A Project Port Lyttelton initiative in association with The Akaroa Mail To contact the Lyttelton News team - Telephone (03) 328 9260 or email [email protected] website www.lyttelton.net.nz Whakarauika o Whakaraupo Issue 28 - Friday February 9 2007 In brief Countdown to Street Party By Wendy Everingham Fitness classes After months of planning the This year Christchurch City Council is increasing Lyttelton Summer Street Party is the number of fitness classes at Lyttelton getting ready for its third Recreation Centre. A range of classes to suit appearance on Sunday February different tastes and help the community be more 25, 10am to 6pm. The scene is set active will be on offer. It is well publicised that as for a great day. London Street a nation we are not sufficiently active and that as will appear as last year. a minimum one should be physically active for All musical performances will 30 minutes a day. Circuit classes continue at be at the main stage near the 6.15 pm on Wednesday nights - this is a class library. The programme begins with a wide range of stations including bikes, with Karma Suits Ya, who many resistance, cardio and boxing. Suitable for all of you will know from levels of fitness. A new 7 week Pilates course performances at the Farmers for beginners is starting on Thursday nights at Market or Satchmo’s. Not 6.pm beginning on February 22. Call the centre Romeo, Al Park, pictured, Gavin on 941 5656 to register your place. At 9.15am Buxton, Carmel Courtney plus Friday mornings there is a Bums, Abs ‘n’ Thighs many others will follow them. class for the mothers. The feature band this year is Mundi, well known in the Energy surveys harbour with a recent Thank you to everyone who handed out forms performance at the Harbour and those that completed them. If your house Light. They specialise in a rich was missed and you are interested to participate fusion of original jazz and world a form can be downloaded from music. Keep an eye out for a www.lyttelton.net.nz. Completed forms can be couple of new bands, Woolley returned to the Lyttelton Visitor Centre 34 Fish, some local lads and Lava London Street. from Diamond Harbour. After the success of the PPL website Lyttelton Idol competition last Dave McNally has given the PPL website a fresh year L.J.Hooker is sponsoring look. All of our projects are now on-line. Take a the event this year. Starting at look and see what’s happening. 5.15pm keep an eye out for Vicki www.lyttelton.net.nz Have you got some Tahau Paton and her team who’ll be running this event. Plunket have great snacks for everyone up there. Be community information that should be added? Any budding artists can register at Vicki’s office prior to treated to the Sunshine Band and a Samba band during the Contact us via the website or call the PPL office the event or visit the stage manager on the day. afternoon. 328 9243. Your chance to win a gift voucher from Real Groovy. For something completely different, “The Soundgarden” Buskers galore. Great acts including the Twisty Twinz will be up in the Rose Garden. Experimental, dub and Art walks and Doc Drumheller with his puppet and magic show. electro music from 10am to 1pm. Do you have a favorite nook or cranny where a Performances outside the Empire Hotel, from 11-4pm. With the help of three students from CPIT we have community art work could be placed? Are you Interesting art, craft and food stalls open all day. created a Lyttelton Passport. Our festival fliers are the interested to be commissioned for a piece of There is a special Lyttelton artist’s area near the Harbour passport. Collect from the Lyttelton Visitor Centre or cut work? I am exploring the idea of developing a Light. See work from Jennifer Kennex, Alex Hallatt, out of the local paper just prior to the festival. Fliers can project brief for an art inspired walk in Lyttelton Rebecca Lee, Paula Smulders and Ken Fairs. More work is also be collected on the day from the information table by along an existing walking route. If this idea on display at the Lyttelton Art Gallery. the library. excites you please contact Wendy Everingham A special exhibition features local artists during the Complete five of the ten activities on the passport and 328 8359 [email protected]. festival. be in the draw for some great prizes. Ten lucky winners Tennis coaching This year the children’s activities are at Lyttelton Main drawn from 2.30 onwards. School in Oxford St. A Kidz zone operates all day. Several Check out the web site www.lyttelton.net.nz for more A one month trial course for Beginners 9 – 12 puppet shows in the hall, the popular Titanic slide plus information or contact Wendy Everingham 328 8359. years starting 14 February, on Wednesdays, bouncy castle are there plus face painting, balloon This is a zero waste event. We’d like to be able to 7.30 – 8.30 pm at Lyttelton Tennis Club Courts, twisting, an animal farm and lots more. compost or recycle all waste from the festival. Cressy Tce. Cost is $25 for one month. For enquiries/registration phone Shonagh ph 328 8577 Climate change A series of Tuesday night seminars on climate change will be held at the Canterbury WEA in Garden association with Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch starting March 6. Talks run from 5.30-7pm and cost $15. club creates March 6: Climate Change: an introduction - Alistair McKerchar, NIWA seasonal March 13: CarboNZero - Ann Smith / Stewart McKenzie, Sustainable Business Group, Landcare Research sensation March20: Climate Change and International “Autumn Splendour” takes Development - Jonathan Fletcher, National form under the skilful hands Director, Christian World Service of the Lyttelton Garden Club March27: Climate Change, Transport Matters— members. Prof Dave Kelly / Andrew Macbeth, Traffic When completed it will Engineer and Transport Planner form part of the Canterbury April 3: The current state of climate change Garden Clubs’ display policy - how much talk? How much action? - “Flowers in Portrait” at the Russel Norman, Co-Leader, Green Party Robert McDougall Gallery in All welcome! the Festival of Flowers. Free tea and coffee from 5pm. For further Libraries and Service information or to enrol phone the WEA on 366 Centres have programmes for 0285, call into 59 Gloucester Street, or look at the whole event. our web-site: cwea.cyberplace.org.nz Lyttelton - portal to Canterbury’s historic past, a vibrant sustainable community, creating a living future. 2 - Lyttelton News -Friday February 9 2007 Indigenous Issues – Bokashi kits Workshop Opportunity available in By Wendy Everingham In May 2006 I became a New Zealand citizen. There wasn’t much to it really. Sign a few papers and attend Lyttelton a ceremony in Christchurch. For such a momentous occasion there was little information and apart from This strange word “bokashi” seems to agreeing to obey New Zealand law and a few other be appearing more frequently. As you bits and pieces that was all there was to it. walk past the Lyttelton Service Centre the I was surprised there was no information provided first thing you see is a heap of buckets about the history of New Zealand, my responsibilities and “Bokashi”. as a new comer to the Treaty of Waitangi or basic Julie and Debbie the counter staff are cultural knowledge on how to relate to Maori. full of useful information on the topic. As 2006 progressed my need to know more about Julie hands me “A guide to EM Bokashi how to relate to Maori grew. Composting”. “It’s all in there”, she says. Helping to organise a conference in Christchurch The booklet describes Bokashi as a and being instructed to organise the Mihi threw me in Japanese term that means “fermented the deep end. organic matter”. Firstly what was such a thing and how did I It’s a way to compost food scraps at actually make contact with people so I could organise your home without the material becoming this? Gradually with the help of some friends and putrid. many awkward moments I found out what to do and You place organic leftovers in the how to do it. A visit to the Runaka meeting in bucket and add bokashi granules. The Harewood, some special help from local community bokashi ferments the organic matter and board member Dawn Kottier and from then on after a short period the fermented product everything seemed sorted. Interestingly speaking to can be dug into your garden and not only more New Zealanders about this experience, others have you saved some space in the local indicated that they didn’t have a clue how to do any landfill you have enriched your garden of this either. and have created another by product that Purely by chance I happened to stumble upon a is useful for fertilizing the garden and workshop in late December 2006 that helped enlighten reducing odours in drains, toilets and me further. The workshop run by Network Waitangi septic tanks. Otautahi was particularly helpful. Basic Maori words Julie informs me “Many local residents that appeared to be well understood by New are purchasing the kit starter sets”. Zealanders were explained properly. Cultural Apparently it’s not just residents using differences were highlighted and many things about the bokashi granules. The Volcano and the history/law of New Zealand and the Treaty of Freemans have joined the Project Port Waitangi were identified.