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TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.20 SANTA IS IN THE HOUSE ROAST BUSTER PAGE 2 CHARGES LAID PAGE 7 INSIDE THANK YOU FOR LUNCH: It was a celebratory last day for Eat Smart Tairawhiti on Monday as they had a lunch to acknowledge the work the volunteers have done to feed school children over the last five and a half years. From left are team leaders Denise Weavers and Jackie Frazer with trustee Belinda Mackay, EST manager Cherith Whitley, team leaders Marice Richardson and Janelle Humberstone. Absent: team leader Jill Smith and trustee Huia White. Picture by Liam Clayton Volunteers celebrated as scheme ends by Matai O’Connor lunch programme where primary, without you. It’s been a long and intermediate and high school great journey. Thank you on behalf Thanks AFTER more than five years children can receive a free lunch of the children who were fed,” and over 200,000 lunches sent to every school day. Ms White said to the room full of hungry Gisborne school children, In the Gisborne region 27 people. Eat Smart Tairawhiti, formally schools are receiving lunches, and “We were always there to meet Gizzy School Lunches has stopped another nine will start receiving a need unless the Government, operations. them from Term 1 next year. the only place that could make Trustees of EST say the need for On Monday, volunteers, sponsors substantial change, came in and for the school children to receive food no and business supporters who had gave free food to tamariki,” she matter who they are or where they worked with Eat Smart Tairawhiti said. come from has been realised by were invited to a lunch to mark “Children don’t have the money the Government and it is the time the end of their journey. to feed themselves. A lot of their for the group to stop providing Huia White, EST founder and parents work two or more jobs, lunches. trustee, said it was the end of an pay all the bills with little left for Last year, the Labour era. food and that shouldn’t negatively Government announced a school “We wouldn’t be who we are impact on children. lunches CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 FUTURE-PROOF ENROL YOUR NOW! BUSINESS | COMPUTING CAREER FULL-TIME • PART-TIME • ONLINE 0800 22 55 348 | eit.ac.nz | 36856-01 GISBORNE RUATORIA WAIROA Local News ...... 1-5 Business ............11 Classifieds ... 18-19 The Guide ... 23-26 Births & Deaths ...4 Opinion ..............12 Television ...........22 Sport ............ 28-32 9 771170 043005 TOMORROW National .. 6-10,20-21 World............ 13-15 Racing ................27 Weather .............31 > 2 NEWS The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 Workshops hone spatial skills and problem-solving GISBORNE’S next generation of whizz-kids got stuck into electronics, coding and building racecars at Tonui Collab’s school holiday workshop this week. Children from seven to 12 years of age worked collaboratively to design and build robotic race cars using materials similar to Lego. “Constructing these robotic race cars requires tamariki to develop their spatial skills and divergent problem solving,” said EdTech innovator McKay Burgess. “The ability to imagine and manipulate spatial information in your head can be THIS PIECE GOES HERE: Alexander Dinkel improved through play and that’s what we’re building a robo-car. Picture by Liam Clayton creating the opportunity for tamariki to do during our school holiday workshops,” he said. next generation of scientists, engineers, digital Tonui Collab has only three days of holiday artists, animators and computer programmers.” workshops in December but this is followed by Ms O’Connor believes it is important for three weeks of holiday workshops in the new children to carry on with education over year, starting on Monday January 11. summer. The workshops range from robotics, virtual “Our tamariki are innately curious, they reality, science, animation, music engineering, crave exploration and discovery and are game development and digital art. constantly asking why. Tonui Collab creates Tonui Collab director Shanon O’Connor the space and encouragement to feed their encourages whanau to book their tamariki in curiosity. to some of the half-day workshops happening “We want to enable our tamariki to shift this summer. from consumers of digital technologies to “Our STEM (science, technology, creators of technology-based solutions.” engineeering and maths) workshops expose Children aged seven to 12 years can be our tamariki to the diversity of STEM,” she booked into Tonui Collab’s half-day school SHOWING OFF THE GOODS: Grace Wooton and Riki Reedy at the start said. “We invite them to be creative and holiday workshops online at www.tonuicollab. line with the cars they built at the Tonui Collab. collaborative problem solvers. They are the com/holidayworkshops Picture by Liam Clayton GETTING ACQUAINTED: Four-month-old Harper Jones-Clough, meets Santa, who just happens to be in Gisborne to tick off a few Christmas wish lists. He will be in his grotto at Treble Court every day from 10am until 2pm until Christmas Eve. He will also be there tonight, from 6pm to 9pm. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell LOOKING AHEAD Get your SPORTS FOCUS ON THE LAND • This weekend we have the Doleman Cup Finals Gisborne Herald between GBHS and OBR. home-delivered • The world school sevens are on this weekend live on Sky Sport with three players with Gisborne East Coast connections - Kelsey Teneti, Kaipo Olsen Baker and Kaia-Hayes Walker Waitoa. • Today is the fi rst day of the fi rst look at America’s Cup racing as the boats get out in the water in the Christmas Regatta. • Heavyweights of cricket Australia and India meet in the fi rst of four test matches, starting this afternoon. TOMORROW SATURDAY The Gisborne Herald, 64 Gladstone Road, P.O. Box 1143, Gisborne • Phone (06) 869 0600 • Fax (Editorial) (06) 869 0643 (Advertising) (06) 869 0644 Editor: Jeremy Muir • Chief Reporter: Andrew Ashton • Circulation: Cara Haines • Sports: Jack Malcolm/John Gillies To nd out more call 869 0620 e-mail: [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] • web site: www.gisborneherald.co.nz The Gisborne Herald • Thursday, December 17, 2020 NEWS 3 Appeal frees There is a clear nexus ‘between the appellant’s deprivation, abuse, trauma stemming from teen attacker that abuse, and his offending. from jail term —Justice ’Peter Churchman THE youth who stabbed a PRESTIN Taiapa’s defence counsel “Recent decisions of the Court ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Astronomer/astrophotographer French national after the tourist Adam Simperingham says the High of Appeal show a preference for agreed to give him a lift has John Drummond beside one of his telescopes at his Court’s decision to quash his prison rehabilitation over punishment, and observatories site where people will be able to observe a had his 25-month jail sentence sentence was “obviously a tough call” an increased awareness in relation reduced on appeal to 12 months unique event over three days from Sunday. given the violent nature of his offending, to offenders’ circumstances and Picture by Paul Rickard home detention. and the impact on his victim. backgrounds. Justice Peter Churchman, “Justice Churchman’s decision “The courts are showing an sitting in the High Court at reflects the difficulties that Mr Taiapa increasing understanding that harsh Wellington, accepted submissions faces in life, including a troubled sentences often do not have the desired from counsel Adam Simperingham upbringing, poor mental health, and effect of deterring offending. Biggest planets in by video link from Gisborne, that intellectual disabilities. “Obviously the terrible effect that the original sentence imposed on “He is 18 years old. crime has on victims should be the Prestin Taiapa was manifestly “Despite his difficulties, Mr Taiapa cornerstone for sentencing. excessive. had settled into a solid work and “However, the courts are recognising for great meet-up Taiapa, aged 17 at the time of rehabilitation regime on bail prior to that a more rehabilitative approach is the June attack but now 18, was sentencing. more likely to decrease offending, and originally sentenced in Gisborne “I have no doubt that a term of prison therefore reduce the effect that crime by Mark Peters distances in this rare line-of- District Court after pleading would have exacerbated his personal has on victims. sight event as they orbit the sun. guilty to wounding with intent issues and made him more likely to “Along similar lines, the Chief Judge JUPITER and Saturn are “About every two years Mars to cause grievous bodily harm, reoffend. of the District Court recently announced about to get the closest gets close to us but in my 47 attempted aggravated robbery “The High Court’s decision is the Te Ao Marama initiative, which they have appeared in about years of astronomy I’ve never and driving dangerously causing indicative that the tide is turning in is aimed at looking at the causes of 400 years and Gisborne seen Jupiter and Saturn sitting injury. relation to sentencing practice and offending, as a further attempt to reduce astronomer/astrophotographer in the same telescopic field,” Mr Simperingham said the principle. crime,” said Mr Simperingham. John Drummond is offering says Mr Drummond. sentencing judge erred in giving the opportunity to view the “This is the closest Jupiter Taiapa too little credit for his phenomenon. and Saturn have been together remorse, personal circumstances Mr Drummond’s Patutahi for 400 years. During the last and cultural factors and his youth He allowed 11 months for the for lack of previous convictions observatories have clearer close conjunction in 1623, and rehabilitative prospects. cultural report (originally four and one month for time spent views of the night sky and the telescope had just been Justice Churchman ruled that months).

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