scheduled for 7pm Thursday, 20 February, in the ST John’s Rooms. All are welcome. Come tell us what you want from your Friends of the Library Group.

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DUTY MANAGER Wanted for Wanaka Districts Club, Call Noel on 0274299330 .

TWO BED apartment/house in Wanaka wanted to rent from February. Please call Antony on 022 614 9192.

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HOUSE RENTAL needed from now until Easter for 1 careful tenant and 2 cats please contact Amanda 021 680 110

what’s on PINT SIZED Plays. Original theater starring Wanaka and Queenstown actors. 7pm 2nd March. GinandRaspberry. $10. Audience votes the winner

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LOOKING AFTER YOUR WELLBEING. Workshop for NFP organisations. Wednesday 12 March. To register call Community Networks 034437799

PETANQUE COMPETITION at The Lake Hawea Hotel every Sunday 2pm, Happy Hour drinks, Free nibbles, Bar prizes 443 1224

UNDERSTAND WHAT having a Specific Learning Disabilities means. Guest speaker Wednesday February 26th 7.30pm Armstrong Rm LWC. Gold coin.

WANAKA FARMERS Market on Pembroke Park every Thursday from 3-6 pm

‘COMMUNICATE FOR LIFE’ two day Personal Development course. Learn invaluable life skills in this award winning course. March 22/23 www.yourlifeliveit.com | jodie@yourlifeliveit.com

LALALAND WANAKA. Great drinks on our out-door deck with lake views. Open daily 4pm – late. Level 1, 99 Ardmore Street

TOO FAR From Heaven, a play about ‘baby farmer’ Minnie Dean and World War 1 deserter Victor Spencer, on show in Queenstown (March 4), Cromwell (March 5) and Twizel (March 24). Contact local I-sites for bookings.( Prices $5-$20).

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WANAKA BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS. Championship Pairs 3. Silver Sec-tion. North/South:-Sherril Harries, Mo Schofield 63.14% 1. Dawn & Terry Wilson 61.29% 2. Michael Chapman-Smith, Peter Recordon 61.00% 3. East/West:- Dorothy McDonald, Nan Ot-trey 60.43%1. Marion Furneaux, Jenny Pryde 56.71%2. Judy Cook, Lyn How-son 55.29% 3. Bronze Section. North/South:- Noeline Goldsbrough, Heather Wellman 61.49% 1. Jean Logan, Marion Murphy60.87% 2. Pauline Davidson, Jane Hamilton 58.70% 3. East/West:- Suzanne Ewing, Helen Mathewson 64.91% 1. Annette Clements, Sue Or-bell and Lawrie & Margaret Stenhouse 57.76 2= Friday Bridge. 14 February. North/South:- Ena Leckie, Deirdre Lynch 69.82% 1. Elizabeth Irvine, Jill Millar 56.49% 2. Lyla & Bryan Hensley 54.04% 3. East/West:- Gordon & Gail Freeman 63.12% 1. David Brewer, Mag-gie Stratford 56.65% 2. Sherril Harries, Mo Schofield 55.89% 3. Clutha Pairs. 12 February. North/South:- Pauline Davidson, Peter Hart 66.17% 1. Wendy & Alan Cruden 58.25% 2. Jason Beaton, Lynne Fegan 53.25% 3. Blair & Ruth Coghill 52.25% 4. East/West:- Lynne Clay, Michael Metzger 61.67%1. Debbie Brent, John Mercer 58.33% 2. Lawrie & Margaret Stenhouse 55.83% 3. Richard & Annie Freeman 54.83% 4.

LAKE HAWEA GOLF RESULTS. 16.2.14. Mt Maude Stableford. Men 1st. Dick Sullivan 46. 2nd. Dougal Rowley. 44. 3rd. Neil Matchett. 42. 4th. Bryan Burgess. 41. 5th. Steve Innes 40. o/cb. Warren Taylor 40. Ladies.1st. Linda Os-borne. 40. Closest pin. No. Dick Sullivan.

THE WANAKA GUN CLUB held the L G Taylor memorial 100 skeet competi-tion on Saturday 15th Feb. Results .1st 50 skeet. A grade,50, H Worker, L Rog-ers, 49, G Taylor, C Pirie, 47, R Anderson, F McGarvie. B grade, 46, D Smith, 44, J Healy 43, P Nelson. C grade, 38, C Scott. Ruth Bennie. 2nd 50 skeet. A grade, 50, H Worker, 49 C Pirie,48, G Taylor, B grade 47, J Healy, D Smith, B McGarvie, 45, P Nelson. C grade, 81, Ruth Bennie 76, C Scott. High overall off the gun, H Worker 100/100. High overall Handi-cap, H Worker after a 127 target shoot off with Grant Taylor. Off the gun 2 per-son team winners were Clark Pirie and Lindsay Rogers on 195, and Handicap 2 person team winners were Ruth and Ewen Bennie with 201. WANAKA BOWLS RESULTS Week ending 14: 02:14 Friday Progressive 14:02 :.14 Skip 1st Betty Russell 2nd Brian Holmes 3rd George Russell Third 1st Meryl Firman 2nd John Barton 3rd Roy Walker Lead 1st Rob Mathewson 2nd Jon Barron 3rd Neville Dippie

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Local athletes Jossi Wells, Beau-James Wells and Lyndon Sheehan all made it through to the finals of the men’s freeski halfpipe at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi yesterday morning. The qualifications took place from 2.45am, with the field of 28 competitors having two runs to post their best score and qualify to the top 12 for the finals.

With an impressive first run, Jossi was the best of the local contingent, scoring 85.60 and, placing fourth, just missed out on an Olympic medal. “I’m feeling pretty happy,” Jossi said after the

competition. “I definitely skied the best pipe runs I’ve done ever. I’m really happy with how I skied tonight; that’s what I came

out here to do. I didn’t have any expectation tonight. To land those runs I did I was really, really happy.”

Beau-James Wells cleaned up his execution from the first run to score 80.00 in the second run and finish his Olympic

campaign in sixth place. Lyndon also had a better second run to post 72.60 and finished in ninth place.

Byron Wells, who finished fourth at the Olympic test event in 2013, was forced to withdraw from the halfpipe competition d u e t o a n i n j u r y s u s t a i n e d i n training earlier this week.

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Three representatives from Wanaka Yacht Club made the podium at the Dunedin Festival Regatta held at Port Chalmers Yacht Club last weekend.Rick Sanders was second and Sean Dickey was third in the starling class, and Nicola Sanders was second in the optimist class. Competitors were towed out on the first day of racing as there was no wind, while on Sunday conditions were at the other extreme with whitecaps and 20-knot wind gusts.

Rebecca “Bex” Sinclair competed in the women’s snowboard halfpipe in Sochi last Wednesday in a field of 28 riders.Bex was in the first heat of 14 riders. The top three qualified for the finals, while riders four to nine qualified for the semi-final rounds. With a first run score of 32.2, after crashing on her “crippler” trick, she finished in 13th place. She again crashed out on her second run to finish in 11th place, missing out on a qualifying spot, with a score of 48.25.“This was definitely not the result we were hoping for at all and definitely not the result Bex is capable of,” coach Tom Willmott said. “We’re really gutted, she’s really disappointed.”

I definitely skied the best pipe runs I’ve done

ever. I’m really happy with how I skied tonight; that’s what I came out here to do.

Winton Davies, who is a retired senior police chaplain and hospital chaplain, competed at the New Zealand Masters’ Games in Dunedin on February 1. Just one year after taking up the sport of golf croquet, Winton secured the silver medal at the games. He hopes to compete at next year’s games in Wanganui.

I t w a s a l o n g b u t s u c c e s s f u l d a y f o r Wanaka multi-sporters Braden Currie and Jess Simson who both won the Speight’s Coast to Coast One-Day event on Saturday.

Jess (pictured), in her first attempt at the one-day event, beat two-time champion Elina Ussher, of Nelson. Jess, leading from the start, had an 11-minute lead over Elina in the run. Elina reduced the gap to three minutes during the kayak stage but, on the final cycle, Jess took back almost 14 minutes to

win in a time of 13:12:24. Jess spent more than 30 minutes in the medical tent after she finished, d u r i n g w h i c h t i m e Elina claimed second in 13:26:10. Waipukurau’s Anyika Thomson was in third place in 13:54:46.

Defending champion Braden Currie left the lead bunch of ten men after the 55km cycle and proceeded to open up a commanding lead on the run. After two hours on the run course, cresting Goat Pass, he had a 13-minute lead on five-time champion Richard Ussher and increased his lead to 21 minutes at the next transition. Richard continued to

press, closing the gap by two minutes during the kayak stage, and at the Waimakariri Gorge Bridge he got out of the kayak 17 minutes behind. On the final 70k cycle Braden retained his lead and, more than 11 hours after he left Kumara Beach, he crossed the finish line at Sumner Beach, followed 20 minutes later by Richard in 11:39:19.

“He was just faster all day,” Richard said. “I didn’t think he would get that far ahead in the run and then he held on all day. He had a great race.”

Glen Currie finished i n t h i r d p l a c e , 1 8 minutes behind Richard.

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