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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
Dino-Sauna for St Albans?
Get hot and sweaty in St Albans. Not yet, but it could happen if someone approaches Gap Filler and offers to host the Dino-Sauna on a vacant section.
Light party alternative to Halloween
Instead of a fireworks event on November 5 this year, The Neighbourhood Trust, which operates out of the St Albans Baptist Church in McFaddens Road, is organising an early evening Light Party as an alternative to Halloween on Wednesday, October … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Churches, Community, EVENTS, Family, St Albans Neighbourhood Trust
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Local hero commends St Albans community spirit
Lucas Lormans rescued a neighbour from a house fire recently and commented on the community spirit in St Albans in a Press Reader Report on September 26. “We do look out for each other in Christchurch – this sense has … Continue reading
Edgeware Village businesses get funding
The Edgeware business precinct is one of 14 business precincts in Christchurch which will share a $!40,000 grant for small businesses. The grant would be used for marketing and promoting about 14 business precincts and would help small to medium … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community
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Communities not wanted in centre?
St Albans community groups are welcome to use the transitional St Albans centre for a couple of hours every now and then but they won’t be able to “settle” in the centre or build their communities from there. And some … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Community Centre (transitional), SARA
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St Paul’s School may merge
St Pauls School of Dallington, currently based on a a former alternative school site in Champion Street, may merge with Our Lady of Fatima School in Mairehau, according to this newspaper story
Posted in Children, Churches, Uncategorized, Wider Circles
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Could Greece or Ireland happen here?
And what would we do if it did. Jane Kelsey, a well known social and political commentator will address this topic during the Lincoln Efford Memorial Lecture at the WEA’s Gloucester Street premises on October 23.
Posted in Adult, Education, EVENTS, Wider Circles
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WEA classes Term 4
The WEA has issued its Term 4 programme with a mix of some golden oldies and some topical new subjects to get your teeth into.
Posted in Adult, Community, Education, Wider Circles
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Council runs school holiday programmes
The city council will be running recreational programmes at venues in Bromley and Linwood and craft or computer-based activities at the Upper Riccarton and New Brighton Libraries during the October School holidays.
Posted in Children, Wider Circles
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Community Board Meeting
The next meeting of the Shirley-Papanui Community Board will be on September 19 at 4pm. Meetings are held at the Papanui Service Centre and are open to the public.
Company for elderly
Presbyterian Support is behind a new scheme to provide a sense of community for elderly in St Albans who may have been displaced by the earthquakes.
Posted in Community, Older people
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Use suffrage day to demand respect for democracy
A group of local people using Suffrage Day to protest the undermining of democracy in Christchurch will gather at the Bridge of Remembrance on Wednesday, September 19 at 5.30pm wearing green, white and purple. Speakers have been organised and a … Continue reading
Posted in Community, EVENTS, Past, Wider Circles
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