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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
A ray of giving
Ray White Next Step on Innes Road, in association with Rotary, has distributed 200 Christmas gifts to families who cannot afford Christmas.
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Edgeware master plan adopted
Christchurch City Council has adopted the master plan to support the recovery of Edgeware Village.
Carol singing in the rain
Doug Lamb from St Albans Choir and Peggy Kelly report on the Carol singing at Packe Street Park, which got rained on but not rained out. Scroll down or view next page for Peggy’s report. The choir were singing the … Continue reading
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Carols at the Pā
Location: Rehua Marae, Springfield Road Time: December 6 6pm-8.45pm Description: Join the whānau at Rehua Marae for a celebration of Christmas! Non-stop entertainment including bands – Mana Whānau, Merchants of Flow and many others, individual and group artists, kapahaka and … Continue reading
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St Albans swim club history helps fund new pool
Sales of the recently launched St Albans Swimming Club and Edgeware Pool history will go towards installing a new pool in the area, writer Val Somerville says. She outlined how the story came to be told at the launch at … Continue reading
Community fun afternoon
Location: St Albans Uniting Parish, Cnr Knowles Street and Nancy Avenue Time: December 6 @ 4-7pm Description: Pick some vegetables from the community garden, have a sausage or bring a picnic and enjoy the activities on offer in this community … Continue reading
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Sunbeam Kindergarten Market Day
Location: Sunbeam Kindergarten, 13 Cornwall Street Time: November 23, 9am-1pm Description: Raffle, sausage sizzle, stalls to fundraise
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Carols in Packe Street Park
Location: Packe Street ParkTime: December 8 5-6pm Description: Heather Gladstone and her friends host the carol singing again this year. Sizzled sausages will be available in exchange for a small donation. If wet the event will be cancelled because an … Continue reading
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Diverse St Albans features on TV
Author Kate de Goldi who grew up in St Albans, shows viewers around St Albans on TV1 at 11am on November 10 as part of the Neighbourhood series.
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St Albans Pool Group – AGM
St Albans Pool group has their AGM this Saturday November 2nd at 10am at Abberley Park. Come along and hear about the progress we have made over the past year including the lodging of our Resource Consent with the CCC.
Accommodating NGOs in Rebuilt Christchurch
Location: WEA, 59 Gloucester St Link out: Click here Time: October 10 at 7.30pm Description: One Voice Forum will discuss resourcing (including accommodation) for NGOs in the Rebuilt Christchurch. Benesia Smith from CERA will be there to respond. One Voice … Continue reading
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St Albans Centre Noticeboard becomes SCAPE artwork
This noticeboard used to stand at the intersection of Colombo Street and Edgeware Road. Anyway it has turned up as an artwork, minus any notices, by Los Angeles-based New Zealander Fiona Connor as part of the Scape Biennial, on the … Continue reading
