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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
Ideas wanted for eastern Christchurch
Share your ideas for the eastern suburbs in Christchurch and see what others have come up with. It’s a bit like the CCC share an idea consultation but this one is run by the community. Click here for Eastern Visions … Continue reading
Posted in The Future, Wider Circles
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Carols in our Park
Location: Packe Street Park community gardens Time: 5:00pm till 6:00pm Description: The annual carol singing session in Packe Street Park is planned for Sunday, December 2. Music will be provided by Heather Mitchell Gladstone, The St Albans Community Choir and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, EVENTS, Packe Street Park
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Ministry of Awesome stirs …
Gapfiller, Greening the Rubble and now Ministry of Awesome, another catalyst making things happen in this injured city has joined the post quake events circuit. It is difficult to pin this one down but it definitely is not office-bound or … Continue reading
Posted in Business, EVENTS, Wider Circles
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Another council pool in danger of permanent closure
Another CCC-owned swimming pool in in danger of permanent closure and this time it is not the Council at fault. CERA wants the Centennial Pool site for a children’s summer playground and won’t allow CCC repairs to go ahead. CERA … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Facilities, Family, Wider Circles
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Edegeware Village Green News
The Village Green group received a gift from Edgeware Supervalue as part of the supermarket’s community involvement and is working with the city council to draw up a memorandum of understanding over the temporary se of the old Edgeware pool … Continue reading
Edgeware Village Green Neighbourhood Celebration
Location: Edgeware Village Green (Trafalgar St / 43a Edgeware Rd – site of former Edgeware Pool)Date: October 30Time: 4.00pm to 6.00pmDescription: Free sausage sizzle, sunflower plants to give away for sunflower growing competition. Also Mary Rose from the City Mission … Continue reading
Posted in Edgeware Village Green and Poolsite, EVENTS, Past
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Village Green Working Bee
Location: Edgeware Village GreenDate: October 27 Description: Planting, weeding, digging, talking, eating, harvesting etc… it’s lots of fun! All day, or just 20 minutes if that is all you have. And if you have garden stuff surplus to requirements send … Continue reading
Edgeware Village as pedestrian-friendly zone
Nick Summerhayes has gone digital with his/her views on what should happen to Edgeware Village, similar to those expressed in recent community consultations. Nick suggests in Stuff Nation, an online outlet for readers of the Press, that the people-only area … Continue reading
Needs of disabled in rebuild overlooked
SARA management committee member and community advocate, Hine Moke is speaking up about the needs of those living with a disability being overlooked in the rebuild.
Posted in Accessibility, Community
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Relocated Community House opening soon
Christchurch Community House lost their Hereford Street premises in February 2011 but are reopening at the end of this month at 113 Tuam Street, right next to the Central Library and Bus Station. Fewer tenants will be in the building … Continue reading
Posted in Voluntary work, Wider Circles
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ReUnite Trust Canterbury launch
Location: PEETO The Multicultural Learning Centre (currently operating from the Riccarton Baptist Church Corner of Peverel and Rattray Streets, Riccarton) Date: November 5 Time: 6pm to 8pm Description: Tim Barnett, who used to be the MP for this area, will … Continue reading
Posted in EVENTS, Uncategorized, Wider Circles
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Chippenham to be restored
In a city where demolitions of older buildings seem to be a daily occurrence comes this news reported in the Press of the planned restoration of Chippenhnam. Built in the 1860s, the two storey brick house has been owned by … Continue reading
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