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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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Get growing for edible garden awards
Shirley Papanui Community Board is piloting the edible garden awards so get growing over summer and your vegetable patch or fruit trees could earn you an award. The competition, organised in conjunction with the Canterbury Horticultural Society, is aimed particularly … Continue reading
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You can have $50 but not $40
The Westpac ATM in Edgeware Village has lots of $50 notes to dispense and is a bit choosy about when it will cough up $20 notes. I tried to withdraw $40 on Thursday – two $20 notes – but the … Continue reading
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Communities get more say on alcohol
Communities will get more say on what hours pubs are open and who can sell liquor in their areas when local alcohol policies are implemented.
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Govt creates another quake info site
CERA and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment have combined forces to produce information to assist Christchurch landowners, in the form of this website.
Posted in Earthquake Information
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CERA compiles booklet for TC3 homeowners
CERA has produced a booklet aimed at homeowners whose land has been zoned TC3 and is making it available online. The TC3 Residential Rebuild booklet provides answers to commonly asked questions about the rebuild. The information has been compiled from … Continue reading
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CBD red zone virtual tours
You can now take a virtual tour of the inner city red zone from the comfort of your computer. The images were taken in the first half of 2012 so some buildings have already been demolished. Murray Quartly, who runs … Continue reading
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Help repair St Albans School Pool
Volunteers are urgently needed to help repair the St Albans Primary School Pool over the Christmas break. The school particularly wants to hear from electricians, plumbers, builders and bricklayers. Even if you don’t have a skilled trade the school is … Continue reading
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School students give presents to homeless
The Young Vinnies Team at Our Lady of Fatima School in Innes Road will be handing out packs of goodies to homeless or disadvantaged people in Cranmer Square on Sunday December 16.
Posted in Children, Community, Wider Circles
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CanCERN plan to reuse red zone housing materials
Time: 12:00pm-1pm on February 5. Location: Aoraki Room at Community and Public Health (310 Manchester Street) Description: What a waste all the residential red zone demolition is. Communities and organisations could be making use of all those materials being trucked … Continue reading
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Learn with the WEA
The Workers Educational Association programme always offers a great variety of adult education classes at low cost during mornings, afternoons, evenings and weekends. Their programme for Term 1 is now available. Check out one off lectures and put them in … Continue reading
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Shirley Papanui Community Board Meeting
Location: Shirley Papanui Service Centre Time: 4pm on December 17 Link out: Click hereDescription: The Shirley Papanui Community Board is expected to endorse the draft Edgeware Master Plan at its next meeting. Visit the linked website and scroll down till … Continue reading
Champion Street being resealed
Wastewater repairs have finished on Champion Street and the section between Bealey Avenue and Gresford Street will be sealed in the week beginning December 15. SCIRT takes a three week break over the Christmas holiday period.
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