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: Family
Theatre club for children
Are you home-schooling your children? Does your child have a dramatic streaK? Send them to Louise Glossop’s Theatre Club at Abberley Park Hall on Thursday afternoons from 1.30-2.30pm.
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Learn to grow vegies with Hand Over a Hundy
Families in East Christchurch are being challenged to grow their own vegetables as part of the Hand over a Hundy scheme.
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Toolbox parenting course
Rutland Street Church is running a parenting course aimed at parents of teens and tweens in August.
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Garage sale to send residents to Special Olympics
Location: Corner Bristol Street and Berry Street Time: June 29 from 9am Description: A garage sale is being held to raise funds to send eight residents from Independence House in Bristol Street to the Special Olympics. The sale is being … Continue reading
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Young parents organise Big Read
Location: Karanga Mai Young Parents College, KaiapoiLink out: Click here Time: June 21 8:03am (sunrise) to 4.59pm (sunset) Description: The ‘Big Read’ will take place over eight hours from sunrise to sunset. Various reading based activities are planned, inside and … Continue reading
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Western Assn Football celebrates centenary
Western Association Football Club celebrated 100 years of soccer over Queen’s Birthday weekend.
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When Manchester United played in St Albans
Few people would know the story of how footballers Bobby Charlton and George Best played a game at English Park in St Albans in 1967. The night New Zealand played Manchester United is recalled in an article in D Scene.
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Budget supports low income families
The 2013 budget, issued last week by the National Government, features a number of initiatives to support low-income families:
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Sports Chaplaincy Evening
Location: Rutland Street Lounge Time: May 14 from 7 -8.30pm Description: Find out what Sports Chaplaincy is about at a free orientation evening. Sports is a gift from God and can be enjoyed while giving glory to God.“As Christians, sport … Continue reading
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Three days full of football for youngsters
Keen young soccer players have their own holiday programme at ASB Football Park (formerly known as English Park) in Cranford Street later this month.
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Ara Tai Rakena is going places
Ara Tai Rakena speaks six languages and it all started in St Albans. Find out where this has taken the multilingual, local lad in this article in the New Zealand Herald.
Posted in Community, Family, Māori, People
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No 1 Fan newsletter
Find out about learning how to coach, a football festival for girls and women and how to send your old football boots to Africa in the latest edition of No 1 Fan, the newsletter for Mainland Football.
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