• Community board aendance rate, p3 •The other side of street art, p6-7 80 years on and still in love EMMA-JANE MCLENNAN Almost 80 years ago, a young Edna Noble was told by her mother that she couldn’t marry her sweetheart. She refused to obey her moth- er, and now 73 years later, she and that sweetheart – Gilbert Kessel – are still married. On Tuesday the couple, who live in a Halswell retirement home, celebrated their anniver- sary. Edna said not even curfew during the war years could sepa- rate the couple. “Isn’t it wonderful? We were really in love. We wouldn’t be without each other you know – even when the war was on and they said you’re not supposed to be out on the streets at a certain time of night, he’d still come down on his bike [to see me],” Edna Kessel said. The two met in the early 1940s, at a dance school close to Cathedral Square. The future Mrs Kessel had been going to classes with a girlfriend there, when she met Mr Kessel on the dance floor. In a Cinderella-type move – she had to leave him at 11pm to catch the tram home. “I looked ‘round and my girl- friend was going . . . so I had to leave him in the middle of the room. I was worried after that, that I might never see him again.” But at the very next dance, Mr Kessel was there. It was love at first sight for the two of them – but it was going to be two years before they could get married. First Mr Kessel was sent off to war, and sent back shortly after because of hearing damage he sustained while working with fighter planes. He was one of the only ones from his squadron to survive, Mrs Kessel said: “I was lucky to get him back.” Next came her mother – ada- mant she should give up Mr Kessel for the “nice boy down the road.” “I said no to that, but I had to wait until I was 21 to get mar- ried,” Mrs Kessel said. The two bought a nice home on Cashmere hill a few years later, and brought up three chil- dren there. They later moved into a re- tirement village. While Mr Kessel’s health is deteriorating, his wife is con- stantly by his side: “He can’t always hear what I’m saying, but I pat his hand and say to him ‘alright poppa.’ He seems to get the message.” STILL IN LOVE: Gilbert and Edna Kessel celebrated 73 years of marriage this week. Leſt: The couple’s wedding photo in 1942. 100% NZ Owned & Operated CLINIC PHONE Fendalton 03 351 3535 Halswell 03 322 4326 Rangiora 03 310 7355 Papanui 0800 333 606 Kaiapoi 0800 333 606 Ashburton 03 307 8949 ouse of earing OPEN 7 DAYS | TWO LOCATIONS 7D MANDEVILLE ST, OPP PLACEMAKERS PH 03 366 4166 DRESSMART HORNBY, MAIN SOUTH RD PH 03 344 5304 30% OFF RRP Western News Templeton, Islington, Hei Hei, Broomfield, Halswell, Oaklands, Westlake, Hornby, Wigram, Sockburn, Church Corner, Ilam, Russley, Hyde Park, Avonhead, Riccarton Park, Riccarton FREE MONDAY DECEMBER 21 2015 379 7100 Proudly locally owned and published by Star Media New Zealand Pigeon (Kereru) Award winning publishing group From the team at Western News & Star Media
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80 years on and still in loveEMMA-JANE MCLENNAN
Almost 80 years ago, a young Edna Noble was told by her mother that she couldn’t marry her sweetheart.
She refused to obey her moth-er, and now 73 years later, she and that sweetheart – Gilbert Kessel – are still married.
On Tuesday the couple, who live in a Halswell retirement home, celebrated their anniver-sary.
Edna said not even curfew
during the war years could sepa-rate the couple.
“Isn’t it wonderful? We were really in love. We wouldn’t be without each other you know – even when the war was on and they said you’re not supposed to be out on the streets at a certain time of night, he’d still come down on his bike [to see me],” Edna Kessel said.
The two met in the early 1940s, at a dance school close to Cathedral Square.
The future Mrs Kessel had
been going to classes with a girlfriend there, when she met Mr Kessel on the dance floor.
In a Cinderella-type move – she had to leave him at 11pm to catch the tram home.
“I looked ‘round and my girl-friend was going . . . so I had to leave him in the middle of the room. I was worried after that, that I might never see him again.”
But at the very next dance, Mr Kessel was there. It was love at first sight for the two of them – but it was going to be two years
before they could get married.First Mr Kessel was sent off to
war, and sent back shortly after because of hearing damage he sustained while working with fighter planes.
He was one of the only ones from his squadron to survive, Mrs Kessel said: “I was lucky to get him back.”
Next came her mother – ada-mant she should give up Mr Kessel for the “nice boy down the road.”
“I said no to that, but I had to
wait until I was 21 to get mar-ried,” Mrs Kessel said.
The two bought a nice home on Cashmere hill a few years later, and brought up three chil-dren there.
They later moved into a re-tirement village.
While Mr Kessel’s health is deteriorating, his wife is con-stantly by his side: “He can’t always hear what I’m saying, but I pat his hand and say to him ‘alright poppa.’ He seems to get the message.”
STILL IN LOVE: Gilbert and Edna Kessel celebrated 73 years of marriage this week. Left: The couple’s wedding photo in 1942.
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Neerlandia Choir’s Christmas Concert
Monday (today), 7pmGet into the festive spirit
with this free concert featuring guest artists Jonty Schmidt on the oboe and Benny Schmidt playing clarinet. A collection will be held for the Christchurch Resettlement Services. Free entry with refreshments served afterwards in the hall.
Phone Thea Konijn on 347 9173 for more information.
St Mary’s Anglican Church, 329 Halswell Rd.
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra: A Canterbury Christmas
Monday (today) 6.30pm
All the shopping’s done, the tree is decorated and the pres-ents are wrapped so what better way to relax and start the season than with the annual CSO Christmas Concert. The concert will set the scene perfectly with yuletide favourites and classi-cal gems such as excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and sing along carols O Come all ye Faithful.
Isaac Theatre Royal, adults
$35, concessions from $30,chil-dren, $15.
YMCA Carols by Candlelight
Thursday, 9-10pmThis is a free family event
celebrating Christmas with carol singing by candlelight on Christmas Eve. Carols, books and candles are available at the event, food and coffee vendors will be on site.
Latimer Square, free.
Spectrum Street Art FestivalFrom December 12 through to
April 17, 9.30 through to 5pm.Renowned local and interna-
tional street artists work will be on display at the YMCA for the street art festival. There are seven exhibition spaces on display and 10 blank city centre walls transformed into amazing works of arts.
Hereford St, at the YMCA Christchurch centre
ASB Tennis Canterbury Christmas Classic
December 19 to December 23
from 8.30am-5pm.The annual ASB Tennis
Canterbury Christmas Tourna-ment at Z Energy Wilding Park features grades from nine to 18s. Older age groups start first with primary schools finishing up the day. Younger age groups will blend in with teenagers for wall-to-wall tennis and mixed doubles.
For more information go to www.canterburytennis.co.nz and ask your club coach about tour-naments or get a friend to enter with you in the doubles.
Lyttelton-Mt Herbert: Adrian Te Patu – 59 per cent.
Riccarton-Wigram: Natalie
Bryden – 75 per cent.Hagley-Ferrymead: Brenda
Lowe-Johnson – 78 per cent.Shirley-Papanui: Ali Jones –
78 per cent.Burwood-Pegasus: Andrea
Cummings – 87 per cent.Spreydon-Heathcote: Phil
Clearwater – 89 per cent.
Attendance rates for board members between the
period of October 2013 to November 2015
• Mike Mora: 52/52• Debbie Mora: 44/52• Peter Laloli: 45/52• Helen Broughton: 50/52• Natalie Bryden: 39/52• Vicki Buck: 41/52• Jimmy Chen: 45/52
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REPRESENTATION REVIEWAppeals and objections to the city council’s final proposal for the representation review close at 4pm today. Anyone who submitted on the initial proposal can make a submission on the final proposal, as long as it relates to their original topics. Appeals and objections must be submitted in writing, marked ‘Representation Arrangements’ and sent to Christchurch City Council, PO Box 73017, Christchurch 8146 or emailed to [email protected]. The Local Government Commission will hold hearings next year, and a final decision will be made by April 10. Full details of the final proposal are on the city council website.
LIBRARY HOURSChristchurch City Libraries will be closed over the Christmas and New Year statutory public holidays. They will close on December 25 and 26, with normal hours resuming on December 27. Libraries will be closed over New Year from January 1-4, with the exception of Shirley Library, which will open from 10am-4pm. All service desks will also close from December 25 to January 4 inclusive.
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Every sum-mer SPCA Canterbury responds to numerous animal emergencies involving animals suffering from heat-related issues.
Weather forecasters are predicting a long and hot sum-mer this festive season and with temperatures soaring, such intense heat is not only dangerous for humans, but for animals as well.
Cars in particular, are poten-tial death traps for pets over the summer months. Unless your car trip is for the benefit of your animal, I strongly urge pet owners to leave your pets at home.
A joy ride in your car to the local supermarket or shopping mall, could be risking your pet’s life. On a 30 deg C day, the temperature inside your car will reach 39 deg C in 10min – even in the shade with the
windows slightly opened. In 30min it will go up to 49 deg C. A dog can withstand a body temperature of 41 deg C for only a very short time before suffering irreparable brain damage, and then death.
It is also important to ensure all animals have access to fresh drinking water and adequate
shelter for protection from the sun and heat. Unfortunately every summer many animals succumb to heat stress but this can be avoided if people are vigilant and take proper precautions.
Another common issue facing pet owners at this time of year is deciding when to exercise their pet. Owners should exercise dogs during the coolest time of day and ensure that the pads of their feet are not burnt on hot pavement or beaches.
To help provide ongoing animal care advice to the public, SPCA Canterbury has created a ‘Beat the Heat’ tips page on its website; www.spcacanterbury.org.
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Last Sunday’s wee hailstorm caused a sharp increase in emer-gency calls handled by the city’s firefighters. In the two hours from about 1.30pm, 30 calls could be attributed to the storm with some others later that were possibly weather related.
The majority of incidents, 19 of them, were fire alarm systems in commercial buildings malfunc-tioning from getting wet.
But we also saw a couple of houses set on fire by lightning, some properties flooded or suffer-ing leaks, power lines down, and even a tree in Diamond Harbour struck by lightning and catching on fire.
Otherwise during the week the most notable incident was the deliberate ignition of three townhouses under construction in Aranui on Saturday night. Three houses that would have made someone’s 2016 a special year. The year they moved into a brand spanking new double-glazed
unit. Except that is now delayed. By the act of somebody, pos-sibly even from within the same community, whose contempt for that community is obvious in the charred remains.
It’s sad. It’s also infuriating. I’m sure many in the community have the same question as I do. Why?
Duckling rescues continue to consume the time of our crews with three this week. There was also the dismantling of a free-standing fire place flue in Somer-field last week to free a trapped bird. Only there wasn’t one. I’m sure our crew did their best to as-sist the slightly pink faced owner reinstate his flue before leaving.
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Dreams to dance on the interna-tional stage may be a step closer for a Riccarton dancer.
Calum Gray from the An-neliese Gilberd Academy was one of only two dancers from the South Island accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance to study a classical major.
Academy director Anneliese Gilberd said she was proud of Calum for getting into the school.
Calum, 17, said his greatest gratification in dancing comes from duet performances.
“Feeling the connection through the art form you love so much – it feels incredible.”
Meanwhile, the luck of the Irish was with a Villa Maria student who has qualified to compete in the 2016 World Irish Dancing Championships in Glasgow next year.
Niamh Mortimer-Semple, 14, along with four other danc-ers from the O’Neill School of Dance will be travelling to the championships next year.
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It has been an accomplised year for the school after danc-ing at the opening of the Cricket World Cup earlier this year.
O’Neill Irish Dancing School president Cathy O’Neill said she was was proud of the girls.
“We know they will be great representatives of New Zealand Irish Dancing.”
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PUBLIC WARNED OVER STOLEN TOOLSPolice are urging the public to be vigilant and contact them straight away if they are offered or see new power tools for sale at prices too good to be true. The burglary is reported to have taken place recently from a commercial property in Hornby. The penalty of purchasing stolen property could result in up to seven years’ imprisonment. Phone the police on 363 7400, or report anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
FUNDING FOR TOUCH TEAMThe Riccarton-Wigram Commu-nity Board has made a grant of $450 from the 2015/2016 Youth Development Fund to the Lincoln High School mixed touch team. The grant was to help the cost of attending the New Zealand Secondary School Touch Team Nationals. The team had three representatives from the Ric-carton-Wigram ward including Logan Crofts, Nicholas Saunders and Logan Dick.
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Hello! Before we even start the first thing I’d like to know is what is your real name?
Nick Tam, basically Ikarus is just the name I write. I do a lot of traditional font-based graffiti and that’s just what I write.
Great name. The Spectrum festival is in full swing at the moment. How have you pre-pared for it?
Myself and two other artists Wongi Wilson and Jacob Yikes worked on one of the rooms at the YMCA and transformed a empty squash court into an abandoned factory warehouse type area. We had a bunch of walls built and artificially aged everything, and built different rooms then paint-ed a graffiti style in it. The room it leads into has been set up as a nature-forest type scene.
You are quite prolific with your work. Are you excited about the Spectrum festival.
Yes, definitely. There is a good attitude towards graffiti especially since the earthquakes. A lot of people are more accepting of it because they see what a positive impact it has on a space now.
Yes, because I was going to ask you what effect the earth-quakes have had on street art. I believe it is quite positive.
Yes, definitely. Obviously as an artist myself we’ve always seen it from that view. A lot of the places we paint do tend to be run down – not that fancy space in the first place so I’ve always seen it as a place that makes ar-eas better. But I guess with how much destruction, demolition and rebuilding that has been go-ing on, there is a lot of areas that everyone was getting sick of see-ing. They can now see the differ-ence a bunch of bright colours and pictures make.
What do you think about the negative connotations associ-ated to street art?
It’s a fine line between being understandable and ignorance. It depends on what level of interac-tion people have had with street art. If someone’s only experience with graffiti is that they have had property of their’s tagged then you can understand the negativ-ity. But people just seem to be afraid of any work that comes out of a spray can. There is just a negative connotation to a spray can. So if it is that sort of thing then I find it kind of ridiculous. It doesn’t seem to happen much anymore but in the past someone might have said: “I’d rather just see a blank wall – I don’t under-stand why this is better than the other side of it’’.
Do you think Christchurch could be becoming almost like the street art hub of New Zea-land?
Absolutely. There are plans to definitely make that the case if not of the Southern Hemisphere or the world. People are trying to do ground-breaking things. Even all the shows that have happened in the past three years have been up there.
On a more personal level,
what has your most proudest achievement been?
Being in the two Spectrum show in the past couple of years have been pretty good. The origi-nal show George Shaw and his team put on called the RISE fes-
tival at the Canterbury Museum was right up there because I never thought I’d get to paint and exhibit art in a museum. I didn’t even think Canterbury Museum would necessarily want to be in-volved with graffiti.
The attitude towards street art has changed immensely for the better since the earthquakes. Georgia O’Connor-Harding speaks to one of the city’s most upcoming street artist – Ikarus about his involvement in the Spectrum Art Festival on how his work evolved from vandalism into professionalism
Ikarus
ART: Prolific street artist Ikarus’ creativity and success today all comes from younger days of vandalism.
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– the other side of street artThey were a bit hesitant about
it but it turned out positive for everyone. All of their attendance records they previously had lift-ed.
What’s the most interesting place you have ever spray-painted?
Sometimes we’ve done large walls where you are painting on a scissor lift 8m in the air. But in my younger days, before I was doing legal work, I painted a bunch of roof tops, abandoned buildings and train yards – quite interesting.
And no one worried at all?Oh I mean, yeah. It just was
what it was. You do these sort of things when you are young.
When you were in school were you always getting in trouble for drawing or have you always been interested in art?
No, not at all actually. I got in-volved in art strictly through the vandalism side of graffiti. I was a tagger kid when I was young. Tagging was the only thing I was ever better at than other people so you know small amounts of positive reinforcements eventu-ally did wonders.
When was the turning point?I got too old to be doing what
I consider tagging and started
developing towards what I am today. A few of my friends were painting so we just kept pushing each other and it just sort of or-ganically happened. Something negative turned into something positive. I run a bunch of work-shops with different youth organ-isations or alternative education schools. A lot of that is where I get to work with kids that are not necessarily doing the best.
When did you get into art?When I was about 20. Any in-
terest I have in art , any mentor-ing tutor lessons I have – all of it comes 100 per cent from van-dalism. I just wanted to vandalise stuff until I got to the point where I thought I was screwing up my life. If you are going to screw it up, do it better. I remember think-ing I may need to stop because I might end up going to jail.
Have there been any risks where you might have ended up going to jail?
Yes, because I have been
caught a few times and been through the courts a few times. My first and second ones were about four months apart. So they are not going to keep letting you commit the same crime even if it’s petty. They’ll just say “you are clearly not learning your les-son – if we catch you again you are going to jail’’.
Do you have family now?No, no kids, no way. Kids are
cool but I don’t want to be re-sponsible for raising a well-bal-
anced human being. I don’t know a lot of well-balanced human be-ings. I know a lot of stuff but I don’t know if it is going to be useful. At the moment I can kind of do what I want to do.
Do you have any artists that inspire you?
Not really any names that any-one has heard of. There are a few various graffiti artists around the world. A lot of them are the people I am closest to and know. Seeing people you know achieve things is much more inspirational to me.
Definitely quite a process. Is it correct you do a lot of work in the eastern suburbs?
I haven’t for a while but that is definitely where I grew up and got started. We do have a lot of work around the city.
Any projects planned after Spectrum?
There are a couple of things coming up but not decided yet. I have a couple of groups inter-ested in workshops. I would like to do a group show or exhibition just between Jacob, Wongi and myself sometime soon. Some-where central and not too big.
Well I think that sums up everything. All the best for the future.
CREATION: One of Ikarus’ street art.
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The Soroptimist International Club of Christchurch celebrated the end of the year with a performance put on for them by the Westburn Primary School Spe-cialist Music programme.
Scholarships of $500 has been pro-vided by the club for one pupil at the Westburn Primary School for the past 15 years.
The 2015 recipient of the Soroptimist scholarship was Leon Thomas.
The club consists of 90,000 women in 3000 clubs around the world which raises money for local and international projects.
This year the group has supported Christchurch Riding for the Disabled, the Christchurch Mission’s Women’s Night Shelter and the Korowai Youth Trust.
The group has also worked in collab-oration with the local Rotary, Kiwanis and Altrusa clubs.
Wharenui School pupils are making sure chil-dren in hospital over Christmas will still have a merry day.
The pupils have been busy fundraising to have enough money to buy more than 100 toys for the children’s ward at Christchurch Hospi-tal.
Initially, the children planned to give their old toys to the ward but due to the need for cleanli-ness they decided to buy brand new toys.
Year 3/4 teacher Felicity Jordan Rea said the school raised $250 yet more than $1000 of gifts were donated from Paper Plus, Toy World, Not-ty Horse and Baby Belle.
Mrs Rea said the pupils wrote beautiful letters to different businesses and had a great response.
The children were put into groups and given $50 per group.
To ensure the toys were suitable and the pu-pils got the best bang for their buck, they re-searched online and as well as went to shops.
Mrs Rea said the toys were wrapped and col-lected last Monday by a hospital representative.
END OF YEAR: Soroptimist International Christchurch President Lena Metcalf, Bob Gaudin Director of Westburn Primary School specialist music programme Carol Pritchard, Juliette Ma, Lesley Fursdon, Justin Hodges and Leon Thomas.
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GIFT OF CHRISTMAS: Wharenui School presented more than 100 gifts to the children’s ward at Christchurch Hospital.
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Riccarton High School has recognised its junior students sporting success at its end-of-year prize-giving on December 11.
Year 10 student Josh Paul was named the junior sportsman of the year, recognised for his suc-cess across a number of codes.
Josh was captain of both the first 11 cricket team, and the ju-nior first 11 football team that won the division one Wednes-day competition.
He also was a member of the year 10 A volleyball team, the junior A basketball team and the school’s futsal team.
Outside of his achievements for the school, Josh was named in the Mainland Football Talent Centre and went on to be select-ed for a New Zealand training camp.
Year 9 student Meg Rennie was named junior sportswoman of the year.
This year Meg represented Riccarton at cross country, swimming and was a member
of the year 9 touch, year 9 A netball and beach volleyball teams.
For her netball season Meg was also named this year the most valuable player and won the umpire’s award.
Outside of school Meg is a national level windsurfer.
Currently the under-17 wom-en’s champion and the top fe-male techno windsurfer in New Zealand.
Hornby Primary School held its prize-giving award ceremony at the Hornby High School auditorium last Monday.
End of Year Trophies 2015:Sports Trophy - Richie TupuaileiHornby Primary School Positive
Attitude - Chelsea O’BryneAcademic Achievement – Sue
NguyenCitizenship - Jaleel Arataura-Col-
linsMost Improved Attitude - Sharleze
Henare
Excellence in Attitude - Trisha Tayong
(Mainfreight Cup and book)2016 ScholarshipsManaakitanga - Madi BarrAtawhai - Zion WalshVersatile Personal - Narnya PeleniVersatile Trekkers - Aiden ClemettKMBE Sporting - Dakota NewsonKMBE Cuultural - Keisha Tu-
puaileiKMBE Musical - Inaka WanhallaKMBE Arts - Samicel Amosa
Trophies handed out at Hornby
RECOGNITION: Chelsea O’Byrne received the Positive Attitude award and Sharleze Henare received the Most Im-proved Attitude award.
Villa Maria College pupil Saman-tha Crews has been awarded Dux for 2015. Samantha also received a Cultural Gold, the Calder Cup for contribution to music, the Quinn Cup for Speech and Drama and the Callaghan Cup for year 13 general excellence.
Proxime Accessit was awarded to Julia Thwaites. Julia also received the Atawhai (Mercy) Gold award.
Year 13 special awardsHead Girl: Milly YoungMeyer Cup for Leadership: Milly
Young and Sherry MalikHead Librarian: Esha DicksonPrincipal’s Art Award: Siobhan Mc-
DanielEnglish as a Second Language, Denise
Murfitt Cup: Jieun Lee Contribution to Music, Calder Cup: Sa-
mantha Crews Quinn Cup for Speech and Drama:
Samantha Crews, Olivia Nally, Isabella Walsh
Sr Leonie Award for Excellence in Oral Communication: Sherry Malik
Mother Mercedes Memorial Literary Prize: Rebekah de Roo
Best all round Senior Sportswoman, Sally Flynn Cup: Jessie Anderson
Mene Award for the most valued con-tribution to sport in a number of codes: Madeline Gill
Father D K O’Sullivan Cup for mak-ing the best use of her God-given Talents: Jemma Harnett
Staff Special Award Contribution to College life: Brittany Geeves, Maria Pula, Virginia Hogan
Alex Thomas Memorial Cup: Kahutaiki Torepe-Ormsby and Grace Curtis
Elizabeth de Roo Cup for College Ser-vice: Emma Catto
Board of Trustees Award for Outstand-ing Contribution to Leadership and School Spirit: Emma Murdoch Mary
Ryan Memorial Prize for exemplifying the spirit of Villa: Alice Grubb
Mercy Cup for Christian Leadership: Maria Pula
The Mercy Award goes to: Sherry Ma-lik
Year 13 General Excellence, Callaghan Cup: Samantha Crews.
Year 12 special awardsMcSweeney Cup for Top Sciences:
Alishka ThieleTop Academic Student: Vincent Cup
Amy InwoodGeneral Excellence Jubilee Cup: Amy
InwoodYear 11 special awardsYear 11 Top Academic Student – Phoe-
Christmas is a time for celebration, spending time with friends and family and enjoying festive foods and drinks. Nutrition-wise, this
festive fare can be a challenge.Here are some simple tips to help you
survive the festivities:• Don’t try to lose weight over the festive
season. With parties, families and all the special foods that go with Christmas, it’s going to be just about impossible! Your main aim should be to maintain your weight (using some of the tips below!)
• Eat regular meals. If you skip meals you are more likely to fill up on high fat snacks. It only takes a few of these snacks to add up to more calories than your usual meal.
• Avoid going to a function hungry, you can easily eat a lot of party food in a short time.
Have a small snack beforehand like a bowl of cereal, yoghurt or a sandwich are quick and will help fill you up. It will also help if you are well hydrated, so try drinking a few glasses of water before you arrive.
• Deep fried foods, crumbed and battered foods, cheese platter and nuts are all high in fat. Choose fruit, vegetable or bread based snacks.
• If you are hosting the party, offer your guests a range of healthy snacks. Always popular are hummus or salsa dips with vegetable sticks.
• If you are taking a plate, make yours a healthy option. How about a platter of fruit currently in season?
• Listen to your body and stop eating when you feel full.
• Just say ‘No” to food – mentally practice
Festive Season Survival Tips
strategies to decline food offers. For example: “It looks amazing but I am full” or “I tried it and it was great”.
• Chat and mingle. If you are bored at a party you’re more likely to hover around the food table or seek out the serving platter. A good conversation can distract you from the food. Avoid standing right beside the food table or bar while you’re talking.
• Consider your drinks, they can add to the calorie count very quickly. Try diluting your alcoholic drinks, such as a spritzer (½ wine, ½ soda). If you prefer spirits, try a diet mixer. Lite beers are lower in calories and alcohol. Remember soft drinks, juices, punches, tonic water and flavoured mineral water can all have similar calories to alcoholic drinks.•Be aware of how much you are actually
drinking. Alternate alcoholic drinks with glasses of water and non-alcoholic choices. • Keep Active. Join in the Christmas backyard cricket game or go for a walk with friends or relatives. Remember you’re aiming for 30 minutes of physical activity each day. • If your regular exercise class stops over the Christmas break, plan other types of exercise - organise your friends and put a date in your diary.
If you do really overdo the festive foods or drinks, take a deep breath and start the next day afresh with healthy foods and some exercise. No fasting - just sensible eating. Remember, a few parties don’t make you overweight, it’s what you do all the other days of the year which count.
Be aware of how much you are actually drinking
Healthy snacks are always popular
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Quality architecture...beautifully appointed 8 Birchgrove Gardens, MairehauAuction: Thursday, Jan 28, at 10am (471 Papanui Rd, unless sold prior)3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | 2 toilets | 1 living room | 1 dining room | 2 car-garage | Listing #: PI39884
In my opinion, this is one of the best-kept secrets of Shirley – located down a private drive where you can be assured of privacy and quietness.
The home was the winner of a gold award in the 2012 Master Builders House of the Year Awards for excellence in workmanship, creativity and innovation by Mike Greer Homes. It is constructed of lightweight concrete, and features a very cool and funky mono-pitch roof design.
Quality exudes from this house with tiled bathrooms, granite bench in the kitchen with a great butler’s pantry and large open plan living flowing into a private courtyard, and landscaped garden area.
This is definitely no drive-by as viewing is sure to impress. My owners have purchased their next home and make no mistake this will be sold!
Sited on a TC2 freehold section of 589m2, and designed with the desire and love for entertaining, both indoor and outdoor, this will be a house not to just enjoy but one to truly love!
For a private viewing, contact Cameron Bailey of Harcourts Gold Papanui (Licensed Agent REAA 2008) on 352 6166 or mobile 027 555 7079.
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24 December, Christmas Eve 4.00pm, Children’s Crib Service,
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6.00pm, Children’s Bedtime Service, Saint Mary’s Church, Halswell
11.00pm, Midnight Eucharist, All Saints Church, Prebbleton
25 December, Christmas Day 8.00am and 10.00am,
Saint Mary’s Church, Halswell
9.30am, All Saints Church, Prebbleton
Sunday 27 December One Service only at 10.00am at
Saint Mary’s, Halswell
St. Peter’s ChurchChurch Corner
Christmas Eve 24 December11.15 pm - Carol Singing & Midnight Holy Communion
Christmas Day 25 December8.00 am - Holy Communion & Carols9.30 am - Holy Communion & Carols
St. Luke’s ChurchSchool Road, Yaldhurst
Christmas Eve 24 December5.00 pm - Children’s Service - Children may take part, costumes provided
Christmas Day 25 December9.30 am - Holy Communion & Carols
All welcomeVICAR: The Rev. Nick Mountfort, Phone 343.3007
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BRICKLAYER George Lockyer. Over 30 years bricklaying experience. UK trained. Licensed Building Practitioner number BP105608. Insurance work. EQC repairs. Heritage brickwork a speciality. No job too small. Governors Bay. Home 329-9344, Cell 027 684-4046, email [email protected] LICENSED, available for all aspects of building. Please call 027 241-7471 or 335-0265CARRIER Local, experienced, friendly, trade-me purchases, single items to truck loads, furniture to whatever, removals & trade deliveries a specialty. Ph GEH 341-5069CARPET CLEANING and free deodorising, 3 rooms & hallway from $59, over 20 yrs experience ph 027 220-2256
FURNITURE REMOVALS Large Trucks $95 + GST per hour 7 day NZ wide, packing & moving, Professional Company, Professional Service. Canterbury Relocations Ltd. ph 0800 359 9313GAS PLUMBING,DRAINAGE & HEATING. 24/7 service. Ph Mike Cairns Gas & Plumbing 021 132 8929 or 03 326 7949OVEN CLEANING Professional cleans $50.00. Gift Vouchers avail. Phone 0800 683-6253 or 027 228-0025PAINTER Available, All aspects in painting. Very competitive in roofs and fences. Please call 027 241-7471 or 335-0265PAINTER Top quality work, interior/exterior, pensioners discount, free quotes, 30 years experience, I stand by Canterbury, ph Wayne your friendly painter 03 385-4348 or 027 274-3541PAINTING DECORATING interior & exterior, gib fixing, plastering, paperhanging, Est 50 yrs in ChCh, ph Wingfields Ltd, ph Mark 021 171-1586 or 355-5994PLASTERER Gib Stopping, Small job specialty. 30 + years experience. Ring 0800 387-369PLUMBER For prompt service for all plumbing maintenance, repairs and alterations. Phone Michael 364 7080 or 027 438 3943PLUMBER A Top Plumbing job completed at a fair price, prompt service, all work guaranteed, Ph Brian 960-7673 or 021 112-3492ROOFING Qualified & Licenced Practitioner. Re-Roof & Repairs, all types. Member New Zealand Roofing Association. Over 35 years experience. Phone John 027 432-3822 or 351-9147 email [email protected] CLEANING Spouting Unblocked, Cleaned Out and Flushed Out. Also Full Handyman Services Available. Call Trevor 384-3435 or 021 043-2034STONEMASON BRICK BLOCKLAYER, Earthquake Repairs, Grind Out & Repoint, River/Oamaru stone, Schist, Volcanic Rock, Paving, all Alterations new & old, Quality Workmanship, visit www.featureworks.co.nz or ph 027 601-3145TREE WORK Hedge trimming, stump grinding, rubbish removed, small job specialty Ph Andrew 03 322-8341 or 027 435-8759T.V. SERVICE CENTRE Repairs, tvs, microwaves, stereos, DVD. Aerial installations and kitsets, 480 Moorhouse Ave, ph 03 379 1400
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Iconic albumremastered,reissued andbeing performedLIVE on Thursday!
Feelers
Released in August '98, 'Supersystem' by the Feelers sold over 83,000 copies, charted in the Top 10 for 28 weeks, achieved 5x Platinum, and claimed 'Album of the Year' at the 1999 NZ Music Awards. Its lead singles 'Supersystem' and 'Venus' captivated national airwaves, with the latter awarded 'Most Performed Work' Silver Scroll for two years running.
This classic album is being remastered and reissued, and to mark the occasion the Feelers are touring their legendary live show, performing the entire 'Supersystem' album live followed by a set of their other massively popular hits.
Happening on Thursday (Christmas Eve) at The Ferry Ale House, 2a Waterman Place in Ferrymead, 8pm start. Tickets at Ticketmaster. R18.
