HANMER SPRINGS VILLAGE NEWS the pinkie Award Winning April 13th, 2021 FREE If you are thinking of buying, selling or renting, call your local Harcourts Hanmer Springs Ofice today! 03 315 7084 [email protected] Your home for local property Shop 3, 12a Conical Hill Road Four Seasons Realty 2017 Ltd | Licensed Agent REAA 2008 Four Seasons Realty Family Violence – It’s Not OK – get help on 0800 456 450 Women’s Refuge 0800 REFUGE (733 843) For emergencies ring 111, North Canterbury Police 105 Lifeline 0800 543 354, Youthline 0800 376 633 or text HELP (4357) for free, 24/7, confidenRal support . Hanmer 0274 337 985 ! Christchurch, Hanmer Springs, Kaikoura, Peter Moody Cheviot, Waiau, Rotherham, Waikari, Waipara Phone 021 927 037 Amberley, Rangiora, Greta Valley, Culverden E: [email protected] For all your flooring needs. [email protected] 59 Jacks Pass Rd, Hanmer Springs 03 315 7503 [email protected] Clinic Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-12:30pm & 2:00pm-4:30pm VISITING PROFESSIONALS • Plunket – Claire – second Monday of every month No more checking the spam folder. • Dietician 16th April • AudioloGist 16th June From now on each week we will HSCT Flu Clinics – Over 65s only at the moment! send you a reminder to click on We have appointment slots available on Monday 19th April and h\p://thepinkie.co.nz/ Tuesday 20th April. Please call the medical centre on 315 7503 for a time. We ask that you come to the back carpark for your vaccine. NZ COVID Tracer app – Scan upon arrival CoVer: Autumn is here (library) It’s critical we continue to use the NZ COVID Tracer app to Photos this issue Richard Tapper, keep track of where we’ve been to improve our chances of quickly stopping the spread of COVID-19. historical archives, HDC We encourage everyone to keep scanning and to turn on Bluetooth tracing. Check that you have Bluetooth tracing enabled on the dashboard of the NZ COVID Tracer app. If you don’t, please turn it on. Scanning QR codes allow us to create a private record of the places we’ve been, while Bluetooth creates an anonymised record of the people we’ve been near. Both are important for If You Want to HaVe contact tracing. We all need to make using the app part of our daily routines Something included in because it helps contact tracing go faster when it’s needed and allows people to be notified quickly if they are exposed to COVID-19. The app is one of the most effective tools in our The Pinkie toolkit. The more we use it, the safer we’ll all be. 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Deadline for material including advertising is 5 • Rinse the soap off pm Sunday • Dry your hands well Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily .…………………………………………………………… Casual Patients those of the editor or publisher Are you still a casual patient with us? Have you considered being a registered patient with us? It is a lot cheaper to see the doctor as a registered patient. Come in to see us if you would like an enrolment form to register with the Hanmer Springs The Pinkie is published by Medical Centre now. Hanmer Springs Village News Ltd Our after-hours phone is always answered by a registered nurse who will assess your needs, offer advice or, if required, arrange immediate assistance Richard Tapper from our on-call clinician. It can take several minutes to answer the phone so please be patient and hold, and follow the voice prompts carefully [email protected] IN AN EMERGENCY DIAL 111 19.Georges Simenon created which fictional detective? TTRRIIVVIIAA 20.Which British monarch’s reign saw American independence? 21.Which metal is an alloy of iron and carbon? 22.Author Peter Benchley wrote a novel which became a series of very popular films. What was the novel? 23.The berries of which tree are used to flavour gin? 24.What name is given to the period of fasting that 1. Sicily and Cyprus are located in which body of precedes Easter? water? 25.Which musical centres around the character of 2. Havana is the capital of which Caribbean Sally Bowles? island? 26.Jacob Marley is a character in which Dickens 3. Which of Handel’s oratorios contains the novel? Hallelujah chorus? 27.Which Tennyson poem begins with the line, 4. Who is Charlie Brown’s blanket carrying friend? “Come Into the garden..” 5. Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by a set 28.Which surrealist painter painted ‘The Persistence of scales? of Memory’? 6. What colour were the tall humanoids in 29.Who played Carrie in Sex and The City? ‘Avatar’? 30.Notorious gangster Al Capone was jailed for 7. Who wrote ‘The Hitch-Hikers Guide to which crime in1931? the Galaxy’? 31.What did Colonel Thomas Blood famously steal 8. The 1968 film ‘Barbarella’ featured which in 1671? famous actress? 32.What was Mel B’s Spice Girl nickname? 9. What is the name of the eastern Mediterranean pastry that is used to make strudel? 33.What is the modern equivalent of ‘ten bob’? 10.Which French royal house is also the name of 34.What is the name given to a speculative American whiskey? opening move in chess? 11.Which author wrote Les Miserables? 35.What lasagne-loving ginger cat is friends with the dog Odie? 12.What is the French word for snail? 13.What was the name of Popeye’s girlfriend? 14.How many points is the red ball worth if you are playing snooker? 15.What was the nickname of the jazz pianist Antoine Domino? 16.Which cup was sought by King Arthur’s knights? 17.What is the chess term for a situation of deadlock? 18.What is the official language of the Central American nation of Belize? Hanmer Springs Bowls Easter Raffle results: When Contac+ng The Pinkie Easter Raffle winner Khrys Radcliffe, second Renee Green Just a Couple of requests for when people and third Di Hone. The raffle raised over $1000 towards the are emailing the Pinkie. new bowling green. The Hanmer Springs Bowling Club would like to thank our sponsors: Cheltenham House, Alpine Chinese Restaurant, Hanmer Springs When we send out the weekly notifications to go Animal Park, Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools & Spa, A Maze in to the link for the current Pinkie, we are forced to Golf. send them from a variety of different emails, and thank you to all our supporters who purchased tickets to make this raffle an amazing success. otherwise we have the old problem of Xtra bouncing them as spam because there are almost 800 people who subscribe this way. If you hit the reply button the response goes to the email from which we sent the Pinkie or it is lumped together with the response from a dozen other people who have done the same thing, so in many instances we miss your email. If you hit REPLY there is a chance we won’t pick it up straight away, if at all.Can you please send correspondence to [email protected] This ensures that we get your email. The Trans Tasman Bubble - What’s Email Slip Ups In it For Hanmer Springs We await the (barring accidents) introduction of the Apologies to those few people who didn’t get trans-Tasman bubble and wonder whether we will see any great emailed the link this week. Xtra told us to set up increase in tourist numbers within the town. the website and send the links out rather than We paged a few tourism-accented businesses to see what their trying to email the pdf version. This would solve reaction was and we can say that the response we got was quite our email problems, they said. underwhelmingly different to those displayed by Queenstown’s mayor and business people. This was probably due to the fact that They are not as good as their word - to follow up businesses in Hanmer mainly report very little if any downturn with a they have now started bouncing the link emails lack of foreign visitors. as spam and we note that about a dozen didn’t Speaking on behalf of the Accommodation Providers go through because they were to Xtra email ad- Association in Hanmer, Shane Cundy said, “Accommodation dresses. Sorry, but be assured the new week’s businesses in our village have had varied occupancies since Pinkie is always up there by lockdown (some up, some down, depending on reliance on internationals). Luckily for Hanmer Springs overall as an Tuesday, and that we are working on trying to average, we only rely on 20% internationals, thankfully get Xtra to rectify the problem. We are also domestics have taken up this slack for most businesses.