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Phone (03) 366-0903, Fax: (03) 365-0639, Email: [email protected], www.ageconcerncan.org.nz Charities Commission Number: CCC29446 2 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT Welcome to The end of 2020 saw Wendy Fox join Welcome to be clear of lockdown conditions this 2021 – and a very our team. Wendy will be delivering the another year of year. We all need to play our part Happy New Year NZTA-funded Staying Safer driving Keeping On. As in preventing spread of the Corona to you all. courses. I would strongly encourage I write this the virus by vigilantly recording where we I hope you had every person over the age of 65 to do weather is very have been either by phone or writing an enjoyable one of these courses. They are half a hot and we need on the paper forms that businesses Christmas season day, classroom based and will give a to be mindful of are displaying. with family and refresher on road rules, changes to how important friends. I certainly rules and information on how ageing We need to protect ourselves by it is to keep felt very lucky, aff ects driving. You have probably not regularly washing our hands and well hydrated and privileged, that we were able had any further upskilling from when with plenty of water to drink through drying them well, use hand gel where to socialise with others and have a you were 15! Its time you did (none of the day. If you are out in the sun it is provided. Combating the virus is ‘normal’ Christmas and New Year, us are as good drivers as we think we remember to slip on a hat, slop on our responsibility. after the year we had, and the issues are). Ring the offi ce and book in for Be careful when you go out that we saw on the news every night from the next course near you – they are some sun screen (uv can penetrate you lock your house, don’t leave around the world. running weekly. cloud cover and still cause sunburn) valuables in sight in your car and There are still a lot of unknowns Remember – we are here to help. and cover up. about 2021, so we must remain Some of the reasons to call might be Our gardens need water too, but keep you handbag and wallet close vigilant and follow the advice of related to loneliness, elder abuse, as the City Council reminds us, do at hand. health professionals. the need for a gardener, house not waste water. Use hand held Age Concern Canterbury’s offi ce in It may seem too early to mention cleaner or a trades or handy person, sprinklers or watering cans and train Papanui is now back to full staff and Flu vaccines - but by the time the next the need to attend one of our health the water on to the roots of your ready to answer all your questions Keeping On is to print the fl u season promotion activities (driving courses precious plants. Be very careful with and give help where needed. will nearly be upon us. As research or falls prevention classes) or it may sparks from lawn mowers and other Look out for each other and keep shows, having a Flu vaccine is a more garden equipment as fi res are so safe. important factor in living longer than be seeking some information related easily started in these dry conditions. Trish Adams exercise or being lean or overweight! to older people. Our Vision is to be We all hope that we are going to President (the most important factor being the lead organisation in Canterbury staying socially connected), and it that connects, supports, empowers, is even more important this year celebrates and respects all older because of Covid-19. people in an inclusive society – so AGE CONCERN CANTERBURY FUNDRAISER So I recommend that you all get the whatever your question or query vaccination as soon as it is available relates to – call us fi rst. – and talk to your family about being Ngā mihi nui vaccinated – to protect them - and Simon Templeton you also. Chief Executive CONTENTS

Entertainment books available through Age Concern Canterbury. Page 3, Keeping On Page 9, Kilmarnock enabling Contact Peter Gwynne on 03 366 0903. with Antonio Yuge changes in life Keeping On OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF AGE CONCERN CANTERBURY (INC) Keeping On is distributed by Age Concern Canterbury to Christchurch Malls, Senior Citizen Clubs and Groups, Libraries, Medical Centres, Rest Homes, Hospitals and Institutions, Housing Complexes and Agencies working with older Page 11, Page 28, Staying Safe people and individuals. Keeping On is published quarterly in February, May, Back country man - Mervyn Harris Driving Course August and November each year. Written contributions for consideration can be emailed to the Editor at [email protected] or contact Deirdre on Page 6, My Book Club recommends Ph: (03)366-0903 or Fax: (03)365-0639. Page 13, Waste not, want not The Keeping On Team: Deirdre McGrath - Editor, Mike Crean - Journalist, June Peka - Journalist, Page 18, Coping as a caregiver Anna-Marie Hunter - Advertising Representative/Desktop Publisher. Page 22, Hosts and drivers wanted for social outings Keeping On is printed by Inkwise, Rolleston. Page 27, Life saving bowel screening Views and opinions expressed in Keeping On are not necessarily those of the Editor or Age Concern Canterbury. Neither does publication of an Page 32, My two cents advertisement imply endorsement by Age Concern Canterbury. FEBRUARY 2021 KEEPING ON 3 Keeping on with Antonio Yuge

by Roy Sinclair Antonio Yuge, at age 74, is a man children are especially so. Not for the of many hats. He wears them with fi rst time I reminisced about being style. Antonio is a dapper dresser. brought up anti-Japanese. I was born He is Japanese. But `Antonio’ as he soon before the conclusion of WWII. is known is curiously not a Japanese My parents expressed ill feelings name. towards Germans, and Japanese When he came, from Osaka, to in particular. Luckily times have live in New Zealand, 25 years ago changed. I ended up enthralled by he thought the locals would not cope Japanese people, their country and with his Japanese name, Ryozo. their culture. After some thought, and his interest In 2004 I was likely the fi rst Kiwi to in Spanish Flamenco art, he took on cycle the length of Japan. It was part `Antonio’ as a moniker he considered of a process to have a World Peace would be suitable in a Western- Bell gifted to New Zealand from style culture. It certainly caught on. Japan. As with many Japanese, he had a Recalling cycling the length yearning to live in a foreign country. of Japan had me thinking I had He had travelled widely with his achieved quite a lot during my almost family, preferring countries of cultural 77 years. If I had a regret, it is that I interest rather than well-trodden have not achieved anything musical. tourist spots. Antonion began piano lessons at 57 becoming an accomplished musician. I once mentioned as much to a He decided to leave Japan partly former newspaper colleague, Jenny I gave it up.’’ from South Africa. Antonio said he for the benefi t of his children’s higher Setchell. Her husband is a renowned In the meantime he had welcomed had likely had too much to drink and education. Japanese universities, concert organist. Jenny said, “don’t friends to okonomiyaki and fried casually said he would one day learn he says, are all about pressure of worry Roy that can be something for noodle parties at his home. He the piano. passing exams. another lifetime.’’ wanted to add more options. He thought that would be the last “It has little to do with what students I can delightfully ponder arriving at He set up his popular Osaka of it but a few days later when at really want to learn. I thought that a next lifetime Antonio’s music party restaurant in Christchurch which the petrol station, the music teacher was nonsense.’’ with a set of Sottish bagpipes. expanded to include Bar Antonio. coincidentally arrived in the next bay. But where to go? Several countries And what has Antonio got in mind Both closed following the Canterbury “Hi Antonio,’’ she said. ``What about appealed but New Zealand won out for his Keeping On? earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. those piano lessons?’’ owing to the adoption, in 1987, of a Much of the same adding in some He had an opportunity for a new Put on the spot, Antonio replied, strict anti-nuclear foreign policy. travel to visit friends in many countries. start with former interests. He had “how about next Thursday?’’ Christchurch and New Zealand He also dreams of opening a small been a supplier of snowboarding and And it all progressed brilliantly from certainly suited him. He became Japanese restaurant business using surfi ng gear in Japan, even becoming that brief meeting. a popular restaurateur and bar Spanish language, somewhere in a snowboarding instructor. I have attended several of Antonio’s proprietor. Christchurch was South America. “I wasn’t very good at instructing,’’ music parties. The most recent was convenient for his one-time passion, When aged 80, he plans to he laughs. “And it was a great in the spring of 2020. As always the snowboarding. As a long-time peace take Flamenco lessons, again, in distance to travel to snow resort raw talent was amazing. An early activist, he discovered Christchurch Granada, Spain. mountains.’’ performer was a young cello player. was the host city for the New Zealand And he might once more change Mount Hutt can be reached after a She is known as `Little Princess.’ World Peace Bell. He became an his name. 90-minute drive from his Christchurch Her real name is Keina Rollison. Her accomplished musician having taken He recalls, in 2006, meeting Paco, home. During the 2020 winter he mother, Mitsue, accompanied on on piano lessons when aged 57. the owner of a small Flamenco Bar made 27 trips to Mt Hutt. He was the piano. Other young musicians In Japan he had studied English to in the downtown of Granada, Spain. likely the oldest serious snowboarder were nimble-fi ngered pianists. an extent. “When I asked him, `how old are on the mountain. He had taken up A middle aged trombone player, you?’ he told me, `I have no age’. “I could read a letter in English, and snowboarding again in 2017 at the Akiya Hirasawa, has performed in “I thought that was a very good write a letter. Conversational English age of 70. That year he made 30 trips professional orchestras. Satoko answer, so I would like to change my came later. to Mt Hutt. Nakamura was a soul-rendering name to `Paco.’ ’’ “My parents had a Japanese In 2019 he fractured a collarbone pianist. Antonio told me Satoko is a Okonomiyaki (vegetable pancake) when snowboarding. That might music teacher and frequently visits to restaurant. It was not comprehensive have signalled the end of it but early play his grand piano. SHOPRIDER Japanese food as such. Just one the following year he purchased his Several children accompanied their “Simply the Best” kind. Okonomiyaki is very popular in season’s pass. parents. If children are cute, Japanese SPECIALS Osaka. On the rare occasion when Antonio Antonio has his quirky streak. He might appear gloomy, the mere chuckles when recalling being fi red mention of snowboarding is an from a trading company. Losing his instant returner of smiles. job did have a silver lining. “I might become the Legend of Mt “My brother asked me to manage Hutt,’’ he chuckles. his restaurant.” Music parties at his hillside home “That and seven years working are a regular delight. He dresses to in my own Japanese-style pub appear the perfect host. They are Prices from $399 was good experience for starting a sort of `pot luck’ events so there are WHEELCHAIR SCOOTER restaurant anywhere.” typically nibbles and wine bottles FREE Appt & Hearing Test SALES & SERVICE Variety of new and used scooters, “When I arrived in New Zealand I in abundance. Most of the visiting Same Day Service - At appt get did not know what I wanted to do.’’ wheelchairs and walkers musicians are Japanese. tested, fitted and ‘walk out the Contact: Gerald & Christine He began working as a manager Antonio’s front room is home for door’ with hearing aids 28 Years of friendly service at the English Business Training a Japanese Shigeru Kawai grand with a guarantee Institute in Christchurch. piano. One of his stories has it, Ph 0800 443 274 Phone 383 1364 or “It got a little boring for me. And the some years ago he was partying and [email protected] students were always complaining so a participant was a piano teacher 021 183 1177 4 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 Living in the new COVID-19 world by Dr Doug Wilson Nothing in our last 100-year history disrupted and the country is relatively vaccine-induced protective immunity, has quite had the global impact of the isolated from most international and cautiously, when safe, loosening COVID-19 onslaught on the world. travel. continued public health measures, Never have lives been so disrupted The hope has been that a vaccine and opening borders. and tragedies of loss been so might arrive in a couple of years, New Zealand will need to unpick widespread. to abort the progression of the this conundrum with care, as it begins The tricky virus, likely spread from pandemic, allowing people to return from a viral-free status and has to bats, has found a welcome home in to normal lives, and look back at open to a largely infected world, the human population. Infection has 2020 as a horrible year from which with a few exceptions from which to been worldwide. Patients may be many people will carry the scars for select viral-free bubble partners of asymptomatic, right through to dying the rest of their lives. like mind. This is not an overnight, from the infection. But now the sudden arrival of nor a comfortable task. But vigilance Populations have been profoundly eff ective and safe vaccines is almost is mandatory. One or two errant disrupted with the implementation a miracle. This has been achieved infected subjects can explode our of public health policies such as following early identifi cation of the complacency in a fl ash. lockdown, social distancing, hand virus in January 2020 through to fi rst We are not yet in safe territory and washing, and eventually masks for rollout of the vaccine in the UK in almost everybody. to hell with Covid 19; but soon, after December, 10 months from beginning Older people, and those with pre- a successful vaccination programme, to end. This has been years ahead existing conditions like diabetes, high our lives will revert back close to of all historic vaccine developments. blood pressure and obesity, have normality and hello world. But drop Previous multilevel, spectacular been particularly vulnerable to the our guard, throw caution away in a scientifi c advances have enabled The United Nations (UN) has lethal ravages of the virus. Protecting joyous celebration of complacency, new, but pre-existing, methodologies declared the 2021-2030 period the vulnerable has been a losing and the viral devil will be here to to be hijacked for the vaccine the Decade of Healthy Ageing, battle in most communities. assault us. At present over 108 million people development. Viral sequencing in the recognising the need for a UN- It seems likely countries, including have been infected worldwide, more US was completed in almost 48 hours wide response to demographic New Zealand, which can pay for the than 2.3 million people have died, after the initial genetic information changes internationally. By vaccine should be largely able to and to date almost all the world’s arrived from China, a task in decades working together Dr Ghebreyesus, eliminate the virus over the course of communities have been disrupted by before, taking months or even the Director-General of the World the next 18 to 24 months. eff orts to contain the virus and save years. Clinical protection by the fi rst Health Organisation believes we Sounds simple, but delivering lives. vaccines in preventing infection, and can …. “Not only add years to life the vaccine and getting folk to take Work from home, closed schools particularly a serious infection, has but add life to years.” it and return for jab two is a clear and workplaces, hospitals as war- been achieved in 95% of subjects, New Zealand is also addressing challenge, with close to 40% of some time clearing stations of the dead and including elderly, in the major clinical the needs of our ageing population dying, desperate health care workers communities wary of vaccination. It studies that have been completed for with the Better Later Life Strategy, as saviours but also victims of the the fi rst vaccines. It had been the hope requires global generosity to vaccinate which sets out a plan for how we infection. Such has been our world till of most scientists that 50% or more communities in poorer countries; but will support the needs of older now. Time Magazine has called 2020 to ensure free international travel, the worst year ever. reduction would be welcomed, but people over the next 15 years. they must be included in the global New Zealand has been an isolated 95% is almost beyond expectation. The strategy’s vision is ’Older vaccination program. community with highly eff ective anti- This is a particularly wondrous New Zealanders lead valued, Above all, we can praise the tough viral responses, including lockdown outcome. It remains unclear how well connected and fulfi lling lives’ political decisions that have been and wide public health measures. vaccinated subjects are prevented and considers issues such as Almost no other community has from transmitting the virus, but they made to contain the virus and enable savings, housing, employment, responded so eff ectively with are defi nitely protected. our country to live in an isolated health, attitudes, technology, care such a dramatic avoidance of Where to now? It takes many harmony as the rest of the world services and social connection. this social disruption and terrible months to roll out a countrywide burns. But so easily it can be us too, health outcomes from the infection. vaccination programme. Countries were the virus to escape our existing Nonetheless jobs have been lost, must fi nd a balance between the controls. 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Gifting of up to have both assets and income under $6,500.00 per couple per year made In a few words as no surprise as her prose is beautiful. certain thresholds. in the fi ve years before you apply for a Set in Texas after the American She has clearly researched the time Asset thresholds have increased subsidy is not counted in the fi nancial Civil War, Captain Kidd, a travelling each year since 2005. As at July means assessment. Any gifts made newsreader, accepts the dangerous 2020, you must have assets below above this total of $32,500 per couple task of escorting a young girl back to $236,336 (including your house and over the fi ve years will be considered her relatives after being kidnapped car) if you are single or if you and “excess” gifts and will be included. by Kiowa Indians. your partner are both in care. If you However if you and your partner are Great for are a couple with one partner in care both assessed as requiring long term Those who enjoy historical novels, and one still living in your family residential care and are applying for especially character-driven stories. home, you can choose between the a subsidy at the same time, this limit Why I love this book $236,336 threshold or a threshold doubles to $65,000. News of the World is a delightful of $129,423 excluding your family Any gifts of more than $27,000 per story with endearing characters. home and car. You are also entitled couple, per year, made before the fi ve Captain Jeff erson Kidd, an aging to have an amount of up to $10,000 year period are considered “excess” widower, earns his living travelling each set aside in a prepaid funeral or gifts and are included in the fi nancial from town to town in 1870 Texas in a funeral trust which is not included means assessment. giving selected readings from the in your asset assessment. If you are looking at making a gift latest newspapers. Historically it’s If you are under the asset threshold to a family member or settling assets very interesting, as many of the then an income assessment is into a Trust, or winding your Trust citizens at that time were either applied. Any income you and your up, Harmans have a team which illiterate or unable to buy newspapers partner receive will be assessed. understands the implications of these and this was their only way of hearing and place well and we’re there with Income received from your assets decisions and how they may impact what was going on in the world them as they make the dangerous is also included except for the fi rst on you. We can also assist with the around them. journey south. Through the dangers $1,027 for a single person, $2,054 completion of an application for a The captain is off ered $50 to return they encounter, they come to trust for a couple where both partners residential care subsidy and to set a young girl to her relatives some each other and eventually become are in care or $3,081 for a couple up a funeral trust if required. Give where one partner is in care. Income Phillipa Shaw a call on 352-2293 to 400 miles away. Johanna, a hostile close friends. received from paid employment of arrange an appointment to discuss 10-year-old, speaks no English and Book clubs may fi nd parallels the partner who continues to live in your situation. has no memory of her relatives. She between the way news travelled considers herself to be a Kiowa and during this time and the way today’s is distraught at leaving the only family media operates, as well contrasts she knows. After reading the book, I in the way we view the value of heard an interview with the author, human life through Captain Kidd, Paulette Jiles, where she explained who is somewhat hardened by his that children were very much revered experiences during the war. and indulged in Indian culture — it It's a fascinating journey and is must have been a truly world-bending very well written. I highly recommend transition for Johanna. the book. There is also a movie Captain Kidd buys a wagon and adaptation coming soon, with Tom they set off together battling rough Hanks as Captain Kidd — a great Protecting terrain, bad weather, bandits and outing for a club that’s read the book! Comanches. Even when they reach My one criticism would be that the you through Johanna’s relatives, the adventure is last chapter is a little unusual and not over. There is more to come! perhaps rushed, but really my only all stages The author is a poet and this comes criticism is that the story fi nished! of life Residential Care Subsidies We guide seniors through the legal issues that affect them. Hear Harmans’ Lawyers discuss the issue here at Age Concern Canterbury, Our friendly and experienced Seniors Team offers specialised legal advice so you have peace of mind and feel confident when it comes to making 24 Main North Road, Papanui on decisions that are right for you and your family.

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Ask your doctor to listen to your heart 8 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 High temperatures and dehydration

A long spell of hot summer weather Meet Age Concern Canterbury’s can take its toll on most of us, as it saps away the moisture from our new Community Connector bodies. For those of us who are Age Concern Canterbury is very ageing or disabled hot weather could pleased to announce a new role be deadly, especially if we are relying within our service. on others to give us drinks. Jo Ironside has begun work as In such weather we need to a Community Connector, a newly drink more water than the usual established role funded by the recommendation of 6-8 standard Ministry of Social Development. glasses a day. Originally from Perthshire in Dehydration is a problem Scotland, Jo came to New Zealand because our bodies are 60% water in 2002 and has been a registered and it is for: nurse for 28 years with an extensive • digestion background in age care. • circulation • unusually constipated The Community Connector role is • saliva • unusually hungry to provide support to older people who are at risk of missing out on • transporting nutrients and wastes • dry skin access to services. She will off er to and from our cells • cramp in the arms or legs advice and support to clients, their • maintaining our body temperature • urinating less than normal families/whanau, and carers to Jo Ironside, Community Connector (sweat helps to cool us down) • dizziness enable them to make decisions that housing, employment and health. Our bodies are continuously If you have any of these signs, the maintain their safety and autonomy. Jo will be based in our Christchurch losing moisture though: fi rst simple solution is to drink more The Community Connector may offi ce at 24 Main North Road • urinating fl uids. If this isn’t making things be able to assist with accessing Papanui. For enquiries, please • our bowels better seek medical help. information about, superannuation, phone reception on 03 366 0903. • breathing How do you know you’re • sweating dehydrated? We may lose fl uids because of: You may feel thirsty or hungry, • an underlying medical problem however the best sign is urinating e.g heart failure, kidney disease or less frequently, with very dark urine. Total Mobility Agency electrolyte imbalance Remember dehydration is life • diarrhoea threatening. If you have any of the • vomiting signs mentioned, drink more water Age Concern Canterbury is now an approved agency for the Total Mobility • large blood loss than you would normally do. Scheme. Eligible individuals are entitled to discounts that give them 50% off • high fever transport fares with approved operators - up to a maximum of $35.00 per trip. If you need more advice on how Dehydration can occur quickly in Individuals wishing to access the scheme must meet the eligibility criteria set hot or humid temperatures as our to keep hydrated just contact us at by the NZ Transport Agency and adopted by Environment Canterbury. body sweats to try and cool us. Therapy Professionals our friendly Here are some early signs of dietitians can help. Age Concern Canterbury can undertake assessments to test your dehydration: Phone: (03) 377 5280 eligibility and organise the Total Mobility card for those approved. • tired and grumpy Email: [email protected] • struggling to concentrate Website: Please contact us on 366 0903 for further • experiencing a dry mouth http://www.therapyprofessionals. information or for an assessment appointment. • headachy co.nz A

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He is an invaluable member of the 60-strong staff , says chief Mark dismantling electonic recycling at Kilmarnock Enterprises. executive offi cer Michael Toothill. dedicated, atmosphere at Kilmarnock caring for the environment. As well His colleagues look up to him. He would be diffi cult to match at any as airline audio headphones, many has quietly adopted roles as mentor private fi rm. other plastic goods are saved from and coach in his naturally humble, Education and training are landfi ll. This focus has appealed to supportive way. off ered to all staff members so conservation-minded people and “Due to his humble and unassuming they can improve and update their companies. Several of them are now nature, he automatically assumes skills. Once his confi dence level contracting work to Kilmarnock or Mark with his Skills Highway certifi cate. the role of a leader, which comes improved, Mark James was keen donating money to boost its eff orts. Kilmarnock is one of nine such naturally to him,” Michael says. to avail himself of these services. Michael Toothill urges the public social enterprises operating in New He is always ready to off er help Working in conjunction with the to look at Kilmarnock’s webpage Zealand. Their loyal customer base to anyone. He took on increased Tertiary Education Commission and for ways people can help. For also includes Trade Aid which imports responsibility in the food department. Hagley College he has achieved 44 example, online purchases of a He became a right-hand man to NZ Qualifi cations Authority credits variety of cleaning agents can save goods from village producers in poor his supervisor. His object in work is and graduated from the Authority’s householders money and strengthen countries. perfection. supported learning Workplace Skills the social enterprise. This outsider felt a glow throughout Kilmarnock, so named as it began and Communications course. Kilmarnock is not a profi t-making the large building on Lodestar on Kilmarnock Street in Riccarton, Michael Toothill says that after business. There are no shareholders. Avenue, near the former Air Force is a partially government-funded Revenue from contract work is overcoming the many obstacles in his base at Wigram. It was the glow organisation that helps people with life, Mark’s progress is “remarkable”. important but the enterprise’s charity of friendly, warm-hearted people intellectual disabilities by providing In December, 2019, Mark received status is also necessary. While much work that allows them to live on their a highly commended Champion of the work is manual, a considerable working as a team, practising with own earnings. This boosts their self Learner award at the Skills Highway amount is semi-mechanised, with precision, attaining with satisfaction, esteem. Awards, held in Auckland. competent workers operating modern responding to their visitor with wide A broad range of jobs is undertaken Kilmarnock places great stress on machinery. smiles and pride in their occupation. on contract to fi rms of all sorts. For instance, Kilmarnock staff cleaned and re-packed Air New Zealand’s FRANCO DAL DIN passenger audio headsets, until the covid-19 pandemic almost shut down 027 484 2739 international fl ights. The agreement 03 355 6555 with the airline ended the dumping of [email protected] once-used headsets in landfi lls. Licensed Agent REAA 2008 Projects range widely. On one hand is the dismantling of obsolete electronic gear, such as computers, phones and video sets, which people drop off for them, to enable recovery and recycling of the metals they contain. On another hand is the measuring and packing of herbs and spices, in a sterile setting, ready for stocking Foodstuff s’ supermarket shelves. The high standards set by management and staff have led to many workers being off ered jobs in private companies where they can continue to build on their work and life skills. Kilmarnock management is proud of this form of recognition. To this outsider, though, it would seem the friendly and sociable, yet 10 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 Historic agreement between retirement village industry and residents’ association

The Retirement Villages glad they moved to their village, but Association (RVA) and the Retirement like any area where there are many Villages Residents’ Association personalities involved, sometimes of New Zealand (RVRANZ) have an issue can arise. The Residents’ committed to closer collaboration Association looks forward to working and co-operation with the signing of with the RVA in developing best a Memorandum of Understanding practice in a range of areas as well (MoU). as encouraging debate about the “The interests of our village residents industry model and potential options.” are at the heart of everything we do The RVRANZ will also work with the so it’s great news that the RVA and Commission for Financial Capability RVRANZ will be working together to fi nalise a short Resident Handbook to support the provision of a quality living environment for older New From left to right:: Graham Wilkinson, Bill McDonald, Michelle Burke, John Collyns for forming and conducting a resident (RVA), Chair Troy Churton (CFFC), Peter Carr, Anton Coetzee, Dick Williams and Zealanders,” Graham Wilkinson, committee, and will continue their Nigel Matthews (RVRANZ). work in monitoring the eff ectiveness president of the RVA, said. leading’ by countries where villages regularly. The RVA also undertook to “More than 45,000 New Zealanders are prevalent. remind members that residents have of the current legislation. choose to live in retirement villages and “However, we are always looking the right to form a village Residents’ The Retirement Villages independent research commissioned to make improvements and this Committee if they so wish. Association of New Zealand (RVA) by agencies such as the Commission agreement with the RVRANZ will The MoU also has a focus on is a voluntary industry association for Financial Capability have reported provide an opportunity to gain eff ective training so that village staff that represents the interests of the overwhelming general satisfaction valuable input and insights in a range continue to provide emotionally- owners, developers and managers of among residents. of areas.” intelligent care and support for their 96% of registered retirement village “New Zealand’s retirement villages As part of the MoU, the associations residents. Peter Carr, President of units across New Zealand. The are also subject to a regulatory have agreed to develop a structure the RVRANZ, welcomed the signing RVRANZ is a voluntary organisation framework with safeguards and and process for a Resident Advisory of the MoU. that represents the interests of many consumer protection for residents, Group (RAG) including members from “The overwhelming majority of thousands of residents at retirement which is often referred to as ‘world both associations, which will meet residents in villages are satisfi ed and villages in New Zealand. A friendly face and helping hand 2020 was a year of refl ection for to help our clients to live life to the full • Social outings quality, personalised service, at a many of us. So many people around and retain their independence. We • Scenic drives and much more! reasonable price. the world were isolated from family off er a personalised, friendly driving We have plenty of room in the boot Here is what some of our clients and friends and consequently felt and companion service and pride for wheelchairs and walkers and take say about us. deep loneliness. It reminds us of the ourselves in off ering a friendly face group bookings. ‘Helen was absolutely marvellous importance of staying connected with and helping hand when needed. Why not book one of our increasingly and off ers a fantastic service.’ our communities, making time to visit We can stay with you when you are popular full or half-day outings? We ‘Lift Companion Driving is superb, friends and family, and just getting out out and off er that extra support and are happy to organise and suggest a wonderful service at a very and about to do the things we love. assistance as required. trips or choose somewhere yourself reasonable price.’ Summer is a wonderful time of year Lift can off er transport and and let us take care of the details. For a competitive free quote and to make the most of fi ne weather and assistance with; If there is something you require set price up front, call Helen on 027 sunny days, loss of a driver’s licence • Medical appointments help with, we would be happy to 775 5671 or email [email protected] doesn’t mean stopping doing the • Shopping have a chat about your options. We You can also read more about Lift things that you love to do. • Pets to the vets tailor our service to each client’s Companion Driving at our website At Lift Companion Driving we love • Airport transfers requirements and aim to off er a www.yourlift.co.nz A

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This snow would lie all worked for six years developing New from Molesworth, through Hanmer, winter long. Mervyn remembers large Zealand’s largest farm, Molesworth to the railway station at Culverden. snow mounds in which animals died Station, under the management There they loaded them onto wagons from suff ocation and hunger. Digging of legendary boss Bill Chisholm. destined for the Addington saleyards into these mounds the men found Molesworth had been ravaged by in Christchurch. These drives became starving sheep that had been eating rabbits before the Government famous through television coverage. the wool off one anothers’ backs. He bought it in 1938. Chisholm was Asked about anxious moments, found a group of dead horses in a lured from Southland to run the giant Mervyn Harris Mervyn tells of giving Chisholm’s snow mound. The horses had been Marlborough property. One of his fi rst professional deer and goat culler. seven-year-old son a ride in the eating the hair off one another’s actions was to hire Mervyn, who was Armed with a Lee-Enfi eld .303 rifl e, quad truck. The truck became stuck manes and tails. just 14 at the time. Mervyn shot 1000 goats, 300 deer in a swiftly fl owing stream. Water Mervyn is lyrical about life on Chisholm had seen the lad fencing and 100 pigs in one blitz. was halfway up the door. Mervyn Molesworth but not about life in his on a neighbouring station and had Rabbits remained the worst pest. knew he could swim to safety but home towns of Rangiora, Balcairn witnessed his honesty. He off ered Mervyn shot them in countless feared the boy would perish. Trying and Cheviot, where his father was a him a job, to which Mervyn replied: numbers. He also turned a bit of to drive forward only bogged the council grader driver and overseer. “But I don’t have any dogs.” railway iron into a single-furrow truck deeper. Using the current, he He barely mentions his jobs in a Chisholm’s response was: “Don’t plough that he towed behind the managed to turn the truck enough for limeworks, as a council labourer, in worry about that; you can use mine”. station’s ex-Army quad truck. He fed it to be washed down stream. At last panel-beating. He could talk for hours Mervyn accepted the job – and the poisoned carrots into the trench this he found solid footing and drove the about the back country. boss’s dogs accepted him. Not that created. Thousands of rabbits died truck onto the bank. “I thoroughly enjoyed the work, the he needed dogs all the time. His work from eating the carrots. “There were always river crossings, friendship,” he says. His only mishap entailed all sorts of jobs. One of them At the same time, Mervyn says, wherever you went, always a river to was a broken ankle caused by falling was shooting rabbits. pilots returning from World War II cross,” Mervyn says. from his horse. It was beautiful, Rabbits had eaten so much grass dropped tonnes of poisoned carrots Weather often presented beautiful. There’s something about that “the land was just dirt”, says from Tiger Moth aircraft on the more challenges. He once saved a mate’s the back country that hangs onto Mervyn. He was a “reasonable” shot diffi cult terrain. Mervyn’s work ethic life as the two battled a freezing rain you. I still love to go out there.” at fi rst and improved with practice at impressed the boss and he was storm that blew up suddenly. His But going out there does not happen the Cheviot Gun Club. Shooting for promoted to Head Stockman. He got mate was blue with hypothermia but any more. At 94, Mervyn seldom gets real on the barren Molesworth slopes on well with Chisholm but knew some Mervyn got him to a hut and revived far from his Amberley home and his and fl ats sharpened his eye further. station hands didn’t share the feeling. him. Such storms could last 10 days wife, Joy, nearly 90. 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Strive to keep roles your condition. you can hook into that help the better a reason for what has been going on that help you maintain your sense Knowledge is power! The more it is for you. for them or their family member. It of who you are. e.g. husband/wife, you can learn about your condition, Maintain your wellbeing and is likely that you will react diff erently grandparent, gardener, baker, friend. the better you will be able to manage safety. from one day to the next, or that some Resist the urge to avoid social symptoms and maybe slow down their Do what it takes to maintain your family members react diff erently to contact. progression. Dementia Canterbury health and wellbeing by taking some the diagnosis than others. 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The exception is bananas, which This is a great recipe for using We all want to minimise waste, save should be kept at room temperature up little bits and pieces. Instead of creamed corn it could be chilli beans some money and look after the in a separate bowl! or canned salmon and instead of red environment. 6. Store your bread in the freezer. pepper you could add some peas or Here are our ten tips for keeping Each year we throw out 15,000 baby spinach leaves. your waste down, particularly if you tonnes of bread. It’s the number Ingredients live by yourself: one food that we waste. The humid Oil spray OR oil for greasing tins 1. Plan your meals for the week and climate in New Zealand means that 3 x Wholemeal sliced bread with make a shopping list. Make yourself bread often goes mouldy faster than crusts removed a cuppa and fi nd a spot in the sun it goes stale. 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Did you know potatoes should reusable containers – remember to Method with salad for lunch or a light meal. be stored in a cool, dry, and dark name and date your bounty! Preheat oven to 190◦C. Refrigerate any leftover quiches for place, like a cupboard? They should 8. Play it safe and avoid foodborne Lightly grease muffi n tins with oil and the following day or freeze. These be stored away from onions, as they illness. The 2:2:2 rule is one to a pastry brush, or oil spray. If pans can be eaten straight from the fridge both release moisture which causes remember: make sure you cool are non-stick, no oil is necessary. or reheated in the oven until they are Flatten bread slices individually them to sprout faster. Unwashed leftovers, cover them, and get them piping hot. potatoes last longer than clean potatoes. 3. Include frozen and canned Mature Moves all about helping people to move vegetables in your repertoire. The If you are considering moving into a and out, and complete the gardening services. However, if you feel they evidence is clear – eating vegetables smaller home, perhaps a retirement to get houses ready for sale. Mature may be of assistance a quotation can is great for our health. Do you village or residential care and you Moves is about helping people. You be provided for your consideration. fi nd that you put off buying fresh feel you could use some help Mature let them know what you need help You can call Mature Moves on 0800 vegetables because they go limp Moves could be your answer. with and they will set about showing 777 214 to talk about your move. or mouldy? Frozen and canned It is a Christchurch based company you just what they can do to help you. 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The road real name was Bill Cowie, would continues beside the lake, heading for have been devastated by news that the Haast Pass and South Westland. an international airport is planned Lake Hawea village has not entirely for the Upper Clutha township of escaped an infl ux of new residents. Tarras. To locals Willie is a character Village stalwart Edna Capell told me of legend, an accident-prone fi gure of people began to discover the majestic local history. mountain views in the 1950s, as cars I interviewed Willie in 1991. He and roads were improving. Soon the impressed me as a generous man best vantage spots were gobbled who loved his image as a hard-case up with baches and houses. More shearer, deer culler, farmer, fencer, people have moved in since but many storyteller and collector of junk almost of the new houses stand on a former as much as he loved Tarras and its Ministry of Works camp site on the people. He explained that everyone south side of the terminal moraine called him Willie Wong because as formed by an ancient glacier. The a primary school pupil he dressed views there are not so great, she as a Chinese gold miner for a school concert. His appearance “brought the said. So, will Lake Hawea go the same house down”. Relics of the past at Bendigo. way as Wanaka and Queenstown? Willie died nearly 10 years ago, business; it’s a way of life”. other rivers, such as the Kawarau Will Tarras? Could that shudder I feel all alone in his rundown cottage Perhaps an airport in the Tarras at Cromwell and the Manaherikia be Willie Wong’s answer? crammed with memorabilia. His loss valley will change all that. Thinking at Alexandra, it produces more was felt by people all over Central about this reminded me of chatting electricity at Roxburgh, before Otago. If you make the trip south to an old-timer at Twizel who was forging on to the Pacifi c Ocean past through the Lindis Pass to Tarras, worried about the new buildings Balclutha. Transport you may feel his vibe even now. going up in his MacKenzie Country Gold mining features in Upper I fi rst drove the Lindis in 1967. The town. He hated Queenstown’s Clutha history. At the Bendigo road, if you could call it that, was a development from a village to a diggings, a little south of Tarras, are you can trust rutted gravel track with steep climbs teeming tourist metropolis. He remnants of old stone cottages where and sharp bends. Many drivers claimed that Wanaka was heading diggers once lived. Much of this land preferred the much longer route the same way. He wondered how is now covered in grape vines. south, via Palmerston, Ranfurly and long it would be before Lake Hawea Turn right just out of Tarras and Alexandra. Not now, though, as the village was similarly spoiled. 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Social Connection Team – Age Concern Canterbury Phone 366 0903 or www.ageconcerncan.org.nz Visiting Service or individualised support & advice: ask for Rebecca or Peter. Social Outings: ask for Katie or Debbie. Page 11 Proof Read Deirdre Hazel Anna-Marie 24 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 How do blended families Help available to keep provide for children in wills? In today’s modern times, “Blended that your asset will go to your Families” have become the norm, nominated benefi ciaries whether you warm and healthy rather than the exception. “Blended you pass away before or after your Family” is a term used to describe a spouse. family comprising two spouses, each The other spouse is also looked or either of whom have been in an after through the use of a “Life earlier relationship and have a child/ Interest” provision in the Will. This children from that earlier relationship. recognises that when Spouse A Dies, Therefore, Spouse A has their they need certainty of occupancy in children, and Spouse B has their own the home, despite the fact that they separate children. only own a half share and the estate With good legal advice, the estate of Spouse B owns the other half planning challenges this presents share. The worry is that the children can be well-managed to achieve a of Spouse B may want to move protection for all concerned. quickly, sell the home and receive A commonly used tool in such their share of the sale proceeds. To scenarios is that of “Life Interest protect the surviving spouse, a Life Wills”. This concept involves the Interest provision is used in the Wills, separation of the legal ownership of to say that the surviving spouse can CEA Charitable Trust’s assessors can check the insulation. the family home into two separate reside in the home for the rest of their parts; one half for Spouse A and one life. It is only once the life interest Community Energy Action (CEA) FREE ceiling and underfl oor half for Spouse B. This then allows has ended, which is generally on the provides advice and services to insulation and an on-ground moisture each Spouse to deal with their half as passing of the surviving spouse, that homeowners that improve the health barrier. CEA can help you access this they wish in their Will and overrides the children would expect to receive and energy effi ciency of homes fi nancial support and provide quotes the joint ownership rules that would their inheritance of the family home throughout Canterbury and the West for installation for homes that do not otherwise have applied. or sale proceeds. Coast. We are a charitable trust and qualify. Our installation services get In their Will, each spouse can then If you would like practical, helpful place the wellbeing of our customers booked up over winter so be in quick. leave their half share of the property legal advice on how to structure your and our community at the heart of all Free curtains to their own children. The advantage assets as a blended family, please we do. Here are some ways we can Good curtains are important to shut of structuring your aff airs this way, is contact our offi ce on 03 366 5540 to help you. out the cold and keep in the heat. that you can have certainty knowing make an appointment. A Free home advice CEA collects good quality second Book a Home Energy Check and hand curtains and makes them our friendly and qualifi ed advisers available to households. Our Curtain will visit your home and provide you Bank is a free service, however with detailed verbal advice about the a contribution helps with running health and energy effi ciency of your costs and is greatly appreciated. We home. You will also receive a written suggest a gold coin donation from report prioritising the best ways to cut low income households and a $20 energy bills and improve the health donation from landlords. of your home. In Christchurch this For more information and to book service is free for all homeowners. your free Home Energy Check Tenants will need permission from visit www.cea.co.nz or call 0800 landlords. GETWARM. Insulation and heating subsidies The government’s Warmer Kiwi Homes programme is now off ering some great deals. Eligible home owners can receive a 90% subsidy for a home heating appliance, (such as a heat pump or log burner, to a maximum of $3,000 incl. GST) and AGE CONCERN CANTERBURY IS LOOKING FOR ENGERGETIC AND RELIABLE CLEANERS to clean houses for older adults living in the community. Needed in Sumner, St Martin, Halswell and North Canterbury areas. Casual work only. Payment is on an hourly rate. Drivers licence and an appropriate level of fi tness is required. For more information please phone Deb on 366-0903 FEBRUARY 2021 KEEPING ON 25 Panama hats, gloves and garters

by Colin Amodeo When Age Concern Canterbury to England. He handled his classes moved from Barrington Street to in much the same way. It was Papanui, it occupied the former Bank customary to see his boys sweeping of New Zealand site. As editor of the quad and collecting rubbish Mollie Chalklin's history of Papanui from the playing fi elds in the public High School, 'The School at the humiliation of an 'emu parade' [Bend Terminus', I recall, "in the 1960s, the down, pick up, bend down, pick up.] bank was well-known to staff from Papanui High School was co-ed Papanui who often cashed their but some boundaries still existed. salary cheques there. Incidentally, There were separate girls and boys the Terminus was at the junction of junior classes. The sexes, senior and the Main North and Harewood Roads junior, were not supposed to meet where the trams turned in a large across the yellow line painted on the circle to return to Cathedral Square." quad-cum-tennis court between the Joining the English Department in Science Wing and the Main Block. 1967, he recalls "this was a time when Prefects were entrusted to patrol the wooden main building featured the barrier. This rarely worked. Boys the architecture of the 1930s, with The front of the Papanui High School main entrance is no longer visible from the held hands with girls, their arms prefabs along the railway boundary. street but the old main building of the 1930s has a defi nite charm. held out over no-man's land. Prefect My classroom was one such and Company site. From here, sawdust bygone age. Not far from the school popularity decreased in proportion to rattled each time the Picton goods could drift across the road from the baths - a mecca in hot weather - the the number of detentions for missing train thundered past. The lesson extractor fans. The suburb formerly Johns Wing off the Assembly Hall gloves and Panama hats (girls), would stop while junior classes contained the 'Papanui Bush' hence, was later truncated when the road garterless socks and dirty shoes counted the number of wagons with 'Sawyers Arms Road' and the local was built and further separated the (boys). sixpences changing hands when pub. After it burned down and was school from Northlands Mall. Headmaster Ted Fancy who the fi gure went above thirty-fi ve. renamed 'The Phoenix', senior pupils Assemblies were fi ve mornings- followed Lester Newton, was Before Kaiapoi High School was in uniform had to be removed from a-week aff airs. Teachers wore turning Papanui from an off shoot of built, Kaiapoi pupils came to Papanui the public bar. academic gowns on stage, often Christchurch Technical College into by train with regular high-jinks A year or two later, after transferring glowering down on the front row of an institution with a wider curriculum. reported by the railway guard to the to the Plimsoll Wing, he found this naughty pupils rendering alternative Most of the previous separations Deputy Headmaster. One excuse for was a more solid building but the versions of standard lyrics in their were relaxed, proving that co-ed homework not done was that it had metal water heaters could not be song books. The orchestra or brass actually worked. This was certainly so been thrown over the Waimak bridge. turned off in winter. band could not always obliterate in English classes. With girls, it was School caps sometimes went the "I was in the front ground fl oor certain forbidden words. This was a possible to hear Juliet sigh for her same way.” classroom. As my pupils grew more happy way to lead in to Period One. Romeo or Lady Macbeth announce The smell of Weetbix wafting red-faced and sweaty, we would On one occasion, the Progressive her ambitions in a pleasant female over from the Sanitarium factory open the windows then receive Youth Movement mounted guard at voice; much better than the squeaky was pervasive, especially during complaints from other teachers that the front gate and used a megaphone strangulations of a boy with changing hot nor'westers when the windows the temperature in their rooms had to persuade pupils to join a protest and vocal chords. were open. There could also be the dropped. It was a relief when the bell refuse to go to class. Our annoyed Papanui was big on annual major odour of rubber emanating from the sounded and the heat departed into HOD Geography turned up the Hall productions. One year, it would be tyre factory on the other side of the the corridor before the next class sound system with the booming light opera and music; the next year, railway line. By comparison, in mid- arrived, often cold!” thunder of the the '1812 Overture', full-blown drama. Unfortunately, winter the pot-belly stove ramped up Cricket was played on a good pitch severally repeated. The Progessive with seasons lasting two or three the heat with condensation dribbling facing Langdons Road, a green Youths could not compete and faded nights, the set had to be broken down the frost-covered glass like sward now landscaped and built away. down ready for morning assembly perspiration. over. With the background of the old The HOD Woodwork had fl own then reconstructed for the next The Papanui Library now occupies main building, this was a pleasant a damaged RAF Spitfi re out of a performance. Frustrating, but that's part of the old Papanui Timber reminder of village cricket from a Norwegian fi ord and brought it back the way it was! School Certifi cate and University Entrance were great. You could have fun with classes for seven months TRADES then hound them for several weeks prior to November exams. Huge relief for everyone when December Est. prizegiving arrived, and the fi nal 1979 ROSS GALT ROOF LOCK AND ALARM LTD results were announced in the New & PROPERTY SERVICES 95 Kingsley Street Year. Christchurch Three school terms not four, yet the PH 347-2635 or 0274-847-980 Phone pressures seemed less than today. 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There is no recently retired after 30 years of use of alcohol and other drugs, to part of our service is to visit people pressure to change anything people working with people with addictions regain an improved quality of life. in their homes where they feel most accept me there how I am.” Tim says, “this is the most successful Services off ered: comfortable. “We have some real laughs as group that I have ever been a part of.” * Consultation for other services. 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August 2020 there were two groups Fax: 03 358 2907 * Co-Existing problems treatment. “It is my safe place.” Mary. one at Age Concern Canterbury, 24 Main North Road, Papanui on Email: Wednesdays 10.30am to 12.30pm [email protected] Inspiring independent living and one at the South Library 66 www.odysseychch.org.nz Colombo Street, Cashmere on 98-100 Greers Road, Burnside. Living in an enabling community or Contact Aspire on 03 366 9093 for a disabling community? A question information. I've always wondered if chickens Aspire Canterbury always asks to Mobile Service: ideally located communicated using fowl language. reduce the barriers of everyday living for suburban arterial routes, Aspire Maybe only when they're egg cited. for people with impairments and Canterbury off ers an unique mobile disabilities. van service for the Christchurch and An invisible man married an invisible Nestled in the heart of Bishopdale’s Wider Canterbury region. Aspire woman. The kids were nothing to look bustling retail mall, Aspire Canterbury makes it easy for you to access at either. was established in 1982. Having equipment, information, and services. recently relocated to Bishopdale, it is It can provide a guest speaker for I didn't think the chiropractor would grass roots, community-based NGO community group meetings, rest improve my posture. But I stand which provides a range of services homes, church groups, Probus corrected. across Christchurch and wider groups etc. For more information Canterbury. contact one of their friendly team on To ensure we live in a connected 03 366 6189 Steady As You Go (SAYGo) world, Aspire has a range of services Information Service: Funded by it provides in the community: Ministry of Health Aspire provides Falls Prevention – Exercise Classes Shop and Hire of equipment: There free, unbiased information to keep in Canterbury (February 2021) is an extensive range of products both you up-to-date and connected. It in the Bishopdale Shop and online can also assist with the navigation For more information about any of these groups please phone Age Concern Canterbury 366 0903. Please for sale or hire, ACC approved and of services, funding, and information note that some classes are currently waitlisted and cannot accept new members at present. For other classes, just go along. A koha of $2.00 is appreciated. Each class is a one - hour session. can provide WINZ quotes. Happy about alternative provider services. to source exactly what you need Surrounding shops include Ma CHRISTCHURCH CITY AND SOUTH from one of the many suppliers, it is Baker and alternative eateries, hair Day /Time AREA Location of class Mon 10.00am St Albans Abberley Park Hall, Abberley Crescent committed to providing you with the salons, Peter Timbs butchers, a Mon 10.00am Redcliffs Port Hills Uniting Church, Augusta St equipment you need to ‘live well’. postal service, a supermarket, and Mon 10.00am Parklands (Waitlist) Parkview Lounge, Parklands Community Centre, Queenspark Dr Total Mobility Scheme: The Total they are close to the YMCA, so make Mon 10.30am Wainoni (Waitlist) Celebration Centre, 81 Bickerton St Mobility scheme assists eligible a day of it, pop in and see the friendly Mon 10.30am Hei Hei Wycola Ave Community Centre Hei Hei Mon 11.00am Harewood (1) (Waitlist) St James Church Hall, Harewood Road, airport end individuals, to access transport and team, or give Aspire Canterbury a Mon 1.00pm Harewood (2) (Waitlist) St James Church Hall, Harewood Road, airport end enhance community participation. call. Mon 1.00pm Halswell (1) (Waitlist) Te Hapua, Halswell Service Centre and Library, 341 Halswell Rd The scheme provides 50% “I can’t change the direction of the Mon.1.30pm Spreydon Maurice Carter Courts Hall, 16 Dundee Place discounted taxi fares with a maximum wind, but I can adjust my sails to Mon 2.00pm Harewood (3) St James Church Hall, Harewood Rd, airport end subsidy (terms and conditions apply). reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean. A Mon 2.00pm Papanui Papanui Village Presbyterian Church, Frank Street Tues 9.00am Sydenham Nazareth House, 220 Brougham Street, Sydenham Tues 9.30am Papanui Waitlist Age Concern Centre, cnr Main North Rd and Loftus St Tues 10.00am Parklands (Waitlist) Parkview Lounge, Parklands Community Centre, Queenspark Dr inspiring independent living Tues. 10.00am South Brighton (TBC) South Brighton Community Centre, Beattie Street. ASPIREASPIRE CANTERBURYŝƐĂŶŽƚͲĨŽƌͲƉƌŽĮƚŽƌŐĂŶŝƐĂƟŽŶ͕ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚŽǀĞƌϯϬͲLJĞĂƌƐĂŐŽ͘ is a not-for-profi t organisation, established over 40 years ago Tues. 10.00am St Albans Lamb of God Community Centre, 21 Thames Street, St Albans Tues 10.30am Upper Riccarton Fletcher Place Residents Lounge, off Bowen Street ŝƐĂďŝůŝƚLJ/ŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞͲƵŶďŝĂƐĞĚŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ͕ Tues 10.30am Bryndwr (Waitlist) Bryndwr Chapel, 179 Idris Road QShop and hire of assistive technology. Tues 1.30pm Hornby Community Care Centre, Goulding Avenue TotalǁĞĂƌĞŚĞƌĞƚŽůŝƐƚĞŶĂŶĚŚĞůƉLJŽƵ͘ Mobility Scheme - 50% off Taxi’s up to a maximum Tues 2.00pm Waltham Waltham Cottage, 201 Hastings St East QofDŽďŝůĞ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞƐͲŽŶŶĞĐƟŶŐǁŝƚŚƚŚĞĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͘ $35 (terms and conditions apply) Wed 10.30am Redwood (Waitlist) Manse Place Residents’ Lounge, off Main North Road Wed 10.45am Halswell 2 Te Hapua, Halswell Service Centre and Library, 341 Halswell Rd QMobiledŽƚĂůDŽďŝůŝƚLJ^ĐŚĞŵĞͲϱϬйŽīdĂdžŝΖƐƵƉƚŽŵĂdžŝŵƵŵΨϯϱ Services - connecting with the community. ;dĞƌŵƐĂŶĚŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐĂƉƉůLJͿ͘ Wed 1.30pm Lincoln Lincoln Community Care, Lyttelton St, Disability Information Service - unbiased Thurs 9.30am Riccarton Kauri Lodge, 148 Riccarton Road Q ^ŚŽƉĂŶĚ,ŝƌĞŽĨĂƐƐŝƐƟǀĞƚĞĐŚŶŽůŽŐLJ͘ information, we are here to listen and help you. Thurs 10.00am Heathcote Malt Works Villa Hall, Port Hills Rd Thurs 9.30am St Albans Abberley Park Hall, Abberley Crescent Thurs 11.00am Avonside/Linwood Holy Trinity Church, 168 Stanmore Road tĞŶŽǁƐƚŽĐŬĐŽŶƟŶĞŶĐĞƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ͊ Fri 9.30am Hoon Hay Hoon Hay Presbyterian Church Lounge, 5 Downing St Q džĐĞůůĞŶƚůĞĂŬĂŐĞƉƌŽƚĞĐƟŽŶĂŶĚ Fri 10.00am New Brighton (Waitlist) New Brighton Library – in the Pay and Display Room ƐŬŝŶĚƌLJŶĞƐƐĨŽƌƚŚĞƵƐĞƌ͘ Fri 10.00am Opawa Opawa Community Church, cnr Opawa Rd and Aynsley Tce Q ŝƐĐƌĞĞƚƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘Q&ƌĞĞĚĞůŝǀĞƌLJ͘ Sat. 10.30am Spreydon Maurice Carter Courts Hall, 16 Dundee Place NORTH CANTERBURY Contact us face to face or over the phone for a chat about your needs. Day time AREA Location of class Tues 10.00am Rangiora RSA Building, Victoria Street Ph: 03P > 36603 366 6189. 6189 •FREEPHONE FREEPHONE 0800 0800 347 347 242 242. Wed 10.00am Rangiora Ballarat Retirement Village, 21 Ballarat Rd Ph:P > (TOTAL (TOTAL MOBILITY) MOBILITY) 03 03 366 366 9093. 9093 17E • Bishopdale 314 Worcester Courts, St, Bishopdale,Linwood, Christchurch Christchurch Wed 11.00am Amberley Amberley Library, RSA Room Thurs 10.30am Rotherham Rotherham Hotel, 42 George St Email:E > [email protected]@aspirecanterbury.org.nz • WWebsite: > www.aspirecanterbury.org.nz www.aspirecanterbury.org.nz Thurs 10.00am Oxford Oxford Town Hall, 34 Main Street FEBRUARY 2021 KEEPING ON 27 Shirley Recreation Walkers welcome new members Meet at 9:30am, Mondays and VICTORIA PARK (2 hours approx) BELLBIRD-KENNEDYS BUSH Thursdays by the Shirley Community This walk follows a four wheel drive (DAY WALK) Take lunch, drinks, Centre Site for car pool to start of track alongside a stream, then west warm/waterproof clothing, good walk. Park on Chancellor Street through pine vegetation to Victoria shoes/boots. This walk takes you (entrance off Shirley Road). If you Park and back. Take lunch to have along The Crater Rim Walkway to want to go straight to the start of early on in Victoria Park during this The Sign of the Bellbird, then on to walk, you must let Sue know on the walk. Start from the car park at the The Orongamai Trail in Kennedys day. Phone Sue on 981 7071. $4.00 end of Bowenvale Avenue. Bush. Return via the Crater Rim. petrol contribution to driver (unless 11th March, MULGANS Start from the car park off Hoon Hay otherwise stated). Please note TRACK GREENWOOD PARK Reserve (just past Worsleys Road). that some walks could be subject approx.) This walk features Shirley EASTENDERS TRACK (2½ hours $5.00 to driver. to change due to road, footpath, Golf Course, Horseshoe Lake and approx.) This walk goes up over 25th March HARRY ELL TRACK walkway and track conditions, also Burwood Park. It will be followed Clifton Hill and above, then down The (2 hours approx.) Walk from The due to availability of cars on the day. by a Pot Luck Lunch at Maureen’s. Eastenders track into Barnett Park. Sign of the Takahe up Victoria Park Mondays Please bring along a plate of food for As this walk is a little longer, take Road and onto the Harry Ell Track. 1st March QUEENSPARK NORTH a shared lunch. Start from Chancellor lunch to enjoy along the way. Start We will have our morning tea stop at SHORE (2 hours approx.) This Street off Shirley Road. from Barnett Park off Main Road in The Sign of the Kiwi Café. Return via walk skirts the edge of Bottle Lake 22nd March SOUTHSHORE SPIT- Redcliff s. Harry Ell Track, Dyers Pass Road. Forest, then goes through North ESTUARY WALK(2 hours approx.) 18th March HOON HAY Park on Dyers Pass Road near The Shore to reach Broad Park. Return This walk features Southshore RESERVE-SIGN OF THE Sign of the Takahe. via Eastwood Rise Reserve and Beach, Southshore Spit and the back through Queenspark. Start from walkway beside The Estuary with a the corner of Rothesay Road and variety of birdlife. Start from Caspian Life-saving bowel screening Queenspark Drive. Street near Rockinghorse Road. 8th March PINES BEACH, 29th March HEATHCOTE RIVER- Canterbury seniors should be Teresa Chalmers-Watson, explains KAIRAKI (1½ hours approx.) Enjoy CHARLESWORTH RESERVE delighted that Canterbury is now that the test picks up tiny traces of time out in these two beachside (1½ hours approx.) This walk is part of the National Bowel Screening blood in poo, which is an early sign settlements. This walk features the courtesy of Ruth and features part Programme. Free simple-to-use that something might be wrong. Waimakariri River Mouth and a walk of The Heathcote Towpath and the bowel screening kits have begun to “If we need to investigate further, along the beach. Take lunch to enjoy Charlesworth Reserve. It will include go out to Canterbury people between either your GP or someone from following this walk. Start from Dunns a later morning tea stop with a visit to the ages of 60 and 74. our hospital team will be in touch to Road (just past Chichester Street) Colombus Café in Ferrymead Mitre If you are aged 60 to 73 and born make a time for you to come and get be-side the Pines Oval. $5.00 to 10 Mega. Park cars on Tidal View. off on an even number date, you will checked.” driver. Humphries Drive. receive a test kit on or near your “When we catch cancers early 15th March SHIRLEY- Thursdays birthday this year (November 2020 – enough, we are much more likely to HORSESHOE LAKE WALK(2 hours 4th March 2021, BOWENVALE November 2021). be able to treat them successfully If you were born on an odd number – and we can also fi nd and remove date, you will receive your test kit small growths (polyps) before they on or near your birthday next year even become cancer.” UPDATE FROM THE CLUBS (November 2021 – November 2022). “One last piece of advice: Please Seventy-four year-olds will all use your kit soon after you receive it Amberley Welcome Club members enjoyed a trip to Akaroa and a pre- receive a kit this year. and post it back straight away – the Christmas dinner at the Better Half Kitchen was enjoyed by all. Meet: The kit detects early signs of bowel kit may spoil if you leave it too long,” Monthly at Amberley Church Hall. Contact: Ann McKenzie on 03 3149943. cancer and this important programme Dr Chalmers-Watson says. “And could save 100 or more lives in the don’t forget to enclose the consent Elizabeth Bridge Club members meet every Wednesday for bridge. They fi rst year alone. form, signed and dated, and stick the are a friendly club and visitors are welcome. There is easy parking available. You will receive a kit that includes a unique label to your kit – so we know Please arrive by 12.50 in time for a 1.00pm start. Meet: Wednesdays, 1.00 to ‘test tube’ that is around the size of a who it’s from.” 4.00pm at the Christchurch Bridge club rooms, 21 Nova Place (off Barbadoes USB stick and pulls apart to reveal a If, at any age, you have worrying Street). Contact: Maureen on 021 646 123. www.elizabethbridgeclub.co.nz. sampler ‘wand’. Each kit comes with signs or symptoms such as blood in prepaid packaging to get it to the lab your poo or unusual bowel movements Lincoln Area Senior Citizens members enjoyed a talk on the importance for analysis. that continue for weeks – don’t wait of Bee Keeping from Geoff Hantz in November and in December the Lions Canterbury DHB Clinical Lead for for a kit – make an appointment to catering team prepared and served an excellent Christmas lunch at the the bowel screening programme, Dr see your doctor immediately. A Lincoln Events Centre. In February members will go on a bus trip to Oxford with lunch at the Rustic Country Hotel. The Clubs AGM will be held on March 2nd with speaker Vivienne Butcher, Principal of Lincoln Primary School. Meet: Tuesdays at 1.30pm Lincoln Events Centre. New members Be there for your grandchildren! welcome. Contact: Theresa on 325 2449 or email redroses1113@xtra. This little test could save your life. co.nz. South Elder Care We provide a programme for older people living in South Christchurch who are suff ering from: * Dementia * A disability or mental health related issue * Loneliness * A need for social support. We off er: * Morning tea and a home cooked lunch * Social interaction and fun * Bowls, croquet and Rummy-O * A chance to keep up with daily Free bowel screening for all 60–74 year olds. news * Gentle exercises and walks * Quizzes. Bowel screening detects cancers early when they are easier to treat. Tuesdays, 10.00am to 2.30pm at St Martins Visit www.timetoscreen.nz for more information Presbyterian Church, 43 St Martins Road. Free phone 0800 924 432 or talk to your GP team For more information contact Jeanette on 027 323 0256 or Sue on 021 225 0020. Or email [email protected] 28 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 Loburn Red Cross Staying Safe; a refresher course for older drivers AGE CONCERN CANTERBURY Have you kept up with changes to the road code? Is it time to familiarise yourself with traffi c rules and safer driving practices? Age Concern Canterbury, together with Waka Kotahi (New Zealand Transport Agency), will continue to hold free refresher courses for older drivers throughout Loburn Red Cross is continuing the region. Staying Safe - With the appointment of Wendy to provide an ‘all-you-can-eat’ Fox as the new Staying Safe course Confi dent Driving afternoon tea and small country facilitator, Age Concern Canterbury is Courses sales table during the months of beginning to roll out the programme February to November for groups across Canterbury and the West looking for a local outing. Coast. 10.00am to 2.30pm. The venue is the Loburn Reserve The theory-based programme, There is a $10.00 pavilion on the Loburn-Whiterock called 'Staying Safe', is designed to charge for lunch. enhance your knowledge, assess Road, just before the Karikaas your current driving behaviour, Wendy Fox, Age Concern Dutch cheese factory, and the cost recognise the eff ects of ageing on Canterbury’s new Staying Safe Courses held at Age Concern is $8.00 per person. driving and build confi dence. course facilitator Canterbury, 24 Main North Road, For enquiries and/or bookings Staying Safe is four-hours of will take place through the year. To Papanui, Christchurch on: please contact: classroom-based learning and is book your spot, call 03 366 0903 or Mary Stewart on (03) 313-8393. interactive, answering any questions visit www.ageconcerncan.org.nz you might have. Monday, 15th March All money raised goes directly to Want to learn as a group? You can Everyone who attends will be request larger bookings of around Wednesday, 14th April the Red Cross. issued with a certifi cate and will also 15-20 people. Monday, 17th May We look forward to meeting some be given a workbook to take away. SuperGold card holders and Maori new groups. Classes are being scheduled and or Pasifi ka drivers over 60 are eligible. Wednesday, 23rd June Wednesday, 28th July Mary Potter and the Little Company of Mary - did you know? Wednesday, 25th August Wednesday, 22nd September The Congregation of the Little Zealand. Over the years thousands of and the Mary Potter Community Company of Mary (LCM) was founded Cantabrians were born at Lewisham/ Centre and Italian Garden – available Wednesday, 13th October in Nottingham England in 1877 by Calvary! for hire by organisations whose Wednesday, 24th November Venerable Mary Potter. 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Kate Sheppard was around 40 in 1888, the year she and her family moved into the brand-new wooden villa at 83 Clyde Road, Ilam. Now part of inner Christchurch, it was then a rural section some fi ve kilometres from the city centre. Today, 132 years later, what is now known as Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House was opened by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The government bought the house in 2018 to mark the 125th anniversary of women’s suff rage and its former owner’s pivotal role in the movement. The landmark property will now be open to the public as a museum promoting and and celebrating Sheppard’s life and achievements. Left: Kate Sheppard and right, Kate Sheppard House at 83 Clyde Road, Ilam. Christchurch. The feminist pioneer had migrated to Christchurch from Scotland in became the founding president of the a second wave of feminism had National American Woman Suff rage 1869. She married city councillor and National Council of Women, directing raised the status of women’s history, Association from the house in merchant Walter Sheppard in 1871. activities and fostering international recovering and celebrating Sheppard Rochester, New York, where she Their son Douglas was seven when connections from the house. and her colleagues as role models. lived until her death in 1906. they moved into Clyde Road, which Kate Sheppard Brick house Today, the Susan B. Anthony was near where her two sisters, a Sheppard worked hard, advocating The Pankhurst Centre, former Museum and House “collects and brother and friends already lived. for health and well-being, education home of Emmeline Pankhurst where exhibits artifacts related to her life Because women were largely and social, political and economic the suff ragette movement began in and work, and off ers tours and excluded from the male world justice. The Married Women’s Manchester, England. interpretive programmes to inspire of politics, the house served as Property Act 1884 and the Divorce A feminist shrine? and challenge individuals to make a both home and unpaid workplace. Act 1898 were two further important With the 1993 suff rage centenary positive diff erence”. Emblematically, a domestic space feminist victories, but it took until 1910 and Sheppard’s likeness gracing In Britain, Manchester’s Pankhurst was the epicentre of woman’s for the repeal of the 1869 Contagious the New Zealand $10 note, she has Centre opened in 1987 as “an iconic suff rage, birthplace of the campaign Diseases Act, which unfairly targeted become a national heroine. Is her site of women’s activism, past and that would see New Zealand become prostitutes. house likely to become something of present”. The home of suff ragette the fi rst country in the world to Sheppard believed in women’s a feminist shrine, too? If so, it would Emmeline Pankhurst and her family enfranchise all women, regardless of economic independence, their place be part of a global trend. from 1898 to 1907, the fi rst meeting race, class or creed, on September in the professions and equal pay In 1965, the family home of US of the Women’s Social and Political 19, 1893. for equal work. She campaigned women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Union (WSPU) took place in its A centre of activism for women to be able to stand for Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, New parlour. During the prime years of her parliament, to be appointed as York, became a National Historical Keeping activism alive, the house is activism, from 1888 until 1902, justices of the peace, to act as jurors Landmark. She lived there from also a women’s centre and home to Sheppard worked in the house, and to be guardians of children. 1847 until 1862, and referred to Manchester Women’s Aid, a service writing letters, speeches and articles. Despite its illustrious history, the the farmhouse as the “centre of the for victims of domestic abuse. It seeks It was where newspapers and books Clyde Road house was mostly rebellion”. to be an “unique and vibrant place overlooked for decades. But thanks It is now part of the extensive were read, ideas formed and actions where women can learn together, plotted. Other women activists, such to a succession of owner-occupiers Women’s Rights National Historical work on projects and socialise”. as Ada Wells, and male supporters who poured love and money into Park. Opened in 1980, it focuses on With hindsight, early European Alfred Saunders and John Hall were the villa, it has not only survived but the fi rst Women’s Rights Convention feminists were reformers, but they regular visitors. thrived. held in Seneca Falls in 1848, but could also be agents of colonisation. It was in the dining room that the John Joseph Dougall, lawyer and claims a broad philosophical brief: In Aotearoa New Zealand, their iconic third petition, with 32,000 mayor of Christchurch from 1911 to It is a story of struggles for civil connections with Māori focused signatures from around the country, 1912, bought the house from Walter rights, human rights, and equality, on temperance and they tended to was pasted together and wrapped Sheppard and undertook grand global struggles that continue today. assume assimilation was inevitable. around a wooden handle for Hall to Edwardian improvements. It was The eff orts of women’s rights leaders, In the US and Britain the emerging roll down the aisle in parliament. And further extended and modernised abolitionists, and other 19th century feminist “shrines” have attempted to it was where the suff rage victory was during the ownership of Julia Burbury reformers remind us that all people celebrated. and family, who for 33 years were the must be accepted as equals. widen their remits accordingly. How After 1893 the property remained last private owners. The former home of Cady Stanton’s Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard a hub of feminist ideas for social Unlisted and largely unknown suff rage partner, Susan B. Anthony, House views its purpose and makes change. As Sheppard later put it, when Burbury bought it, the house also became a National Historic public history is a story that begins there were still many “fossilised eventually became a category one Landmark in 1965. The celebrated today. prejudices” to work on. In 1896, she historic place in 2010. By then, American civil rights leader ran the (Source: www.theconversation.co.nz) 32 KEEPING ON FEBRUARY 2021 My two cents by June Peka A few weeks back a neighbour and I stuck our necks out to protest about a Your own black couple of high density, non-compliant- with-district-plan, apartment blocks worcester sauce going up in our leafy suburb of villas and bungalows in St Albans. A Star photographer featured us draped against the gate of the one that most aff ects us – being on the section in between. We were thrilled when we heard the story generated more than 450 comments on the Star’s Facebook page. It’s good to know we’re not the only ones concerned about the mushrooming of mostly two- storeyed, eight-metre tall, mostly concrete, mostly white and grey, one and two bedroomed boxes in I popped into Yvonne Palmer’s (mostly) multiples of six, we thought. place to pick a bagful of puha she’d From the city centre to St Albans phoned to tell me about. The chooks alone, a walker can count a hundred June Peka and concerned neighbour. love it, and we’re partial too. Her similar piles, especially if you amble sunny garden is always a bit ahead up Manchester Street) and at the of mine, so I sauntered about while same time note that more than a few there, stuffi ng myself on Chocolate are vacant. Let your fi ngers do the Sprinkle tomatoes and getting tipsy walking and TradeMe will fi nd you on the perfume of lilies and roses. I many more. You won’t get much for scored a whopping courgette-marrow under $400,000 to $500,000 though. for pickle, and we got to talking Maybe one bedroom. about the looming glut of blackboy But we were wrong and I do feel peaches. They’re a big deal at our a bit lonely out here in greenie, place; each year I have to think of conservationist, neighbourhood- loving Nana-land. increasingly devious ways to offl oad Word count prevents me from the excess. I’ve been guilty of leaving addressing all of those 450 them in the post offi ce and tossing comments but that’s OK. If I ignore plastic bagsful into the prams of the many about our appearance, unsuspecting mothers. Visitors never the dandelions in the background, leave our house empty-handed. Had the ugliness of the suburb we live A new development in St Albans, Christchurch. I made black sauce of them though? in, and our need for Maga hats, Photo Courtesy of The Christchurch Star. Yvonne asked. I hadn’t but I will, after (that’s “Make America Great Again” a decent sized section in Aranui, with our neighbourhood interloper. I double-dipping into her current open for those like me who’d never heard I reckon I have a handle on what haven’t yet seen a comment from a bottle. Oh my, it’s good stuff ! Here’s of them before), and if I give no families need, and it isn’t 60 square grateful mum or dad, helped into an her recipe: It’s easy to halve. space to the poorly punctuated one- metres of upstairs and down, with aff ordable fi rst home. 2 kg blackboy peaches liners about rich and racist, fat, old, a hanky-sized lawn and not even For the record we’d be more than 1 kg white sugar elitist and selfi sh white NIMBYs, nor a clothesline to swing on. Don’t we happy to have two weatherboard, 1 kg brown sugar express surprise that so many writers want our kids to grow peas and low profi le three or four-bedroomed 1 kg tin treacle don’t know the diff erence between strawberries and observe nature any family homes full of noisy kids on 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ and ‘there and more? Ours loved that, and we loved that 758 square metre section next 2 tablespoons salt ‘they’re’, I still have about 300 words it before them. Don’t we want them to door. There’s already a pretty good 1¹/๙ tablespoons ground ginger left to explain how we’re not actually have a chook or a dog, and hear the house there. And there’s a mature 4¹/๛ litres malt vinegar anti-development, nor anti-progress birds in the trees? ngaio tree, two kowhai, punga, fruit 25gms fresh garlic, or 2 dessert Surely our rent-a-mob online trees and a grapevine. But they’ll all even. spoons crushed. abusers (trolls they’re called, be fl attened of course. We are just anti-unneccessary, 1¹/๙ tablespoons white pepper ugly uniformity and same-sameness, apparently ) aren’t kidding themselves We think our council should be 2¹/๙ tablespoons ground cloves and we care a lot about about the that their developer mates are considering the little bloke and Boil all together till peaches soften. people caught up in this country’s building these ugly blocks out of his whanau, the neighbourhood Strain, but do nor force through sieve. housing shortage. We’re told it’s altruism and concern for homeless and the natural environment, the I may not have as many to give mainly families and elderly in need families? Company website pages infrastructure and the aesthetics, away this year, but please get in of aff ordable housing, and we don’t pose questions from investors eager rather than those greedy wolves in touch if you’d like a healthy seedling. think this current crop of small-to- to get on the same ladder that created grandma’s clothing, who knock on You could be making your own Black averageness is the answer. a millionaire property magnate at our villa doors and off er prices no Having brought up our family on age nineteen - apparently the case one else can compete with. Worcester Sauce before long.