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A Big Neighbourhood Muck in Highlights St AlbansThe Voice of our NewsNeighbourhood June 2011 A Big Neighbourhood Muck In Highlights What’s new with SARA page 3 by Peggy Kelly 5 trips to Placemakers for builder’s For many years we have wanted to mix, cement and sand, mixing in a build some raised vegetable beds in the wheelbarrow and lots of laughs. community garden. Now a ready supply of Special Thanks To: Country comes bricks makes this a real possibility. • Roger for his truck and his help in After the February earthquake Kings bringing bricks from Merivale to to town Seeds donated vegetable seeds to all the the park page 5 Community Gardens in Christchurch. This • Tony for allowing us to take the generous gift encouraged The Friends of bricks Packe Street Park to decide to get on with • Bertram Rush for ordering the planning for a proper vegetable garden in necessary materials and for ours. transporting the boxing and for St Matthews Volunteering Canterbury (of which we lending his tools Scouts are a member) sent out word that Genesis • Genesis Energy, Red Cross and Energy and the Red Cross were going to The Friends of Packe St Park for page 6 sponsor some community projects staffed providing the volunteer workers by volunteers from the North Island who • Helen for baking and bringing the wanted to help Christchurch. Our society delicious savoury scones applied to be considered and was very • Hazel from baking and bringing the St Albans fortunate to be chosen. delicious banana cake On Thursday 26th May 2011 a mini • Nellie for hot chips and an Childcare bus full of energetic people arrived at overwhelming donation of packaged Centres the park at 9.30am and together with our food that will sustain us on future own volunteers worked all day in quite workdays pages 8 & 9 wet weather to put in the foundations for • Tessa for supplying her shovels and our raised beds. This involved digging out energy the site, measuring, pegging the boxing, continued on page four The St Albans News — distributed free to 5000 households Page 2 St Albans News June 2011 Oh my, what does one healthy and safe place to live. I want to live in a city write when one’s head that benefits from the latest technological advances... has so many thoughts and (many more wants)... and provides me with fresh food, emotions mushing together water and air. in it? I probably should For St Albans I want the tram to run up Colombo St. stick to an easy topic like I have just discovered that the beautiful old block of the weather, which it could shops at the Westminster/Cranford Street intersection be said, would be my number one reason for enjoying was once the end-of-the-line, for the trams. It was living here. And, though I’m not sure if it is ‘politically once suggested the structure ought to be named “The correct’ to admit it, I am enjoying Christchurch. Terminus.” Could we rebuild some history we lost long I have been forcing my husband to take Sundays off ago? (completely!) The sun has continued to shine and we I wouldn’t mind seeing, just for starters, a modernised have been having the most wonderful family missions. Edgeware Village, more community orientated Tree climbing and the ‘leaf monster game’ around the property developments, changes to the zoning and a Peacock Fountain in Botanic Gardens, back again for traffic management plan, that is not the current one, the ‘conker game’ and again for a picnic with friends perhaps that produced somewhere around 1967? in the Rose Garden. And when we temporarily tired of Oh, and what about a St Albans College of that great park we went bike riding through McLeans Engineering, Architecture, and Earth Sciences and our Island Forest which is a great place to spend a day own museum? And add a gymnasium (with opening and I find it a lot more calming than biking around St roof) to the St Albans Pool? And the empty site on Albans. Madras St (currently grazing cows, which also happens St Albans, my neighbourhood; the broken streets, to be about the only thing that has happened to the site the destroyed houses, my neighbours living in in 20 years) set up as a non-profit community food damaged homes and the empty home. My neighbours produce area? gone. The lost shops and businesses and the empty What do you want? lots. The bike rides around these streets bring me back I hope you too are continuing to dream. Remember to reality. The reality that we are all facing together. to smile and get some timeout. Get involved in your But the ‘reality’ of today is not my future. I want my community, this can be as simple as using your local future to be amazing. businesses or as adventurous as planning a community I want to live in a city that protects its environments, event. Have the courage to make a difference. both natural and built. I want to be proud of the Emma Twaddell foundations of our citywide infrastructure and the all Chair of the St Albans important foundations that will make our city a happy, Residents’ Association Editorial St Albans News, June 2011 First, I want to apologise to all who didn’t get to Vol. 19, Number 2, Issue No. 189 hold a copy of the St Albans News in their hands in The St Albans News is a community newspaper. This April. It was the first after the quake, and we only newspaper is delivered monthly, and is free to over 3000 printed and distributed 3200 copies. Distribution homes and businesses. All contents are copyright by the was a bit patchy, to certain areas of St Albans but original authors. Please acknowledge the source of any excerpts as the St Albans News. not others. This month around we have printed Send your news contributions and adverts to: 5000 copies, with a much wider distribution. We St Albans News, P.O. Box 21-102, Christchurch have also a much larger volunteer team helping us Email: [email protected] with the distribution — please join us for the next Phone: 374 2465 issue which we are planning for August. Website: http://www.stalbans.gen.nz Again, a big thank you to the local business Editor: Christoph Hensch community who are supporting the current issue Design, layout, advertisement design: Maria Hayward with paid advertising. And thank you also to those With regular contributions from: Maxine Feutz, Hilaire Campbell, Doug Craig, and community members who have sent in stories and others. reports. This paper is open to everyone — please send us your contribution for the next issue by 29 The opinions expressed in this publication are solely July to ‘[email protected]’. those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the St Albans Residents’ Association. by Christoph Hensch, Editor St Albans News June 2011 — Page 3 What’s new with the St Albans Residents Association? by Emma Twaddell So we started thinking about how we can engage the In December 2010, due to a complaint made from community more and came across a project in Wellington a member of our community, the organisation was called the ‘Newlands Project’ and then we were lucky investigated by the CCC and the Charities Commission. enough to have Jarrod Coburn from the Draco Foundation The council thoroughly inspected our financials; they found and a member of the Newlands Residents Association no faults or wrong doings and as was the case in the past, talk to us about the project at our last meeting. believe we are a very viable organisation and will fully The Newlands Project is basically a ten-year strategy support us in the future. The Charities Commission pulled which guided the organisation toward establishing a us up on three articles in the St Albans News, concluding strong mandate to act for and on behalf of the greater that the organisation had engaged in political advocacy. Newlands community. It started with a survey of the Unlike Greenpeace, who have lost their ‘charity’ status community, and some of the things it has helped with for the same reason, SARA was given a warning and the — or was directly involved in — over the past decade Commission recommended that the organisation does not included the new skateboard park, several children’s engage in any matters of political advocacy in the future. playgrounds, a heritage walkway, bus shelters at all The first edition of The St Albans News has been stops where possible and the $3M Newlands Community produced since this finding and as was the case in the past, Centre. “The opinions expressed in this publication are solely those With the loss of the St Albans Community Centre, of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the SARA has been presented with a situation where, like St Albans Residents’ Association.” So while I’m not sure our city, we can take all the good work it has done in the if holding ‘charity’ status will be part of our future, I am community over the past two decades and build a new aware that there is one very important lesson SARA must vision for the future. One where the outcome is greater learn from these experiences to continue to play a part in the levels of social capital, a more competent community, development of a vibrant and healthy community. It must better and more trusted sources of local information and communicate with its members and the wider community.
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