Since Sept 27 1879 Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020 $2.20 Charlie Court kicking news goals P8 P32 Seven days of TV You asked, we listened! TV GUIDEEnjoy 7 days INSIDE of TV listings for MIDWEEK your entertainment P6Freshwater reforms unworkable, public meeting told RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND Last weekend Johnny Rowe should have been in England, competing in the London Marathon. But Covid-19 meant that the now-local didn’t get the opportunity to face the starter. On the same day though, he joined thousands of other people from around the world to tackle the marathon. Running from the foot of Mt Hutt to his home base in Winchmore, he completed the journey in under four hours. He tells his story to journalist Sue Newman on P4. Ph 03 307 7900 to subscribe! 2 NEWS Ashburton Guardian Wednesday, October 7, 2020 CONTACTS PLENTY TO CHALK ABOUT Editor Matt Markham 03 307-7969 Journalists Jonathan Leask 03 307-7971 Sue Newman 03 307-7958 Susan Sandys 03 307-7961 Happy people with happy faces is how Lets “It is about bring money into our community for eye.” Williams made special mention of Huia Chalk About Mental Health organiser Ngawai- groups like that to use.” Campbell, as she said Campbell kept it real for Adam Burns ata Williams described the scene on Sunday. Williams said having Pup and Connie on hand her. 03 307-7957 Williams said the event drew a large crowd and was a big plus as she could point them out and “I would have all these far-out ideas and Huia a joyful vibe. say if you need someone to talk to, talk to them. would say: ‘Nah, let’s just do this much’.” The special guests Nix Adams, Kloe Romana For Williams one big takeaway moment of the Campbell’s guiding hand notwithstanding Wil- and Jah the Jester were all big hits, she said. Nix day was seeing everybody chatting, mingling liams said she will be back again next year with Adams on behalf of CWK fundraising present- with each other and sharing their stories. a bigger and brighter event. Heather Mackenzie ed Connie Quigley and Paul (Pup) Chamberlain “Nobody had their heads down looking at the Pictured is Marion Bartlett creating her master- 03 307-7956 from Lives Worth Living with a sizable donation. ground, they were all looking each other in the piece. PHOTO ADAM BURNS Heather Chalmers Judge sceptical of softening cannabis views 03 307-7900 Lawyer Roz Burnside talked Peter John McDonald was stated police executed a search “These plants were close about softening views towards sentenced to four months’ warrant on the address in No- to harvesting and had a large cannabis, and the upcoming home detention at his Ashbur- vember last year, and found a volume of cannabis head on After hours referendum, as she sought a ton home on each of the two reasonably sophisticated oper- them, approximately two to fair sentence for her client. charges he had earlier pleaded ation, although did not consid- three ounces each,” the sum- [email protected] However, Judge Tom Gilbert guilty to, possession of canna- er it to be hugely commercial. mary of facts stated. appeared sceptical. bis for supply and cultivation A rear sleepout had a grow Underneath another HID Advertising Even if the non-binding ref- of cannabis. tent and seven plants used as lamp were 20 smaller plants Sales manager Sonia Gill erendum went through on a Burnside said McDonald mother plants, while the back ranging from 30 to 50 centime- Call 03 307-7976 yes vote and was passed into had medical issues, including a half of a single garage was the tres. [email protected] law, the amount of cannabis compromised immune system main growing area. In the front The defendant could poten- the defendant had growing was which was the underlying rea- half was a wardrobe with a tially make $30,000 a year if he General enquiries substantial. son for using. He had consid- High Intensity Discharge (HID) was selling all the cannabis. Call 03 307-7900 “It still wouldn’t get close ered medicinal cannabis but light hanging over 17 seedlings Inside another rear building, to rendering lawful what was this would cost $600 per month in individual pots, and inside a large double garage, were 42 [email protected] grown at his place,” His Hon- which was out of reach for the the main growing area were grams of loose cannabis head Missed paper our told Burnside in the Ash- beneficiary, who lost his job in four large mature cannabis and a set of electronic scales burton District Court on Mon- a serious accident last year. plants about one metre high and zip-lock bags. 0800 ASHBURTON day. The police summary of facts under another HID lamp. More court news, P8 (0800 274 287) Call in and talk to Jacky about fi nding Support a local Ashburton business !! … your perfect sleep solution. 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Is it too early, or have you already started to buy presents? CELIA JERARD WITH SONS GILL REID BERNARD AND KATH JO AND PAUL EDEN RILEY CLAYDON-WADE JENNY WALKER JOSH, 10, AND JAKE, 7 “I don’t really Christmas MENTINK “We just think ‘Goodness “I don’t think there’s “I haven’t started my “I haven’t even thought about shop, I just do birthdays. “I have a countdown on my they are putting decorations anything wrong with it, I Christmas shopping and I it. I think this year Christmas But there’s some nice phone, it’s 80 more days in the shop already?’. It does quite like to see Christmas think it’s a bit early.” has come as a surprise to most things coming into the until Christmas, and it plays feel a bit early,” Jo said. “But items in the shops, people with everything that has shops, I think for people a wee tune. I have started it’s a good time to get things especially because we have been going on.” who like to start early I looking,” Kath said. “From because you can avoid the had a bit of a rough year.” think it’s probably quite October I feel you can go for rush,” Paul said. nice.” it,” Bernard said. Not recyclable? Don’t use it “There are more and more al- use as an alternative?” sit in landfill for the next thou- By Heather Mackenzie ternative products coming on the Guise pointed out that beeswax sand years. market all the time. If people need wraps could be used to replace “It’s about stepping back and help finding alternatives, I am cling film, natural soaps cut down thinking ‘what will this do to the If it can’t be reused, composted happy to advise them.” on waste, refill products are a environment?’ If the answer is or recycled then don’t buy it, The latest addition to her better alternative and razors like negative then find an alternative. says Simple Eco store owner eco-friendly line-up is bamboo those used by dads in the 1970s We all need to think big picture,” Danielle Guise. -framed, high-quality lens sun- with replaceable blades are one she said. Guise’s shop in the triangle glasses. of her favourite products in the Such is the demand for her is bulging with alternatives to “Imagine how much plastic shop. products and the lack of space for single-use plastics and chem- would be saved going into land- In relation to the common increased stock ranges, Simply ical-laden products. fill if all glasses frames were made opinion that alternative products Eco is on the move at the end of Among her favourite items from bamboo.” are often more expensive, Guise the month. are the compostable pot Since the move was made to re- said doing something good for the “After five years of being in the scrubbers, the stainless cycle plastics labelled one, two or environment should outweigh a triangle we are shifting to Ash- steel lunch boxes and the five, Guise said people comment few extra dollars. ford Village. The new shop will be toothpaste tabs in a that the district’s red bins should “People think that once their about three times the size we have metal contain- be bigger to compensate.