Volunteer @ Your Place

Posted on 22 July 2013 by belinda

Location: St Albans Baptist Church, 64 McFaddens Road
Time: September 17 1-6pm
Description: Volunteer Canterbury is running sessions in different communities showing how people can get more involved in their local community as volunteers. September is the turn of St Albans.

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Asbestos in houses

Posted on 22 July 2013 by belinda

EQC will only remove asbestos from Christchurch homes where the claddings have actually been damaged by the quakes. Any other asbestos-removal is the responsibility of the homeowner.
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EQC customers can phone for their engineering report

Posted on 22 July 2013 by belinda

EQC’s Reid Stiven told a NewstalkZB interview hosted by Chris Lynch on July 16 that any EQC customer who wants their engineering should just call 0800DAMAGE and request a copy. This is not an OIA request so you are entitled to it in a timely fashion.

Source: CanCERN newsletter

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Get to know your neighbours – CCC is paying

Posted on 22 July 2013 by belinda

If you are planning a spring fling in your neighbourhood after the brouhaha of the local elections has died down, the city council has a small subsidy available through the local community board for your street party. As long as it it is part of Neighbourhood Week that runs from October 25 to November 3 it has a good chance of success. For more information, application details and ideas on how to celebrate the week and get to know your neighbours, visit: www.ccc.govt.nz/neighbourhoodweek. Applications are open now and close on August 23.

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Free soup and movie lunch

Posted on 22 July 2013 by belinda

Location: St Albans United Church, Corner of Nancy Avenue and Knowles Street
Time: August 8 12-2pm
Description: The St Francis of Assisi Parish Mairehau holds free soup and movie lunches, once a month during the winter.
This is a time to meet people, combat the bleakness of winter and be entertained. Contact Wendy Clark if you plan to attend (phone 385 3459 or 027 684 4111) or email pastoralworker@mairehauparish.org.nz).

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Transitional centre deemed a hazard

Posted on 20 July 2013 by belinda

The old community centre was an earthquake hazard, red stickered in 2010 and later demolished and now apparently the transitional St Albans Community Centre has been deemed a hazard by the very body that has been tasked with looking after it.
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EQC owns up to home repair letter error

Posted on 15 July 2013 by belinda

EQC recently sent 4000 letters to customers in its Canterbury Home Repair Programme containing information not relevant to their claims.
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Social wellbeing index set up by CERA

Posted on 15 July 2013 by belinda

A wellbeing index based on data from multiple agencies is being set up by CERA to track the progress of the social recovery of Canterbury following the earthquakes. The data will look at issues such as health, employment and housing and enable CERA to target areas to focus on during the coming months and years.

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Northern Arterial Extension

Posted on 13 July 2013 by belinda

Location: Mairehau Library, 42 Kensington Ave, St Albans
Time: Tuesday, August 13 7.30pm
Description: St Albans Community Discussion about the northern arterial extension i.e.: four laning Cranford Street.

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Five great reasons to live in St Albans this winter

Posted on 13 July 2013 by belinda
    1. The scoops of chips at the newly re-opened St Albans Seafood (fish and chip shop) down Westminster Street
    2. The friendly smile and wave as thanks when you stop to let others pass when forced into one lane of traffic
    3. The 24 hour surgery catering for all manner of illness and sports related injuries close by
    4. EQC finally back in our area beginning to look at land damage to properties
    5. The abundance of feijoa windfalls on the streets, just pick up and eat!

Submitted A Peppernit. This list first appeared in the July edition of St Albans News. Want to add your own ideas? Fill in the comments form below or email News@stalbans.gen.nz

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How about a local EQ support group for St Albans?

Posted on 13 July 2013 by belinda

A support group for St Albans would help local residents coping with a second round of trauma and the feeling they have been forgotten by larger agencies, according to a City Mission outreach worker.
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Come along for a laugh on Sundays

Posted on 13 July 2013 by belinda

Pass by the Scottish Society Hall in Edgeware Road on a Sunday morning and you may hear lots of laughter. Liz van Halewyn found out more from one of the facilitators, Hannah Airey.
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