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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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Company for elderly
Presbyterian Support is behind a new scheme to provide a sense of community for elderly in St Albans who may have been displaced by the earthquakes.
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Christchurch cheerleader
Winston Peters describes her as Ms Invisible but Central Christchurch MP Nicky Wagner sees herself as a pragmatist and a cheerleader for Christchurch. Find out more about the National MP who represents this area in this recent Press article.
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Small structures; no consent required
Sick of waiting for consents for building? Think small, really really small and check out the ideas these students came up with at a workshop in May. Designs include a canvas community centre (something for the residents’ association?), tiny baches … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
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News from Christchurch Central MP
Find out what Central Christchurch MP, Nicky Wagner has been up to recently by reading her newsletter. She wasn’t at the official launch of the St Albans transitional community centre but did send a representative.
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Use suffrage day to demand respect for democracy
A group of local people using Suffrage Day to protest the undermining of democracy in Christchurch will gather at the Bridge of Remembrance on Wednesday, September 19 at 5.30pm wearing green, white and purple. Speakers have been organised and a … Continue reading
Posted in Community, EVENTS, Past, Wider Circles
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St Albans School Newsletter online
Lots of news and photos from one of our local schools in their September 13 newsletter. Check out the holiday activities for children.
Posted in Children, Education, St Albans School
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No tinkering with St Albans Primary School
There aren’t many schools operating in the St Albans area, despite a population of 60,000+ but at least none of the schools in the area will close or merge as part of the Government’s complete reconfiguring of the Christchurch education … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Community, Education, St Albans School, Wider Circles
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Alternative to paying rates
Is local government being supported by a system that should be relegated to the past? Is there something better suited to our 21st century democracy and educated ratepayers? A rateypayers’ group from the Waimakariri District has come up with an … Continue reading
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Purchas St reconstruction begins
Work on replacing drains and pipes in Purchas Street begins on September 17 and is expected to take four months to complete. The work on the Madras to Barbadoes St section of Purchas St, replacing pipes and constructing new kerbs … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Roading
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Artworks to remember redzone suburbs
Cancern is commissioning local artist, Bryan L’Estrange and a team to produce a mural to commemorate areas of the city that are being vacated and demolished. And they want your ideas and money to help make this a reality.
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Eco-city of the future
Christchurch is a biodiversity hotspot and the earthquakes provide the opportunity to turn the city into an an imaginative and vibrant eco-city. Come along to a public talk being given by Colin Meurk to the North Canterbury Branch of Forest … Continue reading
Posted in EVENTS, Past, Sustainability, Wider Circles
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Repairs for eastside of St Albans
IF you are living and driving in the streets around Champion and Geraldine Streets you will only be too well aware of the underground work repairing wastewater pipes following the earthquakes.
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