Connect with St Albans
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
Category Archives: Greenspace
Garden City 2.0 – a new project
The Avon-Otakaro Network (AvON) would like to introduce you to a new project initiated by the Canterbury Community Gardens Association (CCGA): Garden City 2.0 The CCGA wants to hear from people or groups interested or involved in community gardening and … Continue reading
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Avon-Otakaro Network (AvON) Statement on Gerry Brownlee’s suggestion of a “less bendy” Avon River
Statement from the Avon-Otakaro Network (AvON) 5 June 2012 Statement on Gerry Brownlee’s suggestion of a “less bendy” Avon River AvON welcomes Gerry Brownlee’s comment that decisions on future recreational uses of red zone land are for the wider community … Continue reading
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Places of Tranquility
Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahiatu, Bula vinaka, Talofa ni, Halo ola keta , Mauri, Namaste, Nǐ hǎo, Ahn nyeong ha se yo, Konnichi wa, Salaam Alekum, Ciào, Hola, Rohzj bahsh, Assaalmu Alaykum… Imagine the … Continue reading
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a vision for the Avon River red zone
Avon-Otakaro Network (AvON) a vision for the Avon River red zone Welcome to our vision, changing Christchurch’s Avon River red zone from a place of despair and tragedy to a land of beauty and joy. AvON wants to make the … Continue reading
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St Albans Hill? Maybe the future St Albans could be a ski resort?
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HOW CHRISTCHURCH BECAME THE GARDEN CITY – Diana Madgin
Garden-making was an important institution from the earliest days of settler colonisation in Christchurch. It wasn’t until more than half a century later, however, that we became known as the Garden City of the Dominion. But long before the Canterbury … Continue reading
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