THUR 29.11.12 - WED 05.12.12 FREE EVERYONE READS THE WANAKA SUN The only question regarding the next time the Wanaka CBD is flooded is ‘when’ according to many local retailers. Not ‘if’, but ‘when’. Last week more than 60 flood-prone businesses were visited by QLDC emergency management officer Jon Mitchell and Otago Regional Council hazard analyst Kirsty Morris. “Climate change research says we should expect more significant flood events,” Jon said. “We are already seeing that trend occurring.” Floodwaters lapped over Ardmore Street three times in the 1990s and the chance of the same happening in the next decade is 40 percent. The 1999 flood was the second biggest in Wanaka’s recorded history, with the worst flood occurring in 1878. The town flooded only once in the 100 years following the 1878 flood, but in the last 40 years it has flooded four times. “It’ll definitely happen again and there’s nothing we can do about it,” Jim & Libby’s co-owner Jim McRae said. “I’m not worried. We’ve got insurance now.” Another business owner, Hideo Irie who has Green Grove Gifts and Crafts on the corner of Ardmore and Helwick streets, had insurance in 1999, but doesn’t now. “The insurance company wouldn’t cover us after 1999,” he said. “I did find one which would, but the excess was going to be $25,000. That was about the cost of what we lost last time - so it means nothing. I try to believe1999 was a one-in-100-years flood and there won’t be another one in my lifetime.” Hairdresser Alice Townsend has taken insurance for flooding. “That tripled our premiums,” she said. “But I am worried about a flood. Big time,” Alice has two shops on the waterfront part of Ardmore Street. “We put our power points half way up the wall in case of floods,” she said. Brochures handed out by the council said in the event of flooding sandbagging stations will be set up in the CBD. It states: “Although council contractors and volunteers will assist with sandbagging on a priority basis, retailers are encouraged to take the initiative to sandbag their own premises.” John McTaggert who owns Black Peak Gelato is not taking any chances. He has 1000 sandbags on pallets at home, ready for a flood. “I haven’t got any insurance,” he said. “I can’t afford it. The visit from the council people was useful. They asked how many people we would need to evacuate and stuff like that. But we’ll wait and see what actually happens.” Jon Mitchell said the most important thing businesses can do is to be prepared. Ground floor businesses should use tiles and hard walls rather than carpet and gibboard to ensure they can withstand water going through them. “They also need plans on how they can get their stock out quickly,” he said. “Most Wanaka businesses are already well prepared.” He said the council now has an extensive plan in place and has learnt a lot of lessons from earlier floods. These include the ability to close down sewerage systems and good communication systems with the ORC and the Wanaka Chamber of Commerce, so businesses get as much warning as possible regarding potential floods. Paper Plus manager and Chamber of Commerce member Chris Lumsden said he is glad flood planning is better than it was in 1999. “We had no warning of that flood,” he said. “I was here until three in the morning sandbagging. The water came in under the floor and it stayed in the shop for a week. The sun came out and it turned into a steam bath. Heaps of books were ruined.” Chris said after the 1999 flood he joined the Wanaka Chamber of Commerce and got involved in making a flood protection plan. “I hope the council is going to do a good job this time,” he said. “I haven’t read their brochures yet.” inside: PAGE 4 PAGE 15 PHOTO: WANAKA.TV sun classifieds rental listings CAROLINE HARKER PAGE 5 Putting verse into the universe Volunteer recognition PAGE 2 Protection for plants PAGE 9 Hobbit fever hits Wanaka There’s a flood coming... It’ll definitely happen again and there’s nothing we can do about it. Mountain bikers and walkers have been enjoying the new Newcastle Track, which goes down the true left of the Clutha from Albert Town to the Red Bridge, for a week or two now, but it’s not being officially opened until next Saturday (December 8). See story page 3. to open New track
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The only question regarding the next time the Wanaka CBD is flooded is ‘when’ according to many local retailers. Not ‘if’, but ‘when’.
Last week more than 60 flood-prone businesses were visited by QLDC emergency management officer Jon Mitchell and Otago Regional Council hazard analyst Kirsty Morris.
“Climate change research says we should expect more significant flood events,” Jon said. “We are already seeing that trend occurring.”
Floodwaters lapped over Ardmore Street three times in the 1990s and the chance of the same happening in the next decade is 40 percent.
The 1999 flood was the second biggest in Wanaka’s recorded history, with the worst flood occurring in 1878. The town flooded only once in the 100 years following the 1878 flood, but in the last 40 years it has flooded four times.
“It’ll definitely happen again and there’s nothing we can do about it,” Jim & Libby’s co-owner Jim McRae said. “I’m not worried. We’ve got
insurance now.” Another business owner, Hideo Irie
who has Green Grove Gifts and Crafts on the corner of Ardmore and Helwick streets, had insurance in 1999, but doesn’t now. “The insurance company wouldn’t cover us after 1999,” he said. “I did find one which would, but the excess was going to be $25,000. That was about the cost of what we lost last time - so it
means nothing. I try to believe1999 was a one-in-100-years flood and there won’t be another one in my lifetime.”
Hairdresser Alice Townsend has taken insurance for flooding. “That tripled our premiums,” she said. “But I am worried about a flood. Big time,” Alice has two shops on the waterfront part of Ardmore Street. “We put our power points half way up the wall in case of floods,” she said.
Brochures handed out by the council said in the event of flooding sandbagging
stations will be set up in the CBD. It states: “Although council contractors and volunteers will assist with sandbagging on a priority basis, retailers are encouraged to take the initiative to sandbag their own premises.”
John McTaggert who owns Black Peak Gelato is not taking any chances. He has 1000 sandbags on pallets at home, ready for a flood. “I haven’t got
any insurance,” he said. “I can’t afford it. The visit from the council people was useful. They asked how many people we would need to evacuate and stuff like that. But we’ll wait and see what actually happens.”
Jon Mitchell said the most important thing businesses can do is to be prepared. Ground floor businesses should use tiles and hard walls rather than carpet and gibboard to ensure they can withstand water going through them. “They also need plans on how they can
get their stock out quickly,” he said. “Most Wanaka businesses are already well prepared.”
He said the council now has an extensive plan in place and has learnt a lot of lessons from earlier floods. These include the ability to close down sewerage systems and good communication systems with the ORC and the Wanaka Chamber of Commerce, so businesses get as much warning as possible regarding potential floods.
Paper Plus manager and Chamber of Commerce member Chris Lumsden said he is glad flood planning is better than it was in 1999.
“We had no warning of that flood,” he said. “I was here until three in the morning sandbagging. The water came in under the floor and it stayed in the shop for a week. The sun came out and it turned into a steam bath. Heaps of books were ruined.”
Chris said after the 1999 flood he joined the Wanaka Chamber of Commerce and got involved in making a flood protection plan. “I hope the council is going to do a good job this time,” he said. “I haven’t read their brochures yet.”
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There’s a flood coming...
It’ll definitely happen again and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Mountain bikers and walkers have been enjoying the new Newcastle Track, which goes down the true left of the Clutha from Albert Town to the Red Bridge, for a week or two now, but it’s not being officially opened until next Saturday (December 8).
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A national competition r a t i n g t h e t o p 1 0 1 New Zealand tourism experiences and products has ranked pineapple lumps at number 60 with Wanaka entries missing out completely. The travel website of the Automobile Association started asking for online votes in June after approaching regional tourism organisations to nominate a range of products and services unique to their area. The entries were put on their website and viewers were asked to vote for their
favourite items.An eclectic mix of results
was released last week ranging from national parks, commercial tourism operations and farmers’ markets to pineapple
lumps and pavlova (98).“I don’t think it’s bang
on,” Lake Wanaka Tourism general manager James Helmore said. “I was just surprised to see who made the list.” Wanaka put forward “40 or 50”
nominations, but with the town’s low population base areas like Taranaki had a big advantage in promoting their entries, he said.
James said the figures
for the year ending in June showed Wanaka had an increase of 22 percent for visitors in commercial accommodation which raised questions about the list. “It doesn’t reflect what the domestic market
is doing.” The original “must do”
list was published six years ago, which featured some Wanaka products such as Puzzling World and cross country skiing but was
dominated by publicly accessed outdoor areas such as beaches and parks. This year AA received 1600 entries with a total of 280,000 votes featuring a much higher proportion of commercial operations.
Some new categories were also introduced including “kiwi kai”.
The highest ranking Otago attraction was the central Otago Rail Trail (5) followed by the Clyde historic precinct (44).
On its website the AA states it is ranked as New Zealand’s top travel site for domestic and total visitor traffic with 26 million page impressions for 2011, an average of 6639 unique browsers daily and more than $12 million worth of domestic room nights booked using its reservation search engine.
An Environment Court ruling protecting native plants on property privatised through the tenure review process was described as “a brilliant decision” by local Forest & Bird committee member Anne Steven (pictured). The ruling applies to the Waitaki district. In the Central Otago district similar indigenous plants have no protection, and in the Queenstown Lakes district land it is already protected by regulations.”
“The new ruling means the remnant native plant communities you drive through on both sides of the road at the bottom of the Lindis Pass around the Ahuriri River (going north) now have a much stronger level of protection,” Anne said. This land is part of the Killermont Station outwash plains and contains communities of short tussock grasslands, mat plants and rare spring annuals. Many of the outwash plains in the MacKenzie Basin have been earmarked for large scale irrigation and dairying.
Forest and Board took the Waitaki District Council and Federated Farmers to the Environment Court to get an exemption which applied to land privatised through the tenure review process overturned. The court found the exemption did not achieve the council’s district plan objectives or the sustainable m a n a g e m e n t p u r p o s e o f
the RMA.“These tussock lands are part
of this country’s natural heritage – that’s why it’s used as a location for so many movies and TV commercials – and many other species there are found almost nowhere else in New Zealand or the world,” Forest and Bird solicitor Sally Gepp said.
In the Queenstown Lakes area if people want to clear more than half a hectare of native vegetation, including kanuka, manuka and bracken, they need to get consent. Anne said this applies to the uncultivated short
tussock grassland on parts of the Cooper property which is being converted to dairying (between Hawea and Luggate).
However areas with native vegetation in the Central Otago district, including both sides of the Clutha south of Sandy Point, remain exempt from clearance rules. “There are extensive grey shrublands and areas of kanuka and olearia there, particularly on the west side of the river,” Anne said. Forest and Bird lost a court case against the Central Otago council in the mid 1990s.
Anne said district plan land
clearance rules are vital and fundamental to the protection of significant indigenous vegetation. “The key message of the Environment Court decision is that tenure review does not protect all significant inherent values especially in contested low altitude lands,” she said.
Local properties currently in the process of tenure review include Mount Grand, Mount Burke, Robrosa and Minaret Peaks.
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No excuse to text and drivePolice are focusing on drivers using mobile phones while driving this week in a nationwide blitz which coincides with the anniversary of the introduction of legislation banning mobile phone use while driving and to remind drivers of the risk associated with distraction while driving. “We are now several years down the track, we don’t see any excuses for people still failing to comply with this legislation. We will be taking a very firm approach and police will be out nationwide doing their best to impress upon drivers how serious we are about this issue.” Superintendent Carey Griffiths, national manager- road policing said.
M o r e b o a t i n g a n d longer days mean more chance of the invasive l a g a r o s i p h o n a n d didymo spreading in our waterways and the public is being asked to join in the battle.
Sunlight, especially in shallow areas of the lake, accelerates the growth of lagarosiphon and the increased numbers of water users help spread i t , O t a g o R e g i o n a l C o u n c i l r e g i o n a l services director Jeff Donaldson said.
“ W e a r e a s k i n g boaties moving between waterways to check, clean and dry all equipment t h a t h a s c o m e i n t o
contact with river or lake water – particularly boots and anchor wells.”
Didymo is another troublemaking alga which can cause problems in waterways at this time of the year, including forming massive blooms
i n s t r e a m s , r i v e r s and lakes.
Jeff said this pest can be spread by a single drop of water.
“Even if you can’t see it , you could be spreading it.”
L a k e W a n a k a i s considered a particularly important body of water to manage as the Clutha River is the source for L a k e D u n s t a n a n d
Roxburgh.W a t e r a b s o r b e n t
materials such as boots also need to be soaked for a few minutes to allow thorough saturation.
Following the cleaning procedures would help slow the spread of all freshwater pests like didymo and lagarosiphon throughout South Island waterways and help w i t h t h e l a k e w e e d management programme planned for the summer he said.
Even if you can’t see it, you could be spreading it.
The Upper Clutha Tracks Trust official opening of the Newcastle Track is on Saturday December 8 at the Albert Town end of the track by t h e H a w e a R i v e r swing bridge. After the formalities people will be encouraged to cycle or walk the track down to the Red Bridge, with the added incentive of a sausage sizzle at the end - at the new car park on Kane Road just north of the bridge.
The new 12km track is named after a settlement called Newcastle which
was planned for and surveyed opposite Albert Town on the other side of the Clutha River, but never developed.
T h e n e w t r a c k creates a ‘loop track’ for people who can now use the new track in combination with the Upper Clutha track on the other side of the river.
“The track enhances public access to the Clutha,” Tracks Trust chairperson Tim Dennis said. “It’s constructed to a lesser standard than our other tracks
and provides more of a challenge for walkers and mountain bikers.”
The project has had financial support from the Otago Community T r u s t , t h e L i o n Foundation, the Walking Access Commission and the Queenstown Community Trust.
The track was formed by the local Department of Conservation with help from contractor John Sutton on a section through bluffs at the southern end. It will b e m a i n t a i n e d b y Bike Wanaka.
Pollution fineA complaint about cattle damaging the lakebed and a riverbed on the Glendhu Bay end of the Millennium Track has resulted in three $500 infringement fines for the stock owner. The Otago Regional Council
investigated the complaint in September after pugging on the track from cattle was reported by a member of the public.
The fines were for one instance of damage to the lakebed and two of damage to a riverbed, ORC compliance officer Peter Kelliher said.
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A birthday to rememberW a n a k a t e e n a g e r L a c h l a n “ L o c h y ” W i l l i a m s o n h a d a birthday he’ll remember thanks to the generosity of a local flight-seeing business. Lochy, who turned 19 last week, spends most of his day in a wheelchair due to a degenerative motor disease called Paraparesis. But for an hour last Thursday he enjoyed a view from above as pilot Sam Wohler from Southern Alps Air took him for a tour.
“Lochy doesn’t talk but he really enjoyed it. The smile on his face during the flight was pretty special,” his carer, Jonathan Homer,
said. Jonathan has been working with Lochy since Easter with the two communicating using body language and what has become an understanding between the two as their friendship has developed, Jonathan said. A real “sports nut” Lochy was born in Australia, and has remained loyal to the Queensland Reds rugby team. He and Jonathan went to several World Cup games and also go to the movies. “He just wants to get out into the community,” Jonathan said.
The experience has prompted Jonathan to follow up on his teaching qualification with a diploma in special education next year.
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Roads safer overallRegional results in the updated KiwiRAP (an internationally recognised road assessment programme) show overall road safety improvements in the last five years on Otago and Southland state highways. KiwiRAP identifies state highways where crash risks are highest, to better target safety improvements.On SH6 from Cromwell to Queenstown the number of serious crashes has decreased from 29 during 2002 to 2006 to nine during 2007 to 2011: the number of fatal crashes has remained at two. The SH8 from Omarama to Cromwell, including the SH8A, decreased to 17 serious crashes but increased from one to two fatal crashes. The Haast to Wanaka road (SH6) has shown an increase in serious crashes from 17 to 19 while fatal crashes remain the same at three.NZ Transport Agency Otago-Southland state highways manager Ian Duncan said overall the results are encouraging. The percentage of state highways in the two regions in the high and medium–high risk bands have fallen 58 percent in the last ten years.
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F o u r W a n a k a p o e t s have been published i n t h e N e w Z e a l a n d Poetry Society’s 2012 Anthology, Building A T i m e M a c h i n e , w i t h three receiving special c o m m e n d a t i o n s i n the society’s annual competition.
MAC student 12-year-old Phoebe Young was highly commended for her poem Forest, and her classmate Finn Mueller also had a poem selected for publication.
Finn said he doesn’t usually like writing. “I like building models of battle scenes.” Phoebe, on the other hand, loves to write and is working on a chapter
book in her spare time. “It’s about a girl called Pine and a boy called Kaz. Their town is in ruins because of a war, so they are in a forest and heaps of things happen to them in there.”
T h e o t h e r W a n a k a winners, both teachers at MAC, were Jilly O’Brien (pictured with Phoebe and Finn) and Laura Williamson. Jilly was commended for her poem Education and also had a poem called Cleaner selected for the anthology. Laura was commended for The Blues which judge Harry Ricketts said, “cleverly but also poignantly (there’s no cure for the blues) set two columns of the same 20 lines parallel to each other but running in reverse order.”
Untitled by Finn Mueller
The trees rustle the wolvesHowl the humans shout it’s too hard it’s too hard to concentrate…
Forest by Phoebe Young
We walked down the stony pathway,Ferns popped up in patches,Moss clung to the trees like monkeysWet soil floated up my nose.
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Volunteer recognition dayC o m m u n i t y v o l u n t e e r s i n C e n t r a l O t a g o w i l l have some of their efforts recognised next Wednesday as part of Internat ional Volunteers day.
The Volunteering Central project funded by Central Lakes Trust has been operating for more than 18 months and made more than 200 placements in the area, coordinator Heather McLintock said.
The projects in the Upper Clutha that volunteers are involved with include fixing toys at the Toy Library, helping with the Salvation Army store, visiting the elderly, assisting the Cancer Society, tree planting
and helping with the school holiday programme, such as the mask-making project pictured here.
“We support many not-for-profit organisations who rely on volunteers and help people who want to volunteer, find meaningful and fun roles in their community,” Heather said. “Volunteering changes lives. The benefits are far reaching, affecting everyone involved – volunteers, beneficiaries and the wider community.”
She said Volunteer ing Central is encouraging more people to take an active role in the community by providing a link between prospective volunteers and community services.
Cromwell to host wine tourism workshop
Tourism Central Otago (TCO) and the Central Otago Winegrowers Association (COWA) are holding a wine tourism workshop in Cromwell next Tuesday. “The day will include informative presentations on topics such as who and what is wine tourism, the Central Otago wine story, business opportunities and how we can work together for mutual benefit, regulatory requirements when setting up a wine tourism-related business and what makes a good wine tourism product,” Tourism Central Otago tourism manager product development Michelle Ormsby said. The workshop is aimed at tourism operators in the wider Central Otago community, with the purpose to raise awareness of the importance of wine tourism and the benefits of collaboration. Speakers include representatives from COWA and Central Otago Pinot Noir Ltd, TCO, CODC and successful wine tourism operators. Dr Joanna Fountain, a senior lecturer in tourism management at Lincoln University, will also speak on how to engage successfully in wine tourism.
High Country Rescue: reviewThe opening episode of High Country Rescue which screened on TV One on Monday was like a who’s who of Wanaka Land Search and Rescue.
L o c a l p o l i c e m e n A a r o n Nicholson and Mike Johnston, helicopter pilot Nigel Gee and mountaineer Davie Robertson were all part of the team which set off to rescue a climber who had fallen off Mount Aspiring. Unfortunately the climber had died, but the programme told his story with compassion as well
as capturing the drama of the situation. The sequences flying over Aspiring were almost as exciting as being there.
The second rescue featured local man Jonny Young who was seriously injured when he came off his mountain bike in Sticky Forest. The programme captured the drama without being voyeuristic despite the injured man’s extreme pain. Fortunately this rescue had a happy ending with Jonny flown to Dunedin hospital where he made a full recovery.
Shots of debriefing scenes once
the dramas were over added insight to the work of the Search and Rescue team. The eight part series also includes Te Anau LandSAR teams although we didn’t see them this week. Episodes still to come feature “experienced climbers trapped by fierce conditions, overseas tourists accidentally wandering into the bush, local adventurers and unprepared backpackers going missing, school classes trapped by rising rivers and skilled professionals getting into serious bother”. It’s good to see our local heroes acknowledged on the small screen.
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On Tuesday November 22, Wanaka Toastmasters members competed in a local competition to go through to the “Toastmasters Area C2” district competition in Queenstown next year. Club members had two events to enter which were judged by local members and visiting Senior Toastmaster Graham Miller from Toowoomba NSW.
Kat Harper, Ben Taylor and Matthew Kennedy presented five to seven minute prepared speeches in the first event ‘international prepared speech’. Ben won with his well-prepared and presented speech titled ‘the best holiday’: a humorous contrast between a hot sandy beach holiday with too much buffet food and lounging around in sweltering heat versus the outdoor freezing beauty of a high alpine adventure, conquering mountains and carving up fresh powder.
The second competition was the ‘two minute table topic’ where locals Bill Henderson, Alec Saunders, Jamie Roy, Merryn Johnston, Bryce Dunlop, Maggie Curteis and Steve Butel were presented with an unknown topic. This brought out the humour and experience of each contestant. Jamie won
the title and will progress to the district competition.
Craig Capstick, who founded the Wanaka Club, said the twice yearly competitions are a great way for club members to see how much they have improved. “Winners of each competition have the chance to progress to regional, national and then international speaking
competitions,” he said.The group meets every second
and fourth Thursday of the month and he said “each fortnight, small steps are taken by club members in Wanaka. Our club is a friendly, supportive and fun environment to help those who want to be better communicators and improve their public speaking
and leadership skills.” Local club members Merryn
Johnston (3rd in table topics), Jamie Roy (winner table topics), Ben Taylor (winner prepared speech), Maggie Curteis (2nd in table topics), Matthew Kennedy (3rd in prepared speech), Kat Harper (2nd in prepared speech) are pictured at the event.
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End to MovemberWanaka’s Moustache Bash takes place tomorrow in the Bullock Bar to celebrate the end of Movember and raise awareness of men’s health. Moustaches will be judged for the prize-giving of the titles Man of Movember 2012, Best Mo in Character, Mr. Mo Health and Team Movember 2012.Today (Thursday) all men can avail themselves of a free health check-up (blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes) from 4pm to 6pm in front of Ali Babas.
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Appliance replacementThe Otago Regional Council still has Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) funding for its Clean Heat Clean Air appliance replacement programme.Residents in the Air Zone 1 towns of Alexandra, Arrowtown, Clyde, and Cromwell are eligible to apply for a subsidised compliant heating appliance replacement if they have a non-compliant appliance which they agree to have decommissioned or removed by ORC contractors and if the home’s ceiling and underfloor insulation complies with the National Building Standard.More than 1000 heating appliances have been replaced since the ORC programme began in 2005.
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Miners’ ballOrganiser of the Miners’ Ball Martin Curtis said it will be a fantastic night of traditional celtic, colonial and old-time dancing to the music of some of the country’s finest musicians. “Even if you are a non-dancer, the music will be great to listen to, as the line-up is awesome.” The band includes New Zealand’s finest traditional accordion player Barry McDonald from Christchurch; Dunedin musicians Adrian Higgins (banjo and mandolin), Marcus Turner (fiddle); and Steve Barkman (guitar), as well as multi-instrumentalist Bob Bickerton from Nelson. Martin was a dance caller with former local band Snowgrass, which included the above musicians, and he will call each dance during the music. Tickets are still available for the ball which will take place on Saturday December 8 at the Lake Wanaka Centre.
Third generation Luggate farmer Stan (Stanley Allan) Kane died last week, leaving behind his wife Elsie, 98, five children and numerous grand- and great-grandchildren.
Stan’s grandfather John Kane bought Grandview in 1885 and it has been in the family ever since, farmed by Stan’s parents Allan and Jean, then Stan and Elsie, followed by their son Colin and wife Pam, and now by fifth generation Kane farmers Stan’s grandson Paul and his wife Amy.
Stan’s father John was killed by a bull when Stan was four years old and his mother ran the farm until he took over after her death in 1941. He was 21 years old. He married Elsie (nee Marett) two years later and they ran the farm until 1981. When Stan took over the farm he had 909 sheep and an extensive cropping operation which was made a lot easier when he bought the farm’s first tractor - an International Model
M. With the purchase of more land in 1958 the number of sheep went up to 1688 and Stan doubled that number when he introduced irrigation ten years later. He was known as a progressive farmer and was one of the first in the region to irrigate, pumping water out of the Clutha and spreading it over the 700 hectare farm by wild flooding and border dyke irrigation. He won the JS Hunt shield for farming two years in a row.
Stan was well known as a community man and this was recognized in 1977 when both he and Elsie received Queen’s Service Jubilee medals. He was involved in numerous organisations, often as chair or secretary, including the Young F a r m e r s C l u b a n d Federated Farmers. He did 20-year stints on both the Hawea Rabbit Board and the Vincent County Council and was a member of the A&P Society including two years in the chair. He was very proud to have attended every
Wanaka A&P show in its 75 year history.
Outside the farming world, he was on both the Luggate Domain Board and the Hawea Cemetery Trust for 45 years, chairman of the Luggate Hall Committee for ten years, and on the Upper Clutha Presbyterian Board of Managers for 60 years.
When Stan and Elsie retired to Wanaka he had time to pursue his passion for history. He was a founding member of the Upper Clutha Historical Records Society in 1985 and chairman for 20 years. He was very proud of the society’s dedicated room in the Wanaka Library.
Stan was involved in writing ‘Wanaka and Surrounding District’ in 1990, and in 1991 he wrote ‘Luggate – a story of a district and its people from 1860’.
He also wrote histories of the Hawea Rabbit Board, the Luggate lucerne f a c t o r y , h a y m a k i n g in the district and in 1995 he wrote a family history ‘Kane Family and
Grandview Farm’. Stan was very interested in genealogy and one of his first projects on retiring was organising a large Kane family reunion in 1983. Both his late sisters married farmers and remained in the district. Edna became a Lethbridge and Connie a Perriam.
Of his five children Colin lives in Wanaka, Allan at Glenfoyle farm near Tarras, Heather (Wallace) lives in Frankton and sons Geoffrey and Neil live in the North Island.
More than two hundred people farewelled Stan at his funeral on Monday. He was 95 when he died.
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Courtyard house wins award
Seven projects have received awards in the 2012 Southern Architecture Awards, including a Lake Hawea courtyard house. Architects and clients doing more with less was a theme of the 2012 Southern Architecture Awards, convenor of the Awards jury, Dunedin architect Niko Young said. Glamuzina Paterson Architects used seconds bricks coated in a thin skim of plaster to design a clever and dextrous house at the Lake Hawea Courtyard House, the Awards jury said. “The local vernacular is turned inside out and new ways are found to deal with climatic extremes. The house and its sheltering walls ride the rolling site at the foot of Mount Maude like a boat in a medium swell.”
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Wanaka Hobbit fans are h a v i n g f u n i n G a r r i c k Cameron’s ‘hobbit cave’ at Cinema Paradiso. Pictured here in the cave are Eliza Rogers, 12, Maude Rogers, 9 and Ngaio Macleod, 10. L o c a l s c a n h a v e t h e i r photograph taken in the cave
along with a ‘round gold thing and a certain creature in the background’.
Wanaka winemaker Sarah-Kate Dineen is thrilled her Maude Pinot Gris 2012 was chosen for the celebrities to drink on the red carpet at the world premier of
The Hobbit in Wellington last night . “I t ’s nice to have ‘ the r ight people’ drinking our wine and it confirms we’re heading in the r ight direct ion,” she said. “Unfortunately they didn’t want us there t o o . ” S a r a h - K a t e m a y
have missed the premier but she has met Orlando Bloom. “He came to visit our winery in the Hunter [Australia] and had lunch with us,” she said. “He’s gorgeous. Better looking in real life. Down to earth and lovely.”
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If you have information on any crimes call 0800CRIMESTOPPER (0800555111).
Shoplifting, broken fences and an uncaring tractor driverPolice are looking for information on thefts and vandalism over the past week and asking people to lock their vehicles. Clothing was stolen from a washing line in Albert Town, a scooter was stolen from Kahu Youth, a mountain bike stolen from an alleyway in town and police received a report of a vehicle stolen from a car park in town, which was later located in a residential street. A 51-year-old Wanaka resident was also arrested for shoplifting from New World.
An incident of wilful damage in Kiromiko Crescent occurred with a gap forced in fencing to allow a vehicle to drive through to go four-wheel driving in the forestry block. Wearing a seatbelt reportedly saved a woman from more serious injuries after she rolled her vehicle on McKay Road. The fire brigade removed her from the vehicle but she reported a tractor had driven around it while she was still trapped inside and it continued on.
Another vehicle crash was reported at the intersection of Link Way and Anderson Road, where a driver slowly collided with a cyclist, knocking them off their bike and police would like to hear from witnesses. Police report it is the third cyclist struck by a vehicle since October.
Forgetful book borrowers with fines owing can receive some early Christmas cheer and provide for the needy, thanks to the return of an initiative from local libraries.Beginning next Monday all local libraries are holding a week-long amnesty where borrowers can have $5 in overdue fines wiped in return for a can of food for charity.The terms of the amnesty stipulate that only overdue fines for items that have been returned are eligible for the waiver and any cans of food presented must be within their use-by date and without rust or dents.The amnesty runs from Monday December 3 to Saturday December 8.The charities chosen to benefit from the amnesty are individual to each area. Queenstown and Arrowtown have chosen Happiness House, while the Upper Clutha libraries will be donating to Wanaka Community Networks.
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An early season local rodeo last weekend was another successful outing for the club, held at its new Albert Town site. The event was purposely kept low key with very little publicity as organisers wanted to allow the recent grass planting on the spectators’ embankment to get established in time for the major event early in the New Year.
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We have a most interesting question - Where are the neW parking areas going to be for the building beside bullock creek?
sorry mr plod but the john Wayne hats look ridiculous unless you’re riding a horse.
can the people With the huge intimidating dog please keep it aWay from kids` events/sports, bus stops etc. i don’t care if it is on a lead, it frightens other children!!
please please charles court residence keep your dog in your yard, i do! a lot of dogs in the street and i am really sick of picking up your doggy doos off my front laWn - thanks ;)
a little bit of tolerance Wouldn’t go astray Wanaka, hoW about you accept the other people Who live here, and accept the choices they make as people accept your right to make your oWn choices.
everyone kneW that Wanaka can’t support 7 days flight to christchurch but We do need the flight for at least 3x a Week, so you have same problem With timaru flight Why not split it betWeen tWo places.
bottom line is, everyone lives here for the same reason; because We love it. neither you nor anyone else has any greater or lesser right to be here. it’s called freedom, and people have put blood sWeat and tears into ensuring you have it!
shame there’s no vaccination for gullibility after reading responses to txts that are printed here. love it
i think it’s great our police force are super fit. Why Would We Want fat and boring coppers When so much of toWn is healthy. i see that they are here to enjoy their time off in paradise just like the rest of us.
those Who think the clutha river is a golf hole need to think again
joy has the poWer 2 open our hearts, remove fear, instil hope, and foster healing. a truly joyful person transmits energy 2 all around them. When We collectively start 2 feel joy, our ability 2 love each other expands enormously. from this place We can move toWard resolving differences betWeen groups of people and hopefully evolve 2 a level Where We feel compassion and care 4 all life on this planet.
vaccinations are like Wearing a seat belt in a car. it doesn’t mean you are not going to be in a crash but you are more protected than someone Who doesn’t have a seat belt. your injuries Won’t be as bad as the passenger With no seat belt.
it’s refreshing to see that We have finally ascertained Who is truly a local cant We all just respect each other raise our kids and enjoy this beautiful place We live in?
local, What is it? it’s a feeling! feeling at home and feeling accepted. acceptance may need 2 b earned nothing 2 do With time been here, nor With accent - “golly me” even a german one.
isn’t it great 2 see the splash of yelloW floWer on the albert toWn side of mt iron . sure makes interesting, an otherWise drab landscape.
to lady With broWn dog at outlet track. mum had broken hip & needed surgery in dunedin. We knoW it Was accident but perhaps u should keep better control of dog.
so you’re only a local if you’re arrogant enough to think that you’re a local but nobody else is?
How will Wanaka cope with another flood? We’ve been given a 40 percent chance of another flood like the one in 1999 happening in the next decade and regardless of your views on the reason for climate change, recent events around the world suggest that’s about right. The last time the main street was flooded there was a bit of drama. Wanaka was cut off, enthusiastic kayakers cracked windows and lakefront businesses could only watch and wonder when it was going to stop. Now people almost expect an extreme weather incident every year and they’re getting prepared. Some businesses have flood-proofed their premises by moving electrical outlets up the wall, others have filled sandbags on standby at home and others have bitten the bullet and paid out their bumped- up premiums. Now it’s time to wait and watch the weather. Shall we have a raffle? Perhaps we could ask members of the galactic council who were here last weekend at the Wild Hearts festival discussing the Earth’s ascension process. It couldn’t be any less reliable than the recent travel list of “101 must do” things in New Zealand which overlooked the many wonders of Wanaka in favour of the pineapple lump.
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If you are savvy with your housekeeping, make lists and use up all the odds and ends in the back of the fridge, you can reduce your food waste down to about 24kg per person per year of peelings, tea-bags and banana skins. This article is aimed at you folks out there who want to do the right thing with your food scraps, not throw them down the gurgler or into the festering hole
of a landfill. These methods are aimed purely at dealing with food scraps, not at making large amounts of compost. Wanaka Wastebusters is developing working models of all these systems in their yard, so pop down and have a look at them in action. Bokashi Buckets are available at cost from council offices (thanks to a QLDC subsidy). This simple two-bucket system deals with all food scraps including raw or cooked fish and meat. The biologically active compost Zing ‘pickles’ food scraps and then you
dig them into the garden, plus you can water with the biologically rich, liquid by-product.The Green Cone (pictured with Dr Compost) is big overseas, but is slow to catch on here. It is the perfect system for a busy non-gardening household or a holiday house and the ultimate in easy disposal of your food scraps. Situate in a garden setting, and put your food scraps in
whenever you want to. There is no end product, but the plants beside the bin will flourish. Compost Trenching: Nothing new here, dig a trench in your veggie garden. Every day put your scraps in a new part and cover with 15-20cm of soil. Leave a few weeks before planting.Earthworm Chutes: Get three wide pipes about 1m long, and drill plenty of 10mm holes in the bottom half of each pipe. Bury the bottom half of each pipe in your garden, cover the top with a lid and rotate your food scraps around the three pipes. You could
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Grass clippings, oh so many grass clippings....This is a bountiful time for making hot compost. Mix 50 percent grass clippings and manure, with 50 percent straw and shredded cardboard. Try putting your hand in that after a week, better still run some alkathene pipe through and create yourself an outdoor shower like the famous Frenchman Jean Pain did to supply his household with hot water all winter long.If you would rather throw all your grass clippings into a cold compost pile, add a layer of carbon (straw, shredded paper, cardboard) every 10-15 cm.
Use pea straw, lucerne or straw to mulch around your garden. Soil doesn’t like to be naked and the moisture will be sucked out of it on a hot day. You’ll get less weeds, and need to feed and water your plants less over time.
Hopefully the last of the frosts has passed, so you can plant out all your zucchinis, pumpkins, tomatoes, corn and all those frost-tender beauties.Try ye old Aztec Three Sisters Method. Beans grow up the corn, fixing nitrogen for the corn to use, with pumpkin growing down around the corn’s feet, keeping the weeds at bay and preventing moisture evaporating from the soil.
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use old 20l buckets, cut out the bottom and almost fully submerge, remember plenty of holes in the side. The earthworms will do all the work.The Hungry Bin is a chunky worm farm on wheels. It should be able to deal with an average-sized family’s food scraps (as can the other worm farms on the market). Just remember a few golden tips. 1. Worm farms take at least three months to get up to speed, so slow down on the feeding as the worm numbers build up. Over-feeding is the most common cause of worm farm failure. 2. Chop the food up, the smaller
the better. Place food next to (not on top of) the last lot of food to let the worms travel through the food. 3. Keep the worms warm over winter; move them inside or into a sunny spot, or cover the worm farm with a blanket or carpet. Q L D C s u b s i d i s e s polystyrene worm farms and the Earthmaker composting system; visit its website for more information.
Ben Elms (aka Dr Compost) gives advice and runs workshops as part of the Dr Compost project to encourage home composting and reduce waste, funded by Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Summer series startsOnline registration for this Sunday’s kids duathlon in Wanaka is “looking steady” according to More FM promotions manager Henry Youngman.“It’s a great day for the young people of this region who are so fortunate to grow up with an adventure playground in their backyard,” he said. “This is a fun and competitive way that we can encourage them to get out and participate.”Each age group category will compete over variable race lengths and a prize giving will follow. Race registration will be open until Sunday morning for the bike and run event which is the first in a series of four summer events being held in Wanaka, Queenstown, Cromwell and Alexandra.
Skeleton racer strugglesOn the fastest, most technical track in the world Wanaka’s Katharine Eustace had “two average runs” to leave her in 16th place on the third round of the World Cup skeleton circuit. “I was really hoping to do well here after my last two races,” she said. “I thought I had a better understanding of the track but training was a bit of a struggle.”Her team mate Ben Sandford, from Rotorua, placed tenth on the Whistler track. Ben was in eighth place after his first run but hit a wall in the technical section of the track and lost speed.World Cup skeleton racing circuit moves to Winterberg, Germany for the next race on December 7.
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Lake Hawea GoLf Re-suLts Sunday 25 No-vember: Stableford Men 1 R Johnston 40, 2 D Cos-tello 37, 3 C Hanson 36, 4 J Cotter 35 on c/b 5 K Vincent 35 on c/b. Ladies 1 B Stevenson 31. Senior Club Championship Fi-nal Rick Johnston bt Skip Johnston. Nearest the Pin R Johnston. Two’s R John-ston No.14. Birdie Nett Eagle D Costello and K Vincent No.18.
Swift 63.82% 2. Janette Gillies, Carole Turner 57.92% 3. East/West:- Joy Baxter, Barbara Water-worth 64.53% 1. Vivienne Christie, Pat Gray 60.12% 2. Marion Furneaux, Max Shepherd 57.63% 3. Fri-day Bridge 23 November: North/South:- Michael Chapman-Smith, Deirdre Lynch 63.89% 1. Noe-line Goldsbrough, Ena Leckie 55.95% 2. Mary Gibson-Collings, Sherril Harries 48.81% 3.East/West:- Carolyn Field, Bar-bara Thompson 59.52% 1. Mo Schofield, Heather Wellman 58.73% 2. Ruth Coghill, Annie Freeman 52.38% 3.
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2 x Funky leopard skin swivel armchairs. Very comfy. Sun faded. $80 for both. Ph 4431777
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WAnAKAfest, WilloWridge & Rotary Duck Race Prize $500, is as yet UNCLAIMED Orphaned Duck No: 1316, wanting to find a home! - Contact Rosie Ph 443 6566.
looKing for a skinny dipping option around Wanaka? Bare on the beach, skinny dipping is the healthy option. Free Beaches NZ is a family friendly organisation. Call George 0274961820 (no texts please) to find the best spot.
A WeeKend at The Rippon Hall, 8th & 9th dec. Wine specials, vineyard tours and mu-sic on terrace. From 2pm. All welcome !
BirthdAy PArties!! Hawea Playgroup is available 2 hire, only $30/4hrs. Great loca-tion with sandpit, trikes n toys galore. Call/txt Tina 021 021 45117.
Cheese MAKing class , learn to make your own ! With Katherine Mowbray 8th and 9th Dec at The Rippon Hall. Ph . 443 8084
don’t Miss Wanaka’s fabulous festive trio The Christmas Belles at Creek Cafe this Sunday 6pm. Acoustic harmony
gentle yogA. $10 Classes at 9 Tyndall St Wanaka. Mon, Wed 9.30AM. Prenatal Tues 7PM.Thurs Mums and Bubs 10AM. Jen 443.1672.
oPerA At Noon, 9th Dec. Classical opera arias, musical theatre and jazz. $45pp in-cludes nibbles and glass wine. Ph Rippon 4438084
PorK lovers - learn to make your own salami, sausages, bacon and hams. Pig in a Day workshop at The Rippon Hall , 15 & 16th dec. Ph 443 8084
riPPon vineyArd’s cellar door is open daily from 11am - 5pm daily as of Dec 1st. Cheese plates available.
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xMAs rACes Cromwell. Fly down with Wanaka Helicopters and delivered back by Yello from $249 pp. Call 034431085
xMAs trees! Have u suitably sized Xmas trees on your land...? Hawea Playgroup r looking for trees to collect 4 fundraiser, can u help? Please call Emily 021 984336
don’t Miss the Racers Edge Tri Demo Day this Saturday at 8am on the lake front at the Eastern end of the Red Buoy line.
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W a n a k a - b a s e d a d a p t i v e snowboarder Carl Murphy (left) has two gold medals from his first two qualifying races for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Racing two International Paralympic Committee (IPC) snowboard-cross events in the lower limb impaired category, Carl produced three of the fastest runs of the competition, his coach Adam Dooney said. Aucklander Byron Raubenheimer (right) had his first podium finish in the same event, getting a bronze medal on the second day of the competition.
The event was hosted last weekend by the indoor snow centre SnowWorld in Landgraaf, The Netherlands. The facility includes a 550m long snow- covered slope, 250m wide with three surface tows and a six-seater chairlift.
“Seeing two New Zealanders on the podium is always a good day,” Adam said.
Carl is proud of his performance in the first event of the season, attributing his success to “all the hard work in the gym and training with my coach Adam Dooney.
“After the second day of racing I am so happy I backed up my
results from yesterday. Not only by winning the gold but by how well I rode today and how focused I was on topping the podium. All three of my runs were clean and fast, posting the three quickest times of the day and my last run was the fastest of the whole two- day event,” Carl said.
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Byron. “He has worked extremely hard over the past year to get where he is and it’s great to see him get a podium result for his work,” Carl said.
The two will now travel back to their northern hemisphere base in Colorado for more training in preparation for the Olympic test event in Sochi, Russia in early 2013.
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The competition on court for the Wanaka Open will be the hottest line-up ever with confirmation of an elite American college team entering.More than a dozen players from the University of California’s men’s team are coming to New Zealand for a tour.Based at the Berkeley campus the team includes two Queenstown players, Riki and Ben McLachlan who are there on tennis scholarships.The team is currently ranked 14th in the U.S. intercollegiate competition and includes a member of Denmark’s Davis Cup team.The Wanaka Tennis Open starts on January 5. Pictured is Libby Scott in last year’s Wanaka Tennis Open women’s final.
