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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 webspace@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.SARA is also on Facebook. Scroll down to the bottom of this column where there is a portal to St Albans News Facebook page.
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Category Archives: Community
Residents feel needs ignored in sports park expansion
Nearby residents are upset because their concerns seem to be ignored in plans to expand the sports complex at Christchurch Park in Westminster St. The complex will include three greens for a bowling club and bar/restaurant that can cater for … Continue reading
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Pauline Cotter comments on downstream effects
By Cr Pauline Cotter, Innes Ward By now you should have seen the information booklet on options, stages and priorities for the Northern Corrider downstream effects, providing you with the 4 drop in sessions to be held in St Albans … Continue reading
Councillors interrogate the DEMP
At the February 14 Christchurch City Council Meeting councillors had the opportunity to ask questions about the downstream effects management plan (DEMP) dealing with traffic coming off the motorway in 2020. This transcript with timestamps was prepared by Mark Wilson … Continue reading
Full text for letter in a bottle
When the time capsule planted in 1920 behind the foundation stone in the old community centre was opened in September it contained a small brown bottle and a letter inside. The bottle was reluctant to give up its dry contents … Continue reading
Packe St park’s Matariki celebrations postponed
Packe St Park’s Matariki celebration planned for June 17 has been postponed until further notice. The park’s co-ordinator says that this is because of the weather. We could probably do with a few windy warm nor’westers to dry out soggy … Continue reading
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Help raise funds for the St Albans Pool
Put those neurons and magpie collection of knowledge to good use and form (or join) a team at Bailies on Monday.
Antony Wright’s eulogy for Bill Sykes
(Delivered at Botany Bill’s funeral in Christchurch on January 9, 2018) Bill’s botanical roots started very early. He was born in the County of Suffolk in East Anglia and grew up in the village of Wyverstone. We have his … Continue reading
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Rehuā marae hosting Carols at the Pā
Rehua marae is hosting carols at the pā again this year on December 1, from 5-8pm at 79 Springfield Rd. Take a picnic, a blanket, the whanau and enjoy. It’s one of the highlights of the year in St Albans.
Posted in Children, Community, EVENTS, Māori, Rehua Marae
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Papanui Innes community board news
The Papanui Innes community board is now publishing its own monthly online newsletter. You can read the latest issue here.
Handful of places offer early voting
Few places have been authorised to offer advanced voting and none of them is in St Albans. The closest place to vote early in the Christchurch Central electorate is at the Central Library in Peterborough St, which you can do … Continue reading
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Packe St park planning for the future
The Packe St Park and Community Garden will be doing a bit of strategic planning at the AGM, so if you are interested in the future of the 21 year old community garden, attend the meeting which is being held … Continue reading
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Council’s new multicultural strategy to help residents thrive
Did you know that nearly a quarter of Christchurch citizens were born overseas? The city council is recognising the diverse makeup of the city with a strategy to make everyone feel welcome and as Jimmy Chen says “thrive” in the … Continue reading
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