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: Earthquake Information
Use EQC land cash settlement wisely
If you receive a cash settlement for land damage make sure you use it to remediate the land as EQC has the power to cancel cover if you don’t and it could affect future insurance with private providers.
Posted in Earthquake Information, Uncategorized
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Remembering 22 February 2011
When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes your greatest treasure. Anon quote on Skylight website (a source of useful coping resources) Several events are planned around the city to remember the devastating earthquake in February 2011 at … Continue reading
Posted in Earthquake Information, EVENTS, Past
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Red Cross quake grants for school children
Red Cross has set up a fund to help children deal with the aftermath of the earthquakes.
Posted in Children, Earthquake Information
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Earthquake support for whanau
He Oranga Pounamu Project leader Sharon Hillier and Alice Kemp are co-ordinating an earthquake support service for local whanau.
Quake awards presented
A number of organisations and individuals with a St Albans connection have been recognised in the second and final quake awards presented on December 18. Emma Twaddell from the St Albans Residents’ Association, Helen Ross from the Edgeware Village Group … Continue reading
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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.
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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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Pre 1976 units face uncertain future
Apartments and other multiple unit buildings built before 1976 may face higher insurance costs, costly upgrades and possibly demolition as local councils attempt to make buildings more earthquake resilient (building code compliant).
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CanCERN calls for new EQC head
Prominent Christchurch residents group CanCERN is so frustrated with the performance of the Earthquake Commission it has asked the board of the EQC to remove the current Chief Executive.
Posted in CanCERN, Earthquake Information
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Free financial advice extended to green zoners
Struggling to cope financially after the earthquakes? Financial advice offered to red zoners has now been extended to those in the green zone coping with decisions regarding moving, repairs etc. The Commission for Retirement and Financial Literacy has also produced … Continue reading
Posted in Earthquake Information, TC3 Land, Uncategorized
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SARA supports campaign to fix EQC
Shoddy service, obstructive access to information and bumbling delivery are spurs to the creation of a citizens’ campaign to fix problems caused by EQC. The Residents EQC Action Campaign (REAC) is a public campaign to sort out EQC, not only … Continue reading
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Spring River Festival celebrates Avon River
The inaugural Spring River Festival being organised for the weekend of October 20 and 21 celebrates the eastern end of the Avon River with bus trips, walks, picnics and talks. The Spring River Festival also includes science events, such as … Continue reading
Posted in CanCERN, EVENTS, Packe Street Park, The Future
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