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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
Category Archives: Community
Edgeware Village Master Plan available for comment
The Edgeware Village Master Plan is now available for public comment.
Our Changing City – various speakers
The WEA is running a series of lectures on the topic of Our Changing City from 1.30 – 2.30pm on Wednesday afternoons for five weeks at 59 Gloucester Street. Entry by gold coin. The talks began on February 13 and … Continue reading
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Art classes after school
Drawing skills using dye, pastels, charcoal and paint are being taught in after school art classes at St Albans Primary School.
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Shirley International Playgroup
A playgroup for mothers and children aged under five from refugee and migrant backgrounds starts back Friday, February 8.
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Book discussion group for men
The Book Discussion Group is holding an informal meeting at the Brewery in Woolston on the evening of February 12 to set help an all-mens book discussion group.
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St Albans Community Discussion
Location: Mairehau Library, 42 Kensington Ave, St Albans Time: 7-8pm on February 12 Description: Topics on the agenda for discussion include the temporary workers accommodation on the Orion site, problems caused by built up footpaths, changing traffic flows in the … Continue reading
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Packe St Park Gardens AGM
Location: 115 Packe Street Time: 7:30 pm on March 26Description: Claire Phillips, Strengthening Communities Advisor from Christchurch City Council is the guest speaker at the AGM of the Friends of Packe Street Park and Community Gardens. Shared supper afterwards. *Everybody … Continue reading
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Packe St Park newsletter 25
The 25th newsletter of the Friends of Packe Street Park and community garden is being distributed. A copy of most of it appears on the next page.
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Church windows on Trade Me
Stained glass windows made in the 1930s for the church in Edgeware Road are up for sale on Trade Me with a total asking price of nearly $100,000. The windows were made in 1937 by Bradley Brothers for the Wesleyan … Continue reading
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Christchurch Combined Residents Association AGM
Location: Shirley Primary School, Shirley Road Time: 7:30pm on February 12 Agenda Welcome from Chair Apologies Election of Officers Minutes from previous AGM Business arising Report Financial Report Enquiries to President Ralph Ross phone 385 5110 or email the Secretary
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Auckland gobbles Edgeware Village plan
Is Auckland grabbing the Edgeware Village revamp plan for its waterfront redesign? Well if this screenshot of Auckland newspaper The Aucklander is anything to go by. The article might still be there under the heading Council Bodies Tussle Over Waterfront … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Water, Wider Circles
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St Albans boundaries
We received a query recently from someone in Mairehau about SARA or St Albans boundaries which raised a very good question. This linked map shows St Albans boundaries. The original St Albans suburb included land as far as Rossall Street, … Continue reading
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