Shirley Papanui Community Board Meeting

Posted on 12 December 2012 by belinda

Location: Shirley Papanui Service Centre
Time: 4pm on December 17
Link out: Click here
Description: The Shirley Papanui Community Board is expected to endorse the draft Edgeware Master Plan at its next meeting. Visit the linked website and scroll down till you see some pretty pictures of what Edgeware Village could look like in a few years. The plan needs to go to a council meeting before it is open for public consultation. This is likely to happen sometime in the New Year.

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Champion Street being resealed

Posted on 12 December 2012 by belinda

Wastewater repairs have finished on Champion Street and the section between Bealey Avenue and Gresford Street will be sealed in the week beginning December 15. SCIRT takes a three week break over the Christmas holiday period.

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St Albans News receives COGS grant

Posted on 10 December 2012 by belinda

The St Albans Residents Association has received a $5000 grant from COGS, the community grants system administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.

The grant is for wages and professional services for the St Albans News, the local print newsletter, currently being published every couple of months.

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More eqc drilling for land damage

Posted on 4 December 2012 by belinda

EQC is about to do more drilling around Christchurch streets, only this time it will be to gather data about soil composition and land damage and not about foundations.
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Making St Albans inclusive and accessible

Posted on 3 December 2012 by belinda

The Human Rights Commission will partner St Albans residents to ensure that the needs of the disabled are included when projects outlined in the St Albans Community Strategy are implemented.
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Kittens to giveaway

Posted on 3 December 2012 by belinda

Adorable kittens free to give away to good homes in January 2013.

They will be able to leave their mothers around mid January though visits before this would be welcomed. Ph/text Emma on 027 2886334.

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Ethnic dining in St Albans

Posted on 1 December 2012 by belinda

Maybe it’s the diverse population in the suburb or maybe its restaurant owners believe in providing an authentic experience when it comes to putting food on the table that led to two local eateries featuring in an article in the latest Avenues magazine about good places to find ethnic nosh.
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Break from roadworks

Posted on 1 December 2012 by belinda

Stay at home residents will be pleased to hear that they will get a break from all the roadworks when SCIRT workers head away on holiday on December 21 and won’t return till mid January. In areas around shopping centres the break from roadworks will begin on December 7 so people can do their Christmas shopping untroubled by cones and street blockages.

Source: based on material from SCIRT

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Database of community groups moves to new website

Posted on 1 December 2012 by belinda

Christchurch City Libraries has relaunched their CINCH database of community groups on its own website at www.cinch.org.nz.

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Some interesting gems in community board paperwork

Posted on 1 December 2012 by belinda

This linked document contains the agenda for the December 5 meeting but it also contains some interesting reading if you read on. At the end of the Community Board minutes in an appendix, in amongst a list of capital works, is a mention of Cranford Street’s proposed four laning being in a “preliminary design” phase.
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Whakaoho, a youth-run event for families

Posted on 29 November 2012 by belinda

Location: Papanui Domain, Sawyers Arms Road
Time: 1-4pm on December 9
Description: Join in the fun at this family event organised by young members of the Papanui Youth Development Trust.
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Picnic for volunteers

Posted on 28 November 2012 by belinda

Location: Abberley Park
Time: 12:00pm – 2pm on December 5
Description: Bring your lunch, chair and an international hat to celebrate International Volunteer Day in this beautiful little park in St Albans.
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