Bringing back native plants to the city

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

Title: Plant Conservation Network AGM and talk
Time: November 29 at 5:30pm
Location: Canterbury Horticultural Centre, Hagley Park
Website: www.nzpcn.org.nz
Description: A public talk on bringing native plants back to the city is the key feature of the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network’s AGM. The AGM and awards ceremony will be held at 5.30pm with a break for food and drink followed by the public talk sometime after 7pm. The two speakers are Dr Judith Roper Lindsay from Greening the Rubble Trust and Dr Colin Meurk, a researcher at Landcare Research with interests in urban biodiversity and sustainable design.

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Library back at centre (for 90 minutes)

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

It’s the post quake version of the Mobile Library and it will be at the St Albans Community Centre on Mondays from 10am to 11.30am.
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Schroeders Tavern reviewed

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

SARA doesn’t have a budget for me to eat out at local eateries so you’ll have to take the word of others like Keith Lynch who writes for the Press. Find out what he got up to at Schroeder’s Tavern in Warrington Street in this review.

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Newsletter from local MP

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

Newsletter from local MP Nicky Wagner features, among other things, the men’s shed in Nancy Avenue.

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Rutland Street being resurfaced

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

Fletchers has begun to resurface Rutland Street. This is the final stage of repairs to that street.

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Edgeware Road section to reopen for Christmas

Posted on 27 November 2012 by belinda

MCConnell Dowell are hopeful of having Edgeware Road, between Allard and Madras Streets, sealed and ready to reopen for Christmas.

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Feedback sought on Govt transport plan for city

Posted on 23 November 2012 by belinda

CERA wants feedback from Christchurch citizens on An Accessible City, the draft transport chapter of the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan by February 1.
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Celebrate UN Day of Persons With Disabilities

Posted on 23 November 2012 by belinda

Come along to the ReSTART mall on Sunday. December 2 at 11 am and help celebrate the day with music, dance, poetry and performing arts. It does not matter whether you are able-bodied or coping daily with impairments, it’s a day for everybody. A DJ from Classic Hits will mc the event, which runs until 3pm.

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Transport plan vague about vehicle dispersal

Posted on 23 November 2012 by belinda

Christchurch City Council has adopted the Christchurch Transport Strategic Plan without clarifying how traffic will disperse from the two major roads that end on St Albans boundaries.
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Sara Parkin – Forum for the Future

Posted on 22 November 2012 by belinda

Location: WEA, 59 Gloucester Street
Time: 7.30pm on November 30
Description: Sarah Parkin will focus on how to accelerate change to a more sustainable, and therefore resilient, way of life at a lecture being held at the WEA.
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Residents fear released prisoners

Posted on 22 November 2012 by belinda

Some ex-prisoners who do not have suitable homes to return to are parolled to the Salisbury Foundation’s halfway home in St Albans Street according to this recent Star news story and it is making residents uneasy.

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Midwives open rebuilt premises soon

Posted on 21 November 2012 by belinda

The College of Midwives will officially open their new National Office building in Manchester Street in St Albans this week. The brick building on the site was damaged in the earthquakes and has now been rebuilt in a very different style. The building will also house clinics and related organisations.

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