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This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.Translations
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Community Commemorations – The River of Flowers
Kia ora koutou, This wonderful collaborative project by Healthy Christchurch with a new partner Avon-Otakaro Network ( AvON ) has created local opportunities to commemorate on Wednesday 22 February 2012. We now have more than six hosting sites now confirmed … Continue reading
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Communities learn the good life can be a killer
Developers in the last half-century called it progress when they built homes and shopping malls far from city centers throughout the country, sounding the death knell for many downtowns. But now an alarmed cadre of public health experts say these … Continue reading
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Janine Starks looks at the various shades of grey in a green-blue zoning conundrum and sees nothing but red-tape and trouble
Green-blue trapped This is a really tough one. The ability to sell a home on green-blue land (Technical Category 3 or ‘TC3’) could be very difficult. It all hinges on the actions of a number of groups of professionals; EQC, … Continue reading
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Financial support available
If you live in Christchurch City and are struggling financially to cover necessary costs which are related to the earthquake, we suggest you apply for financial support through the Mayor’s Welfare Earthquake Relief Fund. Follow the link for further information … Continue reading
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Green Zone categories – NB most of St Albans is Blue or TC3
(4th November 2011) Three new categories for residential foundation design required for repairing and rebuilding homes in Canterbury following the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 was announced on Friday 28th October 2011. The full media release can be read here http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-foundationdesign-categories-canterbury. … Continue reading
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CanCERN – TC3 update
TC3 INFORMATION – A small group met with the CERA Communications Team this week to discuss TC3 information needs. The overriding sentiment was that residents expect CERA to pull together all of the information and make sense of it in … Continue reading
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UC Public Earthquake Lecture Series
If you missed the 2011 Earthquake Lecture series, you can view the lectures http://www.communityed.canterbury.ac.nz/earthquake_lectures.php
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PechaKucha Night Christchurch 13
Global Cities Week Edition: cycle-powered PechaKucha presented in association with Gap Filler Sunday 26 February 2012 8.20pm Corner of Manchester and Dundas St (former Cycle Trading/PrintStop site) Entry by koha. Bring your own seating and cushion, and dress warmly. Keep … Continue reading
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Thrasing out how Christchurch can rebuild on its soft land (TC3) – public feedback session at the Knox Centre in Christchurch on Monday 13th February at 7.30pm.
Contributor: Voxy News Engine Thursday, 9 February, 2012 More than 50 structural engineers, geotech experts and architects will thrash out how Christchurch can rebuild on its soft land at an international workshop next Monday. The event has been organised by the … Continue reading
St Matthews Brownies Group
Are you a girl aged between 7 and 9 years? Do you enjoy being creative and having fun? At Girl Guides we like to do this and more! St Matthew’s Brownies are looking for girls who like to be challenged … Continue reading
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Gap Filler pedal powered movies
As the team is busily scrambling to tweak the last few bugs out of the system, Gap Filler are very proud to announce their upcoming free CYCLE-POWERED CINEMA, with a grand opening at sundown on Thursday 9 February on the … Continue reading
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Edgeware Village Green – Come join in a special symbolic experience
… this SATURDAY, 11 FEBRUARY, 2 – 3PM Walk the Brick Labyrinth .. pose a question, find an answer, join us as we reclaim our community. And if you can spare a bag of soil, please bring it down. 48 Trafalgar … Continue reading
