Richmond Community News• June 2004 Vol 2 No 5 Issue 15

Mid-winter celebrationplanned for older easternresidents.Older folk living in Richmond, Avonside andeastern Inner City areas are invited to spendthe day involved in a special mid-wintercelebration offering a tour of six local venueswith all venues providing their own programmeof special activities.

From 10.00am to 3.00pm, on Tuesday 29June 2004, participants (those over 60years of age) can enjoy complimentaryrefreshments, friendship, entertainment, havea go activities and learning opportunities.

Here is a list of what's available:

Avebury House (9 Eveleyn Close)A continuous Victorian tea party, within a

beautiful house andgarden setting.

Delta Community House (105 North AvonRoad)Tai Chi, gentle exercise and pilatesdemonstrations which visitors may participatein plus a performance from Shirley schoolchildren.

Avonside Holy Trinity Church (LychgateClose)Top-to-toe health information and checks byvarious organisations. The various topicsinclude healthy eating, diabetes, arthritis,Alzheimer's disease, safety in the home, footcare, personal alarms and home help.

Richmond Methodist Church (315 StanmoreRoad)Have a go ringing the handbells at 1pm andenjoy a kapa haka performance by localschool children at 2pm. Keep playing games

of today and yesteryear throughout the day- giant snakes and ladders, draughts, cards,chess, quoits and more.

Richmond Working Men's Club and MSA (75London Street)Open day for those on the mid-wintercelebration tour. Have a look around - a gameof pool, snooker or indoor bowls. Watch orjoin in with the line dancing! (Excludes freerefreshments).

Te Whare Roimata - Linwood Community ArtsCentre (388 Worcester St)A medley of performance and activities- music, song, dance, movement and art.

Participants may wish to sample what is onoffer at all venues, or choose to visit just oneor two. During the day, community vans willprovide free transport between venues (whichare all in close proximity) on a regular basis.

Detailed programmes are available fromChristchurch City Council's Linwood ServiceCentre, Civic Offices, and all participatingcommunity venues, or from Diana Saxton,Community Recreation Adviser, 941 6628.

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DIVERSE YOUTH cafe CELEBRATESFIRST BIRTHDAY.

Diverse Youth cafe, a cafe by youth, for youth, celebratesits first birthday this month. Since the youth cafe openedits doors to East Christchurch a year ago it has seen anincrease in clientele and, like any good cafe, now has acore group of regulars.

Over the last year the cafe has held Latin dance lessons,displayed photography and sculptures by local students,organized a touch rugby team and worked in with theLeisure Unit from the Linwood Service Centre to act as ahost for surfing lessons. The combination of a youth basedcafe committee, a variety of activities, great coffees, hotchocolates, tasty food and friendly young staff has beenthe key for ensuring that young people keep coming back.

Diverse Youth cafe is a project of the Youth InitiativesTrust - Ka Whakaaro o ka Rakatahi. "From the Trust'spoint of view the cafe has been very successful on manydifferent levels. The most obvious is providing a safe,accessible venue for youth but the cafe has also beena great training ground. The cafe has been a leapingoff point for some of our staff into other work and ourvolunteers have gained barista skills as well as knowledgeof occupational health and safety regulations." said medialiaison officer for the Trust, Erin Ebborn-Gillespic.

New manager of the cafe, Bryon Cope, has enjoyedseeing youth learn new skills. "People need torealize that Diverse is not just a cafe. It is a placewhere youth can access skills, supplies, courseinformation and talk to an on-site youth worker."said Bryon Cope.

Tania Smith, youth worker employed by 198 YouthHealth and based at Diverse Youth cafe, is full ofideas for the next year and happy to hear from anyyouth who want to be involved.

"The Trust is confident that over the next yearDiverse Youth cafe will continue to grow and,like the name suggests, diversify." said Ms.Ebborn-Gillespie. "The Trust is very grateful forthe continued support of local businesses and theHag ley/Ferry mead Community Board."

Diverse Youth cafe is located at 5 Buckleys Road,opposite Eastgatc Mall. It is open Tuesday toSaturday evening. For information about the cafe,training opportunities and the birthday celebrationplease contact either Bryon or Tania at 381 8619.

Delta Community Support TrustPO Box 26 091, CHRISTCHURCHCnr Petrie St and North Avon Rd

Making a Choice for Change

Phone:Fax:E-mail:

(03) 3890219

(03) 389 0273

DO YOU WANT TO "LIVE TO THE MAX?" DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO CHANGE?Delta Community Support Trust runs a course to enable you to Live Life to the Max!Meet with a support worker to discuss your life as it is now, then using a self-profile,we brainstorm new directions and set new goals. Participants are linked to a supportgroup of four or five others, meeting weekly for 1 1/2 hours, to help each other worktowards individual goals. These groups gather for four months. But it's not all hard work;participants enjoy meeting new friends and have fun as well.Apply to join the "Live to the Max" Course in May by phoning Ciara on3890219

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Avebury in JuneAvebury House, situated at 9 EveleynCouzins Ave. Richmond, is a communityrun, low cost facility which has rooms

available for hire.Situated in the midst of Avebury Park, the housewhich has been recently refurbished has beenopen for 20 months and has run several opendays and social events.In addition to the amenities for hire, thefollowing classes and activities are available:

Gentle Exercise Class - Mondays 1- 2p.m(wear comfortable clothing)Cost $2.50This Sit and Be Fit class is a fun and healthy

way to retain mobility, independence and meetnew people. Designed especially for those withlimited mobility, older adults and those withhealth or weight problems.Enjoy these simple and gentle classes at yourpace, and enjoy a cup of tea with us afterwards.

Richmond History GroupHeld on 2nd Wednesday of each month. No cost,Next meeting Wednesday 9th June 4 - 5pmHistory Group meets to share resources andresearch items of Richmond's heritage. TheRichmond Room, a resource room with displays,magazines and items of interest is in the processof being set up at Avebury. These resources willbe available to the public at no charge.

For further information about facilities andclasses etc. please contact:Lesley McMillanCommunity development WorkerPh 942-5615

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Great Asian diet for weight loss: eat onlywhat you can pick up with one chopstick

Richmond Kindergarten Band1934

(Red & White Uniforms)Outside Methodist Church Hall Stanmore Rd

Front Row L - RPeter Muschamp, Keith Stamler, Ted Harrall,Ken Sears, Desmond Cohen.Back Row L - RJim Quickenden, Lindsay Ashoff, Noel Gibson,? ?(If anybody can identify the last two R/H backrow we would love to hear from you)Richmond kindergarten celebrated its 75thJubilee in 1997 and is one of the oldest inChristchurch. In 1 936 it was relocated to its

at 41 NoAAonR.oad.

The RWMC a MSA was formed in 1888. Manymen worked hard and long in the early years andgave financial assistance to keep the club goingthrough hard times. Just after the turn of thecentury it was not unusual for members to have a"tarpaulin muster" to raise the cash for the nextround of refreshments.

These were the days of prohibition orders whenpeople could legally be stopped drinking. TheRWMC tabled a rule allowing any member againstwhom a prohibition order had been taken out to bere-admitted after the order had been expired fortwelve months.

tfash HouseHair & Beauty Studio^Relocated to 335 Stanmore Rd|Previously "Shop One"!ph 389-4858* Jenny & Janna look forward to seeing you for

your hair, nails & beauty therapy requirements*New sunbed available

Phill

Unemployment Downby 200 in 1 Year in

RichmondBy Tim Barnett MP for ChristchurchCentral

It's great to have some tangible and someobviously good local news to report. Manywill know that the current unemploymentrate in New Zealand is low. It is 4.3%,. thefourth lowest across the OECD. That iswell below the average of 6.9%- our majortrading partners have significantly higherunemployment, including the UK (4.8%),Japan (5.0%), the United States (5.6%)and Australia (5.9%).

'The employment statistics havelrnprovedgreatly, including the numbers of peopleinto work- up 61,000 since April 2003 andup 17,000 since December 2003. Sincethe Labour-led Government was electedfour years ago, the number of Kiwis in workhas grown by 193,000. This Governmentis rightly committed to a long-term plan toensure that every New Zealander makes acontribution to our nation.

In the Richmond area, the Work andIncome figures show that successnationally has been translated locally. Atthe end of April 2003, Stanmore Work andIncome office had 699 unemployed people

ChristchurchCentral'sMember ofParliament

Level 3,103 Worcester Street, PO Box 13 295, ChristchurchPhone:033778840 Fax:033664770 Cell:0274570809E Mail: tim@timbamett.org.nz Intemetwww.timbamett.org.nz

on their register and in May 2004 that figurehad dropped to 517. Last year they had 112people who had been unemployed for over3-5 years and in May 2004 they only had45 people in that category. My electorateoffice has a strong relationship with thisoffice and they are to be congratulated ontheir wonderful successes.

Now the challenge is to help support peopleon Invalids Benefit into paid work. And themoney saved -which exceeds $150,000 perweek in the last year, just from that office isnow going to great new approaches.

A good example is an initiative designedto ensure young-people-are not at risk ofdeveloping poor employment attitudes,providing all 15 to 19 year olds with a kickstart to their working lives. It is estimatedthat at any one point in time that between10 to 17 per cent of those aged between 15and 19 (or approximately 27,000 to 45,000young people) do not enrol in tertiary studyor get a job after leaving school. This newmeasure is designed to ensure that, by2007, all 15-19 year olds will be engagedin appropriate education, training, work orother options which will lead to their longterm economic independence and well-being.

Richmond booms when people are in paidwork. This is one of those periods.

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Another month has swept past and it has beenvery busy. We have had our first Board of Trusteesmeeting with our new Board members and wewould like to congratulate Mike Savage taking onthe awesome task as our new Chairperson.

Annie has recently returned from Rarotonga,where she discovered from tamariki who value thesimple things, like textbooks, pencils,paper etc.We truly take these tools of the trade for granteddon't we!

Matua Ruawhitu attended the Maori QueensCoronation celebrations this month and waspresented with a carved Tokotoko (walking stick)for all the unseen, unspoken work that he does forhis Iwi (tribe)Tainui in the wider community. Wetoo would like to

Ka man te wehiAlly joined the Hikoi as part of the South Island

contingent and had an awesome experience thatwill be with her for the rest of her life.

On Thursday 20 May Kararaina, Brendan,Liam, Joshua and I went to the Zones held atthe Winsor Pony Club. The course was 2kmlong. There were more than 200 children. We allhad fun. It was hardwhen we had to jump over big logs, go up hillsand jump down things. Janet took us in her van,it was lots of fun. I hope we get to go next year.Janet and Tristan encouraged us every step oftheway.

(By Gloria)

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The Richmond Community News is published monthly by Avebury House Community Trust, 9 Eveleyn Couzins Ave, Richmond, Chrislchurch.Telephone 942-5615 or E-mail avebury@paradise.net.uz.