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FREEZING IN KARORI: City Councillor Simon Woolf captures the snow falling and snowman making in Karori PHOTO: Simon Woolf

By Fiona Donnellan

Wellington experienced a cold snap last week with a polar southerly bringing snow to some places. Dustings of snow were reported on Wrights Hill above Karori coupled with large snowdrifts in Johnsonville.

There were a lot of road closures across the country - Rimutaka Hill Road between Wellington and Wairarapa was closed last Wednesday, The New Zealand Transport Agency opting to close the road completely from 7.20pm Wednesday and reopening it again 9.20am on Thursday.

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There were strange goings on and an air of magic in Johnsonville Shopping Centre all last week as Zappo the Magician delighted everyone from toddlers to teenagers with his spellbinding magic show. It was a colourful affair of balloon twisting, singing, jokes and a carnival of magic tricks to the delight of those gathered.

With the help of an ‘Abracadabra’, an ‘open sesame’ and a ‘hocus pocus’ from the audi-ence, Zappo managed to wow the school holiday crowd, and even had them sing a rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Zappo also highly commended his magic assistant Caleb Foden from Johnsonville who was able to help Zappo during the performance. Caleb is hoping to be a magi-cian when he grows up and is already busy practising the art of magic in his spare time.

Zappo himself has been a full-time children’s entertainer for 17 years and at the 30th New Zealand International Magi-cians Convention in 2010 he was awarded

ABRACADABRA: Lydia, Zion, Judah and Zadok Middlemiss, Hannah and Liliana Marsden all enjoying the show PHOTO: Fiona Donnellan

‘Best Children’s Entertainer’. Not only that but in 2012 he won Best Stage Act at the 31st International Magicians convention.

Zappo also told the Independent Herald that he is a proud member of the Wellington Magic Club. The Club is at the moment busy organising the Wellington Magic Convention set for later this year.

ABRACADABRA: Future magician Caleb Foden with Brother Alex and Zappo the Magician PHOTO: Fiona Donnellan

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temperatures, sleety showers, strong southerlies and urged motorists to take extra care driving while cold conditions continued.

New Zealand Transport Agency also suggested commuters plan ahead for travel to work, saying “Consider taking the train to avoid being on the road, especially if you're not a confi dent driver in winter conditions.”

There was moisture in the air and freezing temperatures leaving the capital's hilly suburbs in particular with cold mornings and snowy conditions as temperatures fell below 2 degrees in some places, and a nationwide low of 13 degrees was recorded at Mount Hutt ski fi eld.

City Councillor Simon Woolf took some photos from Wrights Hill above Karori last Thursday and commented “Today was quite an amazing set of

events. It is only the third time I have seen snow settle in Wellington. I have lived here all my life, and in Karori for 23 years. It is generally great to have rare and relatively harmless snow around the suburb. So long as people understand that it is easy to come adrift, and it can be a hazard if precautions aren't taken. This morning I did see a few cars slide on the snow and ice on Wrights Hill, however generally people took care and behaved.”

MetService meteorologist Georgina Griffiths surmised that this type of weather is unusually chilly for this time of year. During Thursday, the North Island got the coldest air resulting in big frosts to sheltered places, and "sleety snow showers and bitter wind chills.”

The frost Monday morning even left commuters reeling as the Johnsonville train line was effected, many services being replaced by bus due to the adverse weather conditions.

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Once upon a time Tanisha Wardle auditioned for Cinder-ella and won the role of Lady Florencia Fabioza. Johnsonville resident Tanisha has quite the busy acting schedule, she just recently starred in Stagecraft’s The 39 Steps - Patrick Bar-low’s play adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy film, and this month she takes to the stage in Porirua Little Theatre’s Cinderella.

“We just fi nished 39 Steps at the weekend, we wrapped up everything Sunday morning and I had rehearsals for Cinderella in the afternoon,” says Tanisha about the quick turnaround.

“I’ve been learning the lines all week. It’s a pantomime so you can ad-lib a bit. I’ve warned the other actors that I may slightly adjust one or two of my lines,” says Tanisha.

In Cinderella Tanisha plays ‘would be brides’ who have set their sights on the Prince in the tale. “I worked with Porirua Little Theatre earlier this year in Mirror Mirror, I played the Mirror, but this time I play three characters that the Prince meets, one French, one Argentinian, three very different characters.”

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Thousands of commuters to and from Wellington who are already using Semble to make everyday payments with

their smartphones can now pay for public transport services wherever the Snapper symbol is displayed.

Initially, an estimated 50,000 Wellington Snapper users will be able to use the service.

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pay for their trip, top up and buy passes, all directly from their phone. This makes catching the bus, taxi or paying for parking even easier than before, letting customers get on with their day.”

Semble CEO Rob Ellis says the addition of Snapper to the Semble app is a significant milestone for the business and marks a signifi cant period of growth for the New Zealand mobile wallet.

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app offering multiple services to customers. A one-stop shop including payments, transport, ticketing, offers, loyalty cards, all on your phone accessed via a single app. The launch of Snap-per in Semble brings us one step closer to that goal.”

“With so many more Kiwis using public transport on a day to day basis, it is a real win for us to extend the offering of the Semble mobile wallet to now also include public transport, just three months after launch-ing with payments,” added Ellis.

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Last week there was more planting within the forest slopes below the Hanover St entrance of Trelissick Park. This included more native grasses, korokoro, poataniwha and tawa. The Trelissick Park group cleared more troublesome weeds, which they’ve managed to almost entirely eliminate in some areas, allowing gratifying native seedling emergence. For more on the park and getting involved see www.trelissickpark.org.nz.

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Before the school break, the students at Marsden were busy raising funds for the Rosemary Poland Service Scholarship. Year 12 students Mia Vinaccia and Laura Heycoop are trained baristas, so they decided to charitably cash-in on people’s coffee and hot chocolate crav-ings at the school; each coffee

they made at lunchtime for one week went towards the scholar-ship fund.

“The girls have been making hot chocolates, teas and coffees. All the proceeds go towards the Rosemary Poland Service Scholarship, to help the village of Safotu. To help the students and teachers there, and all in the memory of our late Chaplain Rosemary Poland. Rosemary

was instrumental to the set-ting up of our Service trips to Samoa,” says Sarah King the current Chaplain at the school about the worthwhile cause.

Rosemary Poland served as Chaplain at Marsden from May 2006, until her terminal illness forced her retirement in 2001. Rosemary was passionate about young people and believed in the importance of Service,

BARISTA BREW CREW: Marsden students Laura Heycoop and Mia Vinaccia with school Chaplin Sarah King PHOTO: Fiona Donnellan

which resulted in Service trips to Samoa and Fiji over her years, assisting those in need. It was her view that any Service trips undertaken should be focused on the Pacifi c communities and accessible to students.

When Rosemary passed away in 2013 the school decided to honour her work, commitment and memory by creating a scholarship in her name.

The scholarship aims to sup-port a senior student in asso-ciation with their community in Samoa or Fiji to travel to New Zealand and participate in classes at Marsden for a period of time.

Marsden has had a long rela-tionship through the Anglican Church with St James Church in Levuka, Fiji and over the last four years established a relation-ship with the school and village in Safotu, Western Samoa.

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One of these ten recipients making a big impact was Tracy Wellington from Kiwi Community Assistance, Tawa for waste minimisation.

Kiwi Community Assistance or KCA has been chosen on the basis that it impressed project organisers with their aim to work together to reduce poverty in the community.

This grant will help provide sup-port for continued work in the Wel-lington community by Tracy and her team, in particular, warehouse rental.

“We had no idea that we were fi nalists until last Tuesday when I got a call from an Auckland number, I let it go to voicemail as I was at a conference and didn’t recognise the phone number. Then I checked my voicemail I heard them congratulat-ing me on being one of ten to receive the $5,000 grant,” explains Tracy about how she found out KCA had won.

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Alex JonesJohnsonville

I haven’t tried it, haven’t really been interested. Chocolate and peach would be really good, I think.

David YoungJohnsonville

It was alright, not worth the hype though. I have no idea! I just like Whittaker’s creamy or white chocolate and macadamia.

Komal GandhiJohnsonvilleI liked it, the white chocolate, jelly and milk chocolate - so many layers. I would add something crunchy to it.

Esha GandhiJohnsonville

It is a really unique type of chocolate. They’ve done jelly tip chocolate, icecream and biscuits…what next? I would add almonds to jelly tip.

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I haven’t tried it either. Squiggle chocolate would be tasty.

Ryan BartletJohnsonville

I haven’t tried it, I’m not a big chocolate eater. I prefer fejoa lollies.

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I am against this proposal of a liquor outlet mainly due to the reasons that you have already written in your article of July 8.

The Regional Public Health authorities and the NZ Police have opposed this. This alone should be a good indicator of potential issues (trouble). There

is enough time and effort spent (wasted) by these authorities because people can not handle their alcohol consumption.

If this applicant was denied opening a liquor outlet in Bulls, why should he open one anywhere else? You obviously know more of the history in

this regard. If we really need another liquor outlet, it should be run by someone that shows they have the maturity and responsibility for the position. Only an idiot will sell liquor to under age people.

We already have liquor outlets in Johnsonville. None of them

have queues out the door due to inadequate supply. If anything, we probably can do with a couple less liquor outlets. How many more do we need? 12? 27? 106?

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recent graduate of Yoobee School of Design has landed a dream internship in Swit-zerland.

Fetching dry cleaning and endless lattes for an over-bearing boss with no pay and little rest is the stuff of nightmares for any intern, but Ben Roberts-Thomson, 20, is headed for intern heaven.

Ben has been selected for an all-expenses paid 12-month internship as media trainee for an internationally acclaimed hospitality and tourism school, nestled at the foot of the Swiss Alps.

With fl ights, accommodation and food - prepared by a chef no less - is all provided for, Ben will be left to put his pas-sion for design to work.

“I’ve always been interested in fi lm creation and story writ-ing and I really like making

people smile and be happy.Hopefully, I can make people

look at the school and feel like it’s a fun exciting place to go to and study at.”

He will be in charge of man-aging the school’s YouTube and iTunes U profi le and pho-tographing and fi lming their events.

He is incredibly excited and his fellow graduates are under-standably envious.

Joking Ben says, “I told my friends and there was a com-bination of ‘That’s awesome’ and ‘I hate you, I can’t believe it’ statements from them.

With a couple of short fi lms already under his belt, Ben is looking forward to learning a whole new set of skills with hopes it will help launch an international career in the creative industries.

The internship is part of a new partnership between the school and ACG Tertiary and Careers Group.

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SWITZERLAND BOUND: Ben Roberts-Thomson from Johnsonville scores an amazing internship to Switzerland PHOTO: Emma Morgan

By Fiona Donnellan

Johnsonville Lions Club’s new offi cers were appointed recently, including Sandra Gaelic who was welcomed as the Club presi-dent for 2015/16.

Sandra is no stranger to John-sonville Lions Club or the local community, she has been an active member of the Club for many years and is relishing her new role and striding forward with the Club’s planned activities for the next 12 months.

Eddie Reisch will be the Club’s vice-president and aims to bring

fresh ideas to the group along with supporting Sandra.

Sandra outlined to members and guests at the ceremony that she would like the Club to increase its membership over the course of the next year. The Club currently has 24 members. “It is important that we focus on membership within the northern suburbs,” says Sandra. Adding, “Increased membership will en-able us to continue our involve-ment with projects and activities in our local communities, as well as enjoy our social activities.”

Another area Sandra, who is

the 47th President of Johnson-ville Lions, is keen to focus on is increased social activity with Club members, and with other Lions Clubs in the Wellington region.

All the new appointees will be continuing the Lions Club’s great work throughout the year with events like the Christmas parade, community dances, and local conservation work.

Plus one of the Club’s major focuses for the year ahead is to raise funds for cancer research at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute.

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Sweet Bakery and Cakery in Marsden Vil-lage has started happily handing over their end-of-the-day cupcakes to Bellyful - a charity who provides meals for families struggling with newborns or illness.

Sweet strives to make Wellingtonian's lives a little sweeter, so the fact that their homemade cakes are being re-homed each week to those who need them really is the icing on the cake for shop owner Grace Kreft.

Grace is a huge supporter of Bellyful and the great work they do. The not-for-profi t organisa-tion’s volunteers cook and deliver free meals to families who may fi nd themselves struggling with babies or small children who are ill. The Karori chapter delivers to the community of “Karori, up to Khandallah and surrounding areas.”

“We bake our cupcakes fresh every morning; we always want the counter to look beautiful and abundant so we always bake extra. It’s sad to throw them away, so this is the positive fl ip side of baking too many,” says Grace about donating the excess cupcakes to support

Bellyful’s cause. “I think it’s fantastic and admirable what Bel-

lyful do. It’s an amazing service,” she added. Jacqui Jago of Bellyful started the Karori

branch of the charity four years ago; she also manages the Lower North Island branches. “My branch has 20 volunteers,” explains Jacqui.

“We help out families, those with no family or social support. We acknowledge how hard it can be with a family,” says Jacqui.

“Regardless of your fi nancial situation we cook lasagne, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti bolognese, and deliver 100 meals a month to 35 families. We’re so grateful for Sweet’s generosity,” says Jacqui about their weekly, sometimes daily, donations of cupcakes.

About the joint venture with Bellyful, Grace says “It was really good timing, like serendip-ity.” Grace had been looking to work with a charity, and so this seemed the perfect fi t.

The perfect sweet after a whole and hearty meal sounds like a recipe for success. For more on both Sweet and Bellyful Karori see www.sweetbakery.co.nz and www.bel-lyful.org.nz.

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SWEET GENEROSITY: Jacqui Jago from charity Bellyful Karori, her daughter Ella and Sweet Bakery and Cakery owner Grace Kreft PHOTO: Emma Morgan

By Fiona Donnellan

Don't be late for a very important date at The Katherine Mansfi eld House, Thorndon, July 25 and 26. As part of the Capital 150 Anniversary celebrations, there will be a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at the house. It’s one for the kids, with “Lots of fun and games and general madness guaranteed,” including fancy-dress, pin the tail on the donkey, face painting, tea leaf readings and games.

This is just one of the events tak-ing place across the Anniversary weekend. The capital city is quite literally throwing a party and everyone is invited.

“Wellington’s always looking for a reason to party and celebrating

our 150th birthday as the country’s capital is a great excuse for a week-end in Wellington,” says Positively Wellington Tourism Chief Execu-tive David Perks.

Other events happening across the weekend include Open House, where Wellington’s historic institu-tions are opening their doors free of charge and hope to reveal some of the nation’s rarest and most significant treasures. Te Papa is also taking part in Open House, offering behind the scenes tours of its national collections, includ-ing secret treasures housed at its Tory Street storage facility. A free hop-on, hop-off bus service will take visitors along the entire Open House circuit.

Parliament House itself will be lit

up with 3D projections to tell the capital’s story.

It was July 26, 1865, that Parlia-ment sat for the fi rst time in Wel-lington, cementing itself as New Zealand’s capital city.

“For the past 150 years Welling-ton’s been home to some of New Zealand’s most defi ning moments. From leading the world in giving women the right to vote in 1893, to legalising gay marriage in 2013, Wellington’s proudly been in the thick of it for the past 150 years,” says Positively Wellington Tourism Chief Executive David Perks.

Find out more about how Wel-lington became the capital and 150th-anniversary events at www.WellingtonNZ.com/Capital150th.

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SWEET GENEROSITY: Jacqui Jago from charity Bellyful Karori, her daughter Ella and Sweet Bakery and Cakery owner Grace Kreft PHOTO: Emma Morgan

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SOLUTIONFor March 9, 2005

ACROSS1. Elbowed (7)5. & 48 ACROSS. The honest life (3,8,3,6)11. Hoist anchor (5)12. Excites (7)13. Adage (5)14. Plunder (9)15. Most reliable (9)16. Yearn (4)17. Greatness (7)19. Diminish (6)23. Get (6)26. Refrain from alcohol (7)29. Incline (4)30. Young dog (3)32. Smear (3)34. Flightless birds (4)35. Disloyalty (7)36. Spanish dance (6)39. Military pageant (6)40. Stress (7)42. Teases (4)46. Extended (9)48. SEE 5 ACROSS.50. Species of pepper (5)51. Disobedient (7)52. Early architectural style (5)

53. Capriciousness (11)54. Able to meet financialobligations (7)

DOWN1. Muslim holy war (5)2. Whet (7)3. Ogled (6)4. Diminishes (8)5. Downpour (7)6. Splendour (5)7. Soft paper (6)8. Confessed (8)9. Neglected slum child (11)10. Freshwater fish (5)16. Defend (7)18. Proportion (5)20. Ideas (7)21. Thimbleful (3)22. Movable cover (3)24. Reliable (11)25. Kernel (3)27. Thicket (5)28. Apprehend (3)31. Interfere (3)33. Move up & down (3)37. Country in central Asia (8)38. Farewells (8)

41. Cover with bandages (7)43. Cut short (7)44. Made amends (6)45. Alliance of political parties (6)46. Arm joint (5)47. Forty all(tennis) (5)49. Least good thing (5)

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SOLUTIONFor March 9, 2005

ACROSS1. Elbowed (7)5. & 48 ACROSS. The honest life (3,8,3,6)11. Hoist anchor (5)12. Excites (7)13. Adage (5)14. Plunder (9)15. Most reliable (9)16. Yearn (4)17. Greatness (7)19. Diminish (6)23. Get (6)26. Refrain from alcohol (7)29. Incline (4)30. Young dog (3)32. Smear (3)34. Flightless birds (4)35. Disloyalty (7)36. Spanish dance (6)39. Military pageant (6)40. Stress (7)42. Teases (4)46. Extended (9)48. SEE 5 ACROSS.50. Species of pepper (5)51. Disobedient (7)52. Early architectural style (5)

53. Capriciousness (11)54. Able to meet financialobligations (7)

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41. Cover with bandages (7)43. Cut short (7)44. Made amends (6)45. Alliance of political parties (6)46. Arm joint (5)47. Forty all(tennis) (5)49. Least good thing (5)

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By Fiona Donnellan

For anyone who has ever expe-rienced wanderlust then they’ll be interested in the Northern Suburbs Travel Club. The social group was set up in 2009 by Jim Collins to give people the opportunity to share in the experience of travel and to use that opportunity to explore areas of common interest.

John Craig, from Churton Park, is the club’s current pre-senter and welcomes guest speakers each month. “I in-troduce speakers and keep things ticking along,” says John about the meeting each month at Johnsonville Community Centre.

John himself has had a jam

packed travelling history. He’s visited and walked the El Camino de Santiago in Spain and the Pacifi c Crest Trail in the States, which takes about fi ve months to walk, and the Appalachian Trail in the US also. He even did a house swap in Spain for two years. His lat-est trip took him to Vanuatu in the South Pacifi c for two weeks.

Members of the club are in-vited to regale the group with trips to Galapagos Islands, South Africa Game Reserves, The Taj Mahal, Beijing and be-yond. On the third Wednesday of each month, the travel club gathers in the centre to share their travel experiences. “Each month there are typically 35 to 40 people at the meetings,”

says John.Fellow Churton Park resident

Ed Crampton shares his stories on his time in Western Japan this week, with stories on Cuba, Spain and Portugal in the pipe-line. On occasion, the group travels a little further afield with outings, activities and a mid-winter dinner organised. Later in the year some of the group are even planning a big-ger trip, fi rst stop Vietnam, then onwards to Cambodia. “The trip will be later this year. We’re en-couraging members and others to come along, it’s reasonably priced,” explains John. The full list of upcoming guest speakers is available on the club’s website www.nstravelclub.net.

WANDERLUST: John Craig on the Pacifi c Crest Trail which runs from Mexico to Canada PHOTO: Supplied

Travel bug in Johnsonville

Deborah Rings and Gary Tuohy are the winners of the double passes to The Rus-sian National Ballet Theatre performance of Swan Lake, August 18 at 7.30pm at Wellington Opera House. We will contact winners with details on ticket collection. Congratulations to both winners.

WINNERS

By Fiona Donnellan

Zealandia this week has an-nounced that Hilary Beaton is to step down after two years in her lead role as Chief Executive at the conservation sanctuary.

The Karori Sanctuary Trust Board have said that Hilary “took on with gusto the chal-lenge of establishing visible foundations for the sanctuary’s sustainable and successful future.”

Hilary joined the Karori Sanctuary Trust as Chief Ex-ecutive in October 2013, after what is widely regarded as a respected leadership contribu-tion in the performing arts sector in the region.

She was the driving force behind an array of new initia-tives at Zealandia including the

Valley Blueprint, a strategic map for the future develop-ment of the Sanctuary Val-ley’s facilities, overhaul of the Sanctuary’s operations, setting up new teams and improved systems and processes.

During her time at the sanctu-ary, a refreshed approach to visitor connections, includ-ing a year-round programme of themes and activities was developed.

Another accolade for Hilary is that she was recognised as Wellingtonian of the Year in 2009.

The Trust Board’s aim now is to find a worthy replace-ment and continue their hard work to realise their 500-year vision, and solidify its major place in Wellington’s natural infrastructure.

IN ACTION: Former Zealandia Chief Executive Hilary Beaton (Centre) with Department of Conservation representatives PHOTO: Supplied

Zealandia CEO Steps Down


The International Cricket Council [ICC] has this week announced that the Cricket World Cup not surprisingly boosted Wellington economy, but it’s surprising just how staggering these fi gures are.

PricewaterhouseCoopers released the eco-nomic impact report that shows the Cricket World Cup has given the Wellington economy quite the boost; with direct spend by out of town visitors of $35 million and an increase in gross domestic product in the city by $40 million.

During the four matches which took place at Wellington Regional Stadium more than 85,000 people attended, with over 30,000 of the crowd coming from outside of the Wellington region.

Sports fan Deputy Mayor Justin Lester says with two sell-out matches and more than 10,000 international visitors to the city, Wellington exceeded all expectations.

“We’re delighted with the results of hosting the ICC Cricket World Cup. With two sold out matches, a hugely popular Village Green Fan Hub in Civic Square, and the quarter fi nal high-light of Martin Guptill smashing his way to the highest ever score in a Cricket World Cup, we certainly lived up to our reputation as the events capital of New Zealand,” said Councillor Lester.

Councillor Jo Coughlan, Chair of the Eco-nomic Development and Arts Committee concurred saying the ICC Cricket World Cup has been an outstanding success for Wellington.

Councillor Coughlan added, “Events like the ICC Cricket World Cup and the World of Wearable Arts don’t just make Wellington a great place to live, work and visit; they also have a signifi cant impact on our economy. As well as attracting more than 30,000 unique visitors to the city, the ICC Cricket World Cup created 700 additional jobs in Wellington, brought in $35 million of direct spending by out of town visitors, and increased GDP by $40 million.”

Cricket boosts Wellington economy

SPORT

By Fiona Donnellan

Victoria University and Wellington City Council have come together to make student accommodation hot-ter, comfi er and cosier this winter season, not to men-tion more energy effi cient. Victoria University Wel-lington (VUW) standalone houses last month saw im-proved living conditions for students. A welcome arrival when temperatures plum-meted of late.

The 67 VUW residential properties received a free whole-house assessment from the Sustainability Trust as part of the Council’s Home Energy Saver Programme.

Council and VUW split the costs of these assessments, co-funding the sustainability assessments. Recommenda-tions were also made by the Sustainability Trust, for each property, covering plumbing, insulation, moisture levels, heating and ventilation.

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the University and Council worked in close collaboration to improve the standard of accommodation.

“Energy savings, lower carbon emissions and stu-dents who are warmer and healthier through the winter months are all positive out-comes from this project,” she says.

In order to make the ac-commodation more energy effi cient Victoria University paid for all costs for the upgrades, which included 300 LED bulbs, saving approximately 30,000 kWh per year and costs of around $7000. Water efficient shower heads were also installed along with insula-tion on hot water pipes and cylinders and door brushes to reduce drafts.

Other measures included eliminating sources of dampness and installing energy effi cient heating.

“The project was a trial for how we might work with larger residential landlord groups in the long term,” says Environmental Port-folio Leader, Iona Pannett. “We would like to help them with asset improvement works focused on getting homes warmer, drier and more energy effi cient.”

Things are hotting up for students

By Fiona Donnellan

Wellington City Council are tar-geting red-light runners with their latest ‘Stop on Red’ intersection safety campaign. Their bus backs and billboards can be spotted in the city centre and around the Western and Northern suburbs including in Johnsonville along Burma Road, where it intersects with Fraser Avenue.

The campaign wants to instil in drivers around the Wellington region that if you run a red light you’re risking not only your life but others and that it’s simply “not worth it.” Plus all road users who fail to stop on the red may incur a $150 fi ne if caught.

Inspector Michael Wright, Dis-trict Road Policing Manager, says

that one in four crashes in Wel-lington are a direct result of failure to stop or give way at intersections. Between 2013 and 2014 alone, Police saw incidents of nearly 1,000 crashes at intersections in the Capital, leaving 296 people injured.

Councillor Andy Foster, Chair of the Council’s Transport and Urban Development Committee, says that in addition to the human cost of fatal and serious crashes, they can also cause significant traffi c disruption and expense for the vehicle owner.

Cr Foster added that “When traffic delays occur, the whole city can be affected. It can cause disruption to personal lives, as well as businesses. We all know there is always plenty of time to stop before

a light turns red. The Road Code is very clear that the amber light means stop if you safely can - it isn’t an invitation to speed up to try to beat the red light.”

If commuting to the city be aware that the campaign is sup-ported with police enforcement at intersections throughout the city centre. Also, a red light camera was recently installed on the corner of Karo Drive and Victoria Street after research showed it was among the highest-risk intersec-tions in the country for red-light running related crashes.Would these ‘Stop on Red’ style billboards make you stop on red, or do they just act as a distraction for drivers? Have your say by emailing [email protected] with your opinion.

Stop the lightsTRAFFIC STOPPERS: ‘Stop on Red’ billboard on Burma Road at intersection with Fraser Avenue PHOTO: Emma Morgan

By Rachel Binning You’re never too old to walk or run,

just ask Michael Browne who at 85 years runs for the Wellington Scottish Athletics Club.

Michael was representing his club in the Wellington Masters Athletics road race on Sunday July 12 along with around 40 other over 35-year-old walking and running athletes.

“There is a good turnout for this event,” says race manager Brian Watson.

The Olympic Harrier Club fi rst ran the Masters 8km race in Johnsonville in 1985. Sunday’s event saw athletes travel from fi ve clubs - Scottish, Hutt Valley Harriers, Trentham United Harriers, Olympic Harriers, and Levin Harrier and Multisport Club.

First placed woman runner, Olympic Harrier, Michelle Van Looy, 44, ran

in cold still conditions to achieve a personal best of 33.46 minutes on the 8km race around the streets of John-sonville. Michelle said she was “really pleased” with her effort this year.

Winning male runner Brian Gar-monsway, 37, blitzed the fi eld in a winning time of 27.20 minutes and looked like he could re-run the race afterwards.

Winning walkers from their 6.4km course were Peter Baillie with 38.02 minutes and Terri Gimmett with 41.22 minutes; both are in the over 55-year-old grade.

Following the event, the athletes and their supporters were invited to the prize giving over a friendly, shared lunch. If you are over 35 and want more information on being part of the Masters go to www.wellingtonmas-tersathletics.org.nz.

RUNNING AWAY WITH IT: Wellington Masters Athletics road race, Johnsonville PHOTO: Bella Photography

You’re never too old to walk or run

First male runner: Brian Garmon-sway fl ies around the course

First female runner: Michelle Van Looy of Olympic Harriers catches her breath

independent herald 14-07-15

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