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Suicide prevention and intervention will be the focus of a series of community evenings throughout Central Otago next week. Get-togethers will be held in Cromwell, Alexandra, Ranfurly, Queenstown and Wanaka, and will focus on suicide prevention centred on family and the community. As Janice Millis, one of the initiators of the evenings, explained, “We need to get back to good old-fashioned communities, where people know each other and look out for each other.”

Each meeting would feature two guest speakers, Maria Bradshaw of Auckland and Julie Duffy of Alexandra. Both women lost their only sons when the young men took their own lives. Maria is the co-founder of CASPER (Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research), a peer network that provides support to families bereaved by suicide and promotes social models of suicide prevention.

Janice said that representatives from social services would be on hand, as well as the police, to offer assistance to anyone who needed it. There would also be a drop box, where individuals could leave a question and a phone number so they could be contacted later.

She added the community had been highly supportive of the evenings, with all of the venues offering discounts and media outlets providing advertising at reduced rates. Central Lakes Trust had been a primary source of funding for the talks. “There has been a good community feel about it all,” she said.

And while there was no “quick fix”, strong communities could be a positive factor in prevention, as evidenced by a fall in the suicide rate

after the Christchurch earthquakes, when neighbours checked on each other and volunteers went door to door offering support, Janice said.

Janice said the suicide prevention and intervention meetings could be one starting point for Wanaka and other communities in working together to

address problem that was often seen as “taboo”. “Let’s start having a chat as a community about how we can help,” she said.

Greg Dobson, manager of Supporting Families (SF) Central Otago, who has been working on suicide prevention in the region, said the evenings were a very positive step. “I’m really supportive of anything that can save a life,” he said. SF Central Otago was planning to run future workshops

in the area to continue promoting suicide awareness and to upskill community members in identifying suicide risk factors and in knowing what to do if they appeared.

The Suicide Prevention and Intervention Community Evening in Wanaka will be held on Wednesday September 4 in the Armstrong Room at Lake Wanaka Centre. Entry is free.

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The Wanaka Gun Club team of Lex Jocelyn, Jeff Cray, Ray Anderson, Brian Swan, Denis Nyhon, Cameron Meikle and Aaron Radford were among the locals hosting last weekend’s annual Bodkin Shield Trophy match.

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We need to get back to good old-fashioned communities, where people

know each other and look out for each other.For anyone needing help, support is currently available from Lifeline New Zealand (0800 543 354) and Youthline (0800 376 633). Both offer confidential telephone counselling. Locally, those in need can contact services such as Central Otago Mental Health on 03 440 4308, Upper Clutha Women’s Support on 443 1448 or Kahu Youth on 443 5880.

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Two meetings at local primary schools next week will give parents and other members of the community a chance to share ideas about safe travel for children. The get-togethers are part of the Queenstown Lakes School Travel Plan Programme, a joint partnership between council, schools and parents aiming to make walking, cycling and busing easier and safer for schoolchildren.

The first meeting will be held in the Holy Family School staff room between 1.30 and 3pm on Monday, August 26; a second will start at 7pm in the Wanaka Primary School staff room on Wednesday, August 28.

Kirsty Barr, travel

plan coordinator for QLDC, said all would be welcome to attend, and police, council engineers and school representatives would be on hand to discuss travel issues. “We’re

looking for initiatives that we can take to make walking, cycling and busing safe and fun,” she said.

Kirsty added that walking and cycling numbers were up at

Wanaka Primary since the school moved to its new site, with initiatives such as the Mount Iron walking bus proving very successful. Holy Family School, which attracted students from a wide area, had high numbers of students who bused, while cycling and busing were very p o p u l a r a t H a w e a Flat School.

All three primary schools have been implementing school travel plans since 2009. Pictured in October last year is the local walking bus in action: QLDC transport manager Denis Mander with pupils Leon Kerr, Shanae Sanders, Erina Tamati, Hadley Tamati, Daisy S a n d e r s , L o r r a i n e Knowles (volunteer), Tana Hansen (obscured) and Oban Hansen.

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Library survey underway

Election nominations received

The public have until the end of August to take part in a survey on what they want from their libraries. The survey is being done by the Wanaka Public Libraries Association (WPLA).“We want input from the community,” WPLA chair Nicola Martinovich said. “We want to know what people enjoy and what they want from their library.” The survey is for the Wanaka, Hawea and Makarora libraries, and the association would like feedback from people in Tarras and Luggate too. Nicola said the survey will help the association plan its future activities.The survey can be found on the WPLA facebook page.

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Safe travels to school

Missing Hawaiin skier Toby Kravet was found outside the Treble Cone ski area during an aerial search on T u e s d a y m o r n i n g and flown to Wanaka Medical Centre. A g r o u n d s e a r c h b y

Treble Cone ski patrol and an aerial search by Aspiring Helicopters and manned by Land SAR members began on Monday afternoon when the 72-year-o l d w a s r e p o r t e d missing. The search

t h e n c o n t i n u e d through the night using a Hel iworks helicopter and night vision equipment as well as a ground team.

Toby suffered two broken legs when he skied into a snow drift

in poor visibility, but he had kept himself w a r m a n d a w a k e al l night in below zero temperatures managing to ward off hypothermia. Toby is now in Dunedin undergoing treatment.

A group of ten Wanaka s m o k e r s w h o w a n t t o q u i t a r e b e i n g sought for a national competition.

The Whanau End S m o k i n g R e g i o n a l Whanau Ora challenge (WERO) involves teams of ten smokers, who compete to have the most quitters after three months, with a prize of $5000 cash for a charity or community

group of their choice.“ S m o k e r s s h o u l d

e i t h e r c r e a t e t h e i r own team or register o n t h e w e b s i t e , ” Trish Fraser, WERO Regional Coordinator f o r O t a g o a n d Southland said.

The competit ion, starting on September 1, was developed by the Centre for Tobacco Control Research at The University of Auckland

a s p a r t o f a n e w research programme, the Tobacco Control Research Taranga. It has been piloted in Northland and Hawkes Bay with 41.2 percent of participants quitting after three months. The national competition h a s j u s t r e c e i v e d funding for three years.

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Queenstown Lakes District council has announced the nominations for the 2013 local election. Al Angus and Vanessa van Uden have been nominated for the mayoral vacancy. Nominations for the three Wanaka Ward positions are Jude Battson, Liz Breslin, Lyal Cocks, Ella Lawton, Bryan Lloyd, Calum MacLeod and Leigh Overton. There are four vacancies for the Wanaka community Board with Rachel Brown, Barry Bruce, Bryan Lloyd, Ross McRobie and Michael O’Connor nominated. Dick Kane is the sole nomination for Central Otago Health (Wanaka Ward).

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It took 17 years, but a Wanaka couple finally tied the knot on Monday almost two decades after getting engaged.

Kate Bariletti and Jan Janata said “I do” at the Alexandra Courthouse on August 19, the day the Marriage Amendment Act came into effect. They were one of 31 same-sex couples across New Zealand to get married that day, and the first in Central Otago.

Kate is originally from Seattle in the United States and Jan is a New Zealander. The couple met on a cruise in Alaska. A brief long distance relationship ensued, encompassing England, Africa and America, before Jan proposed to Kate. They bought rings only a month after first meeting.

While their wedding day was an important personal event, both women were highly aware of the history of the moment. “It’s an equality thing. It’s about human rights,” Jan said. Both noted that the staff at the Registrar, including Christine Forde, who conducted the ceremony, and her co-worker Rosalie Rodgers, did everything to make the historic ceremony “just right”.

Kate and Jan had watched the passage of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill live on television, and recorded it for posterity. That day, Jan said, “I was proud of New Zealand.”

Kate remembers life as a gay woman in Seattle in the 1970s as difficult. Holding hands with a female partner in public invited harassment, including from the police. “It has come further than I ever thought it would come,” she said. “It’s unbelievable,” Jan agreed. “For our generation to

see the younger generation come through without the same extent of hassles is wonderful.”

This is the second time Kate and Jan will be in the history books – they were also the first couple in Central Otago to join in a same-sex Civil Union, in 1995, the first weekend after that bill came into effect. While it was nice to have their relationship

recognised then, Kate said getting married “felt different.”

The couple celebrated after the ceremony with lunch in town, a visit to the Wanaka Library, of which Kate has been an active supporter, and a reception in Wanaka with close friends. “It couldn’t have been more perfect,” Kate said, with Jan adding, “we laughed all day.”

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The Wanaka Community Board granted approval for six new road names for proposed roads within the Northlake subdivision off Aubrey Road at its meeting on Tuesday. The road names - Mount Ida Place, Northburn Road, Glenaray Crescent, Mount Linton Avenue, Glenfellen Place and Nokomai Street – are all taken from the names of high country stations located in Otago and Southland.

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Call for comments on council library reviewThe Queenstown Lakes District Council is asking for comments from community members on draft terms of reference for a proposed district-wide library review. The scope of the review would be to consider all aspects of library services across the district, including the range of services provided, costs, staffing and space. According to QLDC general manager operations Ruth Stokes,

the council would be “seeking to appoint a suitably qualified independent consultant to lead the review.” The proposal included a public forum modeled on ‘Shaping Our Future’. No timeline had yet been established for the appointment of a consultant or for the review to begin.

T h e d r a f t t e r m s o f r e f e r e n c e a n d instructions for how to

comment can be found on the QLDC website. Comments close on Friday August 30.

M e a n w h i l e , t h e Wanaka Public Libraries Association is conducting an independent survey of library services in the Wanaka ward, including Makarora, Hawea and Wanaka. The survey is live until the end of August, and can be accessed at the WPLA Facebook page.

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A District Plan change r e q u e s t l o d g e d earl ier this month c o u l d i n t r o d u c e 1600 sections onto the Wanaka property market if permitted.

Referred to as the N o r t h l a k e S p e c i a l zone in its application,

219.26 hectares of land on either side of the Outlet Road currently designated as Rural Residential and Rural General land would be re-zoned to allow up to seven dwellings a hectare.

Publically notified

on August 1, 2013, details of the proposal c a n b e p u b l i c a l l y viewed at the QLDC o f f i c e s a n d u n d e r Plan Change 45 on the QLDC website. Submissions on the plan change request close on August 30.

Lakeshore reserve managementThe Wanaka Community Board has recommended to the QLDC a hearing panel be appointed to consider a draft reserve management plan for the Wanaka area.The 34 recreation and local purpose reserve areas adjoining Lake Wanaka from Glendhu Bay to the Outlet Camp make up 378 hectares of land and council are increasingly being asked permission to use them for structures and activities.The community board suggested that rather than preparing a plan for each individual reserve area, it is recommended that an omnibus plan be prepared that will cover all the reserves.

Community board vacancyThe position of recently deceased Wanaka Community Board member Ken Copland will remain vacant without a replacement due to upcoming elections.The board meeting on Tuesday acknowledged his tragic death, but resolved that due to the proximity of the election on October 12, it would not fill the vacancy.The Local Electoral Act, 2001, states that if a position becomes vacant in 12 months or less from an election the board can decide to either appoint a person qualified to be elected or resolve the vacancy not be filled.

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New playgroup for Luggate

Top choir in townSt Columba’s Anglican Church will host the globally-recognised choir of the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, Dunedin this Sunday. The choir will be singing music by William Byrd, including his ‘Mass for Five Voices’ at the 9:30am Choral Eucharist, followed by an 11:30am half-hour concert based around the theme of ‘Music for the Church’s Year’. This will largely be comprised of 20th Century music by composers such as Howells and Britten, as well as a work composed by the choir’s own Richard Madden.George Chittenden, director of music for the choir, said, “we’re looking forward very much to singing at the Anglican Church, and possibly to enjoying a spot of skiing as well.” Over the past two decades, eight members of the choir have gone on to professional vocal careers and several others have pursued international careers in opera.

A pile of dirt blocking vehicle access on the Cardrona riverbed is hopefully the final stage in one resident’s battle against illegal dumping.

Jonny Mayen has taken matters into his own hands after repeatedly finding large loads of household r e f u s e , a n i m a l carcasses and broken glass strewn on land bordering his Riverbank

Road property.In the past few weeks,

he has managed to contact the owners of some of the trash through mail labels and other evidence, but the problem has continued so on Monday he got his tractor into action and blocked the track into the area.

He said he’s received a huge amount of public support for his efforts to find the owners of the rubbish, including assistance to identify

one dumper whose car registration details were found amongst a trailer road of rotting nappies and beer bottles.

The car owner claimed “his flatmate” had been given money for dump fees, but had instead had elected to drive past the Ballantyne Road facility and drive up the Cardrona riverbed track and empty it onto the ground.

Hours after that pile had been removed, a metal flue from an

outdoor fireplace and damaged road signs, ironically warning of hazards, were left there.

Jonny said he had contacted the QLDC on several occasions but no action had been taken and so felt he had no choice.

“If people want to walk their dogs, they can walk them, but when vehicles go in there to leave smashed glass and rubbish it’s dangerous and it’s just disgusting.”

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Two local mothers have re-established a playgroup in Luggate. Jules Stahlhut and N i c o l a P l u m r i d g e have starting running playgroup sessions from 10am to 11.30am every Saturday at the Luggate Hall. Tea and

coffee are provided, a s w e l l a s b a k i n g , t h o u g h J u l e s s a i d parents were welcome to bring additional snacks. Entry is by gold coin donation.

Jules said the number of young children in Luggate was growing, and it was a good time to get a playgroup going again. “There are a

lot of young families moving into the area now,” Jules said.

The last Luggate playgroup was started 22 years ago by local Plunket nurse Helen Umbers, but has not been active for about ten years.

J u l e s a d d e d t h a t she was interested i n g e t t i n g o l d e r

m e m b e r s o f t h e community involved, perhaps retired people w h o d i d n ’ t h a v e grandchildren in the area. “We’d love for them to come along and read a story and have a cuppa,” she said.

T h e p l a y g r o u p organisers were also asking for donations of toys and other items.

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The last airworthy World War II Avro will fly at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow next April.

Owned by Bill and Robyn Reid of Nelson, the aircraft u n d e r w e n t a t e n - y e a r r e s t o r a t i o n p r o c e s s . T h e turret and military equipment had been re-installed and the aircraft had been painted to represent a machine that flew with 206 Squadron of the Royal Air Force.

Bill, a veteran helicopter pilot who flew in the early venison recovery days, was delighted the aircraft would be flying at Wanaka for the 2014

airshow. “[The restoration] has basical ly been about ten years but it seems to be ongoing ... it’s been a quarter of my working life,” he said.

The twin-engine aircraft w e r e a p o p u l a r c o a s t a l reconnaissance bomber that performed anti-submarine, convoy protection and crew training duties. Around 11,000 were produced between 1935 and 1952 and it may have been one of the first aircraft flown in combat by a New Zealander in World War II.

The 2014 airshow takes place on April 18, 19 and 20 at Wanaka Airport.

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Rodeo finals mean busy weekend Trust funding The Otago Community Trust donated $334,395 to 48 organisations throughout Otago last month. Local organisations to receive grants were Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust ($5000) and Alpine Community Development Trust ($10,000). The Trust assists charitable community projects and services which provide a public benefit and do not result in private financial gain.

New Zealand titles for bull riding and saddle bronc as well as six other events will be contested at Wanaka’s purpose built Albert Town facility early next year.

The Wanaka Rodeo Club has been chosen to host the New Zealand National Finals Rodeo on March 8 and 9, 2014, for the first time since 2001.

The top eight competitors in each of the eight events, including bull riding and saddle

bronc, will be competing for the national titles.

The National Finals event is

the culmination of 26 rodeos held over six months and competitors will be fighting

for a total purse of $40,000. Marty Deans, President of the NZ Rodeo Cowboys Association,

said the Wanaka Rodeo Club had put a strong proposal together to host the prestigious event.

“The A&P Show is on the same weekend, so it’s going to be busy,” Wanaka Rodeo Club President Lyal Cocks said, “but it is great for Wanaka to be hosting an event like this as it will bring another group of people to town and will give many of the visitors a good reason to stay in Wanaka a little longer.”

The Upper Clutha A&P Show will be held on Friday March 7 and Saturday March 8. The off-road sporting event, Motatapu, will also be held on the same weekend (Saturday March 8).

It is great for Wanaka to be hosting an event like this as it will bring

another group of people to town and will give many of the visitors a good reason to stay in Wanaka a little longer.

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National win for Wanaka recipeA Wanaka-based

food writer and recipe developer has won a national recipe competition. Sarah Wadsworth, who works as a breakfast chef and baker for a local lodge, won the Special Occasion category in the New Zealand Food Writers’ Recipe Competition run

by Deer Industry New Zealand and Vegetables.co.nz with her recipe for Fresh Asian Salad with Miso Glazed Venison Medallions (pictured). Entrants had to devise a recipe that uses farm-raised venison and fresh New Zealand grown vegetables.

As a winner, her recipe will be used to promote New Zealand venison and vegetables here and overseas.

Originally from California, Sarah has been based in Wanaka for the past year. She is also a freelance food writer and r u n s h e r o w n website.

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Dungarvon plans imminentDamage, drunks, opportunistic theftsPolice have received a number of reports of damage and theft of site signage and road cones. The incidents often occur at night creating a safety hazard for vehicles.

Three drivers in the Wanaka area were prosecuted for drink driving over the past week resulting in a loss of licence.

Police have also reported a number of “opportunistic thefts” of items such as cellphones in the past week.

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Birthday number 102 for MavisWith birthday celebrations starting last Friday, Wanaka’s Mavis Walker turned 102 on Saturday surrounded by friends and four generations of family. Flowers and gifts from well-wishers and correspondence from the Queen and Prime Minister John Key also reaffirmed her position as Elmslie House’s most senior resident.

“It was kind of the Queen to make the trouble,” she said.

Originally from Winton, Mavis’s connection with Wanaka dates back to 1935 when she worked as a nurse for the Scaife family in Glendhu Bay. The Walker family always kept homes in the area and now her son John and his wife Heather, grand-daughter Caroline and husband Mark Cruden and great-grandsons Joe, 3, and George, 1, live here permanently.

When Mavis celebrated her 100th birthday she had recently returned from a trip to Turkey,

but in the past two years she joked her only travels had been the move from her cottage in town to a room in Elmslie House.

Pictured here with her regular family visitors of John, Caroline and Joe, she is also kept company by a black cat which she adopted

from a former resident and refers to as ‘Traitor’ for its habit of leaving her room to visit other residents.

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Development plans for an estimated 25 to 27 houses on the old Wanaka Primary School site are expected to be revealed in a few weeks’ time when resource consent is lodged with the QLDC.

The 16,200sqm site levelled between Tenby and Warren streets is permitted by the current district plan to allow for up to 36 titles on 450sqm sections, but the majority of houses will be on larger sites, project manager Dan Curley said.

The proposed houses will be within the allowable maximum height of seven metres.

Called ‘Dungarvon’ after another street which borders the property, Dan said there had been an estimated 20 expressions of interest in the development with a number of current Wanaka residents among them.

Dan said he did not want to publicise the concept plans until resource consent was lodged and was still unsure if it would be a notified process. The houses planned will all be on separate

titles with “overarching” design constraints on construction and their locations to allow view shafts to the lake on the elevated site, he said. The sale price of the individual properties and the architectural and design team had yet to be confirmed with construction estimated to be starting in 2014 he said.

The property is owned by Lane Hocking who bought

it from Ngai Tahu in May of this year for an undisclosed sum. Originally from Dunedin, Lane is also the owner of Rob Rosa and Heartland Stations in the Cardrona Valley and the Wanaka and Central Otago franchise of David Reid Homes. The construction company’s crew will build the houses on the site, however they will have unique designs and specifications

following consultation between purchasers and the architectural team chosen for the project, Dan said.

There had been a positive response from neighbours so far, and a large amount of building materials such as rimu timber and other items from the old school buildings had been collected by Wanaka residents with the owner’s permission, he said.

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Taffy has been reunited w i t h h i s o w n e r B i l l thanks to an article in last week’s Wanaka Sun. The chocolate Burmese cat had been lodging in the Wanaka Veterinary Centre for 11 days before he was featured in the newspaper and his owner found immediately . Bill and Taffy, who are f r o m R i v e r t o n , h a d been visiting family in

Hawea Flat when Taffy went missing.

According to Kate S m e l t z o f W a n a k a Veterinary Centre the best chance of locating your missing pet is by getting it micro-chipped.

“ W e c o u l d h a v e tracked down Taffy’s owner much sooner if he was micro-chipped,” she said.

Microchips contain

a unique identification c o d e t h a t c a n b e recorded in national computer databases. When an animal is lost, the microchip can be scanned with a portable scanner and the code can be checked to identify the owner.

Just in case Taffy goes missing again, Bill had h i m m i c r o - c h i p p e d before leaving Wanaka.

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Daniela visits TarrasDaniela Bauer is originally from Austria but moved to Australia where she is now the Australian Half-Pipe Champion, and Tarras School was lucky enough to have a fantastic visit from her. The 27-year-old champion skier started skiing at the age of two and now she skis all over the world at competitions. She has trained at Cardrona for the past seven years and will be competing for the first time at an Olympic event at the February 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. The students asked lots of questions and thoroughly enjoyed her visit. They all got her signature and a picture. They will follow her in the Olympics and cheer for her.

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Week five of the Have a Heart campaign, and here’s where the rubber hits the road… Your personal opportunity to support Community Networks is right here in today’s Wanaka Sun: It’s so easy! The enclosed brochure summarises all the wonderful ways Community Networks serves the Upper Clutha as a one-stop social service centre. It lets you know we have set a $30,000 fundraising goal for this appeal. It

provides old-fashioned, n e w - f a n g l e d , a n d personal methods of donating.

There’s a deadline of September 6 to have your donation count toward the Have a Heart appeal. Of course financial support is welcome year-round, but we are encouraging people to donate in the next fortnight.

T h e A l p i n e Community Development Trust, w h i c h o p e r a t e s Community Networks, is a charitable trust

that is always looking forward to ensure CN services are meeting community needs. In this role of community and social development, we identify areas of need or gaps in service to our community, and facilitate research that leads to assistance in these areas.

The Older People’s Needs Assessment is an example of research that ACDT commissioned, sought funding for and conducted in 2012-13. The result is valuable data about the practical,

social and emotional needs of older residents in Wanaka. Research like this guides which social services CN and other organisations provide now and in the future.

Your opportunity to support Community Network’s future is now. What are you waiting for?? Have a look at the brochure enclosed in today’s paper and consider how you can help us keep helping people in our community. Thank you!

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Swimmers vs waterski laneF e e d b a c k o n a proposal to extend the public swimming a r e a t h r o u g h t h e removal of a water-ski access lane in

Roys Bay, is being sought by the Wanaka Community Board.

The existing ski lane is approximately 100m long, extending

from Edgewater to M o r r o w s M e a d . A QLDC notice said the lane represents “a potential conflict and safety issues

w i t h t h e p o p u l a r s w i m m i n g a r e a . ” F e e d b a c k o n t h e p r o p o s a l c l o s e s o n S e p t e m b e r 13, 2013.

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Quick response controls blazeThe Lake Hawea Volunteer Fire Brigade, with back-up from two additional fire appliances from Wanaka, responded to a call-out on the Lake Hawea-Albert Town Road yesterday afternoon.A fire had engulfed one section of the Maungawera Lodge containing the garage, but the rest of the lodge was saved from the fire. About 20 of local volunteers attended the fire, with fire engines from Lake Hawea and Wanaka joined by Luggate’s rural fire tanker and Central Machine Hire’s rural fire tanker helping to put the blaze out.


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Well deserved winThe Mount Aspiring College first XV rugby team played their best game of the season to beat James Hargest High School in Invercargill on Saturday. MAC lead 22-5 at half time on their way to their first win in the Highlanders competition. The points came from flanker Elliot Mason (pictured) who got two tries, Rube Peina scored a try with goal kicking by Josh Roberts.The James Hargest team cut the lead to two points in the second half with minutes to play but a late try to player of the day Ellis Myer-Budge sealed the win at 29 -22.

Runners ready for nationals

Wanaka based runners Oska Inster-Baynes and Lorenz Kissling have had promising results leading up to the national 10km road running championships in Dunedin at the end of this month.

Oska, pictured here training on Pembroke Park, placed second overall and first in the

under 23 age group in last weekend’s Canterbury championships. Based in Wanaka but racing for the New Brighton Olympic Athletics club Oska’s time of 31:29 was just under a minute behind fellow club member and nationally ranked number two for the distance, Callan Moody who won in 30:36.

Oska has run under 30 minutes for the distance in other events but said

a hairpin on the ten lap course slowed the overall times for the race.

Running a personal best t ime of 33:28, Lorenz had the fastest time for the under-20 age group 10km road race between Clyde and Alexandra. Unfortunately a registration mix-up saw him officially entered in the open division where he placed eighth so he was unable to receive a medal for his efforts.

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It’s a wrap for the World Heli Challenge

The 2013 World Heli Challenge wrapped last weekend, with event director Tony Harrington delighted with the outcome of this year’s event, despite the cancellation of the Extreme Day due to “a multitude of weather and snow conditions.”

This is only the second time in the Heli Challenge’s 15-year history that the full two heli-accessed competition days, the Freestyle Day and the Extreme Day, have not been run. However, Tony emphasised the cancellation “in no way detracted from the results of finding the best freeskier and rider” in the event.

The Freestyle Day ran on Monday, August 12 on Mount Turner with a field of 22 skiers a n d s n o w b o a r d e r s f r o m around the world competing on previously unridden heliski terrain.

The highlight of this year’s competition for Tony had been the “mind boggling” amount of quality television content that had been filmed. He anticipated that footage from the Heli Challenge would be seen by

more than 600 million viewers globally, garnering more than 2000 hours of television coverage. This would include a one-hour show to be aired 16 times in Australia, and Australian film tour and a half-hour programme to be shown in Europe, Asia and North America.

As well as of skiing and

snowboarding, footage had been shot of the athletes surfing at Riverton, river surfing on the Hawea play wave, as well as canyoning and parapenting.

Some of this would be screened at the iON Showcase Awards Night tonight at Lake Wanaka Centre. The evening, which Tony described as a “film festival on

steroids”, would include awards in the Canon Shootout (film and photography), as well as winners from the Freestyle Day and overall winners. For the first time this year, skiers and snowboarders will be pitted against each other, with one competitor to be named the overall top snowsports athlete.

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WHAT DO YOU CALL TWO CROWS ON A BRANCH? ATTEMPTED MURDER.

I’M QUITE AMUSED AT THE AMOUNT OF WINGING ABOUT THE SPEED HUMPS IN TOWN.YEP THERE HUMPS FOR PEOPLE TO WALK ON…AWESOME! AS A DRIVER IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO KEEP WATCH..NOT HARD REALLY.

FAR OUT PEOPLE. CAN WE CHANGE THE RECORD FROM ROUNDABOUTS AND SPEED HUMPS? IT IS JUST GETTING BORING AND POINTLESS NOW. SERIOUSLY..

FANCY CLIPPING, THEN PAINTING YOUR NAILS AT THE DINNER TABLE, BOAK.

UNLESS ITS ACTUALLY FOGGY, TURN OFF YOUR FOG LIGHTS WHEN YOUR DRIVING! IT’S DANGEROUS FOR ONCOMING TRAFFIC, AND AS BRIGHT AS MAIN BEAM.

CHEERIO FREDDIE AND KAT, ALL FOR ONESIE AND ONESIE FOR ALL, UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, CHEERS.

A ROMAN WALKS INTO A BAR, HOLDS UP TWO FINGERS, AND SAYS: “FIVE BEERS, PLEASE.”

NOT SO SURE OUR LOVELY DINOSAUR IS FEELING TOO WELL!HE DID A HUGE FART AS I WALKED PAST THE OTHER DAY!

I CANT BELIEVE WE ARE NOW DESCRIBING THE HUMPS AS ‘COURTESY CROSSING’. THIS VERY WORD BRINGS AMBIGUITY. AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY HAS NO MEANING IN LAW (AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT SPEEDING). WHO ON EARTH DREAMED UP THIS WORD? YOU ARE ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING PEDESTRIANS TO CROSS A PART OF THE ROAD, WHERE AS THE LAW STANDS, THE PEDESTRIAN HAS NO RIGHT TO CROSS, WHAT EVER SOME BRIGHT SPARK WANTS TO CALL IT!

ALL THATS GOING TO HAPPEN IS SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET SERIOUSLY INJURED AND A DRIVER WILL BE MENTALLY SCARRED FOR LIFE. ALL IN THE NAME OF AMBIGUITY. IN FACT, COME TO THINK OF IT, AS A POINT OF LAW, FORGET ‘COURTESY CROSSING’, THIS COULD BE INTERPRETED AS JAYWALKING. COUNCIL SORT IT OUT, AS YOU COULD BE LIABLE FOR THIS AMBIGUITY, ESPECIALLY NOW THE DEBATE IS BEING PUBLIC

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Dog attack

Crossing sign

Simple solution

I naively thought it wouldn’t happen to my dog, even though I’ve read about it plenty of times in this very paper. At the time of the incident, and with my dog on a lead, the owners of the attacking labrador did nothing to stop their dog attacking mine. Bobbi ended up at the vets for the next four hours. She had surgery to stitch a ripped eyelid. She has spent this week on painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication. The nasty bruising and swelling in and around her eye makes the strongest stomach weak and the cone on her head is more than frustrating. The vet is unsure yet as to the long-term effect on her eyesight. They are only the physical injuries. While waiting at the vet clinic, a large dog came in with its owner and the once friendly and playful Bobbi cowered and whimpered under my seat.So wake up dog owners. Get your head out of the sand. This nonchalant, even arrogant attitude from some dog owners needs to stop before more dog attacks happen. We all know dogs are intelligent animals with animal instincts. So train them. Use a lead and actually hold onto it when you approach another dog. Even better use a muzzle. And take responsibility for your dog if it does attack. Don’t just stand there like it is normal dog behaviour. Do something because it’s nasty. And although you would hate to think your family pet could do that, it can, it did. It happened. And my beloved family pet bore the ugly brunt of it.

Laurette Young

Surely it’s a no-brainer. If the people who designed the crossings want the traffic to give way, put a sign up for the traffic, if they want the pedestrians to give way, put a sign up for the pedestrians. What’s so complicated? If they want people to read minds, then that’s a bit harder.

Mark Sedon

Kaikoura is a very similar town to Wanaka in many respects with lots of tourists, busy locals trying to get about their everyday lives, traffic and pedestrian chaos. Kaikoura is a much smaller local authority with a much smaller rating base and thus budget. Also like Wanaka there are the exact same raised crossings in the middle of the busy main street. Unlike Wanaka, on the footpath at these crossings there are give way signs for the pedestrians to see. It is simple, low cost and effective. It works, no confusion. QLDC how hard can it be?

Bridget Jessep

It’s been a bit warm around here of late. A bit warm, and a bit foggy, more so than the organisers of both the World Heli Challenge and the Winter Games would have liked. Never mind, though, both have managed to pull off events that have had athletes and fans hooting for more, which goes to show it’s not the weather that matters, it’s what you do with it. Then again, rain, shine, sleet or snow, hang around long enough and you can guarantee weather conditions will change, which is a good thing to keep in mind when things get rough. Newlyweds Jan and Kate, profiled in this issue, know this well, having this week celebrated a wedding that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable. So does Toby, the American skier rescued after a night out in the mountains. Happy endings do happen, and no matter what the weather, things can, and do, get better.

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WPC and the Academy were due to face each other in the first futsal game of round five at MAC gym on Sunday night but, as many of the Academy squad players had endured a lengthy day at a soccer tournament in Queenstown, the squad managers withdrew the team. This handed a gratefully accepted three points to WPC. The dream isn’t over yet for the Academy but they have to face the A Team and the Brazilian Ballstars in their last two games of the season.

The Misfits came close to causing a major upset against the Cape Horn Kings, who were a shadow of the team they were last week. The Misfits were holding their own and with two minutes to go the scoreboard showed four goals each. Two late goals dashed the

dreams of the boys and girls in white and sadly they endured yet another loss, going down to the Kings 6-4.

Your Mums Athletic could well be the most improved side in the league and despite losing their encounter with new championship favourites, the A-Team, 9-1, they provided their opposition with plenty of headaches fighting right through to the final whistle. The A Team (pictured) is a physically strong outfit who have developed a large squad of experienced players. They will be dreaming of steamrolling their way to a cup and league double, meanwhile everyone else is dreaming of f inding a way to stop them.

The final game of the evening saw the joint l e a g u e l e a d e r s , t h e Brazilian Ballstars take

on the Ordinary Joes. The Ballstars lacked some of the usual flair but still managed to keep their noses in front of a spirited Ordinary Joes outfit. It finished 8-3, a score line that doesn’t help the Ballstars goal difference battle against the A Team.

Next week is cup semi-final night and the top two in the league face off against each other. The A Team play the Brazilian Ballstars at 7.55pm. The last time these two sides met they provided a nail-biting 2-2 result. This won’t happen next Sunday, as a draw will go to extra time then penalties. The Cape Horn Kings play-off for the other final berth against the Academy at 6.10pm.

In the plate semi-final WPC play YMA at 6.45pm and the Ordinary Joes play the Misfits at 7.20pm.

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Despite a chilly start on Saturday, this year’s Bodkin Shield Trophy at the Wanaka Gun Club hosted a record 169 shooters for the event, including three school teams.The main competition, the Bodkin Shield Trophy match, which is competed for by six members of the same club shooting 15 targets each off 15m, was won by the Amberley team with two targets down for a

final score of 88/90. The Jerry Sanders Memorial trophy, which goes to the highest scoring Central Otago club in the competition, went to Alexandra on 87/90 giving them the hosting rights for the Bodkin Shield Trophy match next year.The Cotsford Burdon Trophy went to Craig Robertson with Tyler Miller runner up.

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BRIDGE RESULTS: Aspiring Stakes 1. North /South:- Karen Brenstron, James Fyfe 66.04% 1. Jan Lyness, Max Shepherd 61.25% 2. Kenneth Roberts, Terry Wilson 58.57% 3. East/West:- Gerarda Herlihy, Al-lan Kelly 66.48% 1. Neil Robin-son, Deirdre Lynch 60.69% 2. Jan Cunningham, Josey MmcKenzie 60.36% 3. Friday Bridge. North/South:- Beaton Marr, Noelene Raffills 62.61% 1. Lynne Fegan, Laraine Shepherd,58.76% 2. Jenny Muir, Madeleine Reveley 55.34% 3. East/West:- Barbara Waterworth, Deirdre Lynch 60.61% 1. Jan Cun-ningham, Jan Wyn-Williams 59.95% 2. Lyn Howson, Betty Swift. 56.94% 3. Junior Championship Pairs:- Mark Harry, Heather Wellman 68.06%. 1. Charles Kiewiet, John Mercer 61.11% 2.

TARRAS GOLF RESULTS-Ambrose Sponsored Tournament-1st Lake Hawea Station nett 56.6, 2nd Cromtrans 57.2, 3rd Cromdig 58.9. Men’s 4BBB-Dave Trevathan and Ken Galloway 51 Stablefords, James Lucas and Bonar Rowley 50. Wom-en’s Eclectic Winner-Kate Norman nett 59

LAKE HAWEA GOLF RESULTS Bisque Par Men 1 on c/b Ian Brown 5 up, Ger-ald Haggart 5up. 3 Neal Brown 4up, Tony Arscott 4up, Neil Matchett 4up. Ladies 1 Maire McElrea 3up. Nearest pin Red Stevenson.

UPPER CLUTHA NETBALL A Grade: Lake Hawea Holiday Park 31 v Nulook Hawea 22 (POG Carolyn Hay) Arrow-town 49 v Locations MAC B 24 (POG Julia Mulino) Cromwell 45 v Edgewa-ter 26 (POG Marika Topping) NES MAC A won by default against Alice. Senior Reserve: MAC Black 28 v Cromwell 23 (POG Tamara Green) MAC Y10A 27 v MAC Y9A 18 (POG Kenzie Findlay) MAC Blue 27 v New World 23 (POG Kath Nicolson). B Grade: Hawea Hotel 32 v Upper Clutha Y8 Reps 21 (POG Holly Wigg) MAC Wellman 27 v MAC Lake-land 7 (POG Laura Hay) MAC Engineers won by default against MAC Marine. Speight’s Ale House Player of the night: Thursday Marika Topping Crom-well 1, Friday Kenzie Findlay MAC Y10A

WANAKA STADIUM BOWLS Mon-day Edgewater Trophy 1 John Barrow, Bruce Macandrew, Colin Leckie 2 Bill Turnbull, Dean Martin, Jon Barron 3 Kerry Suckling, Don Stretch, Allison

Stretch. Tuesday 2x4x2 Pairs 1 Neville Harris and Judy Davey 2 Marj Morrish and Dave Minson 3 George Cameron and Madeleine Wilson. Tuesday Even-ing Trades Competition 1 New Guys: R Mathewson, R Marshall, I Hodge 2 Placemakers: M Prince, M Gould, J Oakes 3 MAC: R Bruce, B Osborne, A Curtis. Wednesday Afternoon Triples 1 Glad Cross, Fran Duncan, Estelle Findlater 2 Doris Studholme, Joan Smith, Bruce Hamilton 3 Gordon Barnes, Colin Leckie, Madeleine Wil-son. Thursday Afternoon 2x4x2 Pairs 1 Marj Morrish and Bruce Hamilton 2 Betty Russell and John Gale 3 Don Stretch and Kura Urquhart. Thursday Evening Trades Competition 1 A Rus-sell, R Key, J Russell 2nd B Pringle, A Chalmers, P Davidson 3 R McNeilly, M Robinson, L Allison. Friday Progressive Skips 1 Scotty Culverwell 2 Glad Cross, 3 Bill Hodge 3rds 1 Neville Findlater 2 Michael Barnett 3 Coleen Landsbor-ough 2nds 1 Neville Young 2 John Maddison 3 Denise Brown Leads 1 Shirley Ironside 2 Meryl Firman 3 Stu Landsborough. Saturday Studholme Memorial Meadowstone beat Rippon Lea, Beacon Point beat Hawea, Bremn-er Park beat Mt Albert, Pembroke beat Scurr Heights.

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Upper Clutha Senior B h o c k e y t e a m b e a t Queenstown 1-0 on Friday night to book their place in the semi-finals. UC dominated play, creating plenty of chances in attack and a well organised defence kept Queenstown’s o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o a m i n i m u m . T h e o n l y goal of the match came from a sweeping move switching defence to attack. An excellent pass from the back to Tish Telford who switched it wide to Tegan Brickland before Will Gerrard applied the finish. Player of the day went to Sammy Burke for her high work rate and improved play throughout the season.

Upper Clutha Senior Men also played Queenstown this week and cruised to a comfortable 5-0 win to

regain second place in the table. In a carbon copy of the last time these two teams met, UC dominated play from start to finish but struggled to find the back of the net in the first half. After multiple attacks and penalty corners were rebuffed by an excellent Queenstown goalkeeper, Jeff Ward finally scored to give UC a 1-0 lead at the break. The second half continued in a similar vein though UC finally managed to increase their conversion rate in the second hald. Jeff added his second and further goals from Dylan Bradley, Sam Morris and Reuben Ward gave the men an easy win. Queenstown failed to register any shots throughout the evening, leaving Tristan Weastall a spectator in goal.

New Zealand adventure racing team Seagate, which included Wanaka multisporter Dougal Allan as a last minute addition, placed second on the weekend after almost 125 hours of racing in Brazil.

The Seagate team is recognised as one world’s best after winning the Adventure Racing World series for the past two years and Dougal was asked to join just days before the event when the team’s navigator, Chris Forne, had to withdraw due to injury.

Dougal said the call up from captain Nathan Fa’Avae was the highlight of his seven years of racing and, with only days to pack and “get

his life organised”, found himself on the start line in the Bahia region of Brazil for the 620km Ecomotion Pro event.

“Racing with Seagate was an experience I won’t forget and I feel like I have learnt plenty that will hopefully make me a better athlete in the future. Nathan Fa’Avae in particular has long been a hero of mine [in] this sport and to

actually see firsthand how he operates on the world stage was a real highlight in my racing career.”

Dougal, pictured at the finish line between team members Sophie Hart and Nathan and fourth team member Trevor Voyce, returns to Wanaka this week and will be giving a public talk on the experience this Sunday.

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International stars may have been the main focus at this year’s Merino Muster 42km blue ribbon event, but in the open women’s 21km Snow Rake race it was a 13-year-old Hawea Flat athlete who crossed the line first. Ella Maluschnig, pictured here, is still a year below the minimum age for entry into international Loppet Federation races which the event is expected to become next year, but has been cross country skiing since she could walk, her mother Liz said. “She’s been up there since she was a baby.” Ella was first in a time of 1:15.39 almost two minutes ahead of her nearest competitor in the 16 women field.Liz said Ella has benefitted at the Snow Farm for a number of years with the help of coach Alexei Sotskov and this year has had another top international coach help prepare her for the event, Italian Luca Bormolini.In the men’s 21km event, Paul Richter of Meadowstone won in a time of 37.04.The 42km race was won by Polish Olympians Maciej Kreczmer in a time 1:44.14 and gold medallist Justyna Kowalcyk in 1:45.48.

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