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: Community
Fun football at St Albans School
Mainland Football offers 5-10 year olds more touches of the ball, more skills and more confidence. The programme runs after school on Mondays from 3pm to 4.15pm on the St Albans School field. Sessions begin on July 23 and the … Continue reading
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Burns Song Contest 2012
If you have a hankering to listen to Scottish Music make your way to the Scottish Society Hall in Edgeware Road at 9am on the morning of September 1 and bring a gold coin with you to pay at the … Continue reading
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Modelling a new kind of citizenship
A new way of thinking about citizenship will be outlined during a talk by author Dr Bronwyn Hayward at the WEA in late August.Rethinking Citizenship From the ecological footprint to the social handprint is the title of the talk at … Continue reading
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TEDxEQChCh 2012: Uncontained
Leading global and local thinkers will take to the stage of the Aurora Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday, September 1 for a day of inspiration as part of TEDxEQChCh 2012. Rebuilding after the earthquakes is a key theme … Continue reading
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Averill Street and Petrie Street works
If you drive down Averill Street or Petrie Street in Richmond, the wastewater pipeline repairs starting July 19 may alter your journey. Part of the road and sections of footpath will be closed. Scirt says the work will finish some … Continue reading
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The Mairehau
If you live on the northern fringes of St Albans you might be interested in what is going on in Mairehau. Here is the latest edition of the Neighbourhood Trust community newsletter, which is part of the St Albans Baptist … Continue reading
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WEA Term 3 programme
The Christchurch WEA runs reasonably-priced, adult education courses, mostly at its premises in Gloucester Street, and has done so for many years.Download the programme for Term 3 here: WEA Term3 Programme. Most classes resume from July 23.
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Supporting Tamariki to Learn Waiata
This FREE course will provide an introduction to waiata for children. The aim of the course is to provide parents with the tools necessary to start introducing appropriate Māori waiata in to the home environment whilst supporting intergenerational transmission of … Continue reading
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Delta Trust holding Community Market Day
North Avon Baptist Delta Trust is holding a community market day on July 7 from 10am to 12 noon at 101-105 North Avon Road. If you have things you want to sell items, hire a table inside for $10. Set-up time … Continue reading
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New Attraction For St Albans
If you see people walking around in circle in St Albans, they’ve probably just visited the suburb’s latest attraction: a labyrinth. Launched on June 23 with a candlelit walk and a waiata, the labyrinth is a key feature of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Edgeware Village Green and Poolsite, News
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Christchurch Youth Market
A new weekly youth market offering free stalls for youth stallholders aged 24 years and under will operate from mid August. Applications are now open for those sites on a casual or longer term basis. Other stallholders 25 years or … Continue reading
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FREE Korfball School Holiday Programme
Christchurch intermediate and secondary school aged children can have a go at a new sport this holidays when Westminster Sports and Korfball Canterbury offer a korfball themed school holiday programme at Mairehau High School from 9-12 July. Chief executive of … Continue reading
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