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hose who need a helping hand keeping warm this win-ter have been given support

in the form of Wanaka Warmth for Families, a new initiative set up by mum-of-two Tess Christie.

Tess was inspired by a friend’s Fa-cebook page called Taupo Warmth for Families, and the need to offload some of her own warm things that she no longer needed.

“I want the group to be self-managing, and ideally people will list items that they want to donate or they can message one of the group admins to nominate themselves or another family to receive a particular

item. Someone could message to request something and I will try my hardest to find it,” Tess said.

The group will adopt a similar format to sales posts seen on Upper Clutha Facebook pages, yet Tess wants recipients who really need the items to be the ones who get them, rather than those who are fastest to comment.

“I’m never going to police the page, the items are free for anyone who wants them, but the tone of the group is set by the option to pay an item forward or donate an item to somebody else,” Tess said.

Wanaka Warmth for Families has already been a success, with more than 200 members and items pouring in since its creation on

Sunday June 5. “The more members we get, the

more stuff will be flowing between people and extra duvets just sitting in your cupboards could be keeping someone else warm.”

“Sometimes we need a bit of help, I have received that help in the past and I enjoy being able to facilitate others receiving that kind of help,” Tess said.

Once winter is over, the group will continue to provide support in other forms, for example provid-ing Christmas presents for families in December.

Meanwhile, Louise Carney’s Food for Love initiative, in which families or individuals going through a tough time can be nominated to receive

home-cooked meals, is still going strong, with around three to four deliveries a week.

“It has been going really well and we have had so much local support from members of the public and lo-cal businesses. We have had some lovely feedback from people who have said we have changed their lives, and we like to keep checking in with our nominees,” Louise said.

Those wishing to request or do-nate items can search for Wanaka Warmth for Families on Facebook or call Tess on 021 363 260.

Anyone wanting to nominate someone or help with Food for Love can search for Food for Love on Facebook or call Louise on 021 298 2576.

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anaka woman Bev Clark and Cromwell man Stuart Heal were both awarded the

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Bev (pictured) was awarded her honour for services to health. She served a term of six years as chair-person of the Southland Ethics Committee.

Bev was voted as the chair for the Central Southland Health Trust and the Winton Birthing Unit for the eight years following their inception. She was a member of the support group to retain the Dunstan Hospital at Clyde, and became chairperson of Central Otago Health Services Ltd. She had governance roles in many medical committees and authorities in the Central Otago region. Bev is a marriage and funeral celebrant in Wanaka and is a founding executive member, treasurer and life member of the Celebrants Association in New Zealand.

“It is all a bit overwhelming. It is the team behind you that makes

your achievements what they be-come. It would be nice if all my team and all the health services I have been involved in could share in the award as well. It is quite humbling really,” Bev said.

Stuart Heal of Cromwell received his Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to cricket and the community.

Stuart has been a director of New Zealand Cricket since 2008 and chairman since 2013. During this time he oversaw the successful co-hosting of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. He was also chair of Otago Cricket for six years. He has had sig-nificant roles with Rotary and was a director of Rotary from 2010 to 2012. He has held various significant gov-ernance roles with the agricultural industry including CEO of leading agricultural supply cooperative CRT for 20 years.

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Consumer NZ and police are warning residents to be careful who you provide private information to, especially over the phone.

Last week an elderly Wanaka resident was phoned up by a person who said they were from the New Zealand government and they were due a tax refund. In order to get the tax refund the person asked for their bank account details, password, home address, age, driver’s licence and passport number. After giving these details to the person, the caller said the refund would arrive in their bank account in due course.

A close relative, who did not wish to be named, said when told about it she asked to see the letter that had requested the information.

“Once I found out it was a phone call, I called the bank and put a stop on everything. The bank were fantastic.They trusted the caller because they said they were from the government.”

Another scam is where someone calls saying

they are from VISA telling them their card was used in India 15 minutes ago for $600. They say they have the first four digits of your credit card and request that you confirm the rest. VISA will not call you to verify your number as they have them on file.

There is also an elaborate scam catching out people who are expecting an invoice from their builder. Hackers are getting access to builders’ email accounts and altering bank account num-bers on invoices before they reach the builder’s client. The client, expecting the invoice, pays the bill and may only realise they have been defrauded when the builder chases up payment.

Consumer NZ chief executive Sue Chetwin said banks needed to be doing more when they became aware of these types of scams.

“ANZ had alerted its staff when its fraud team flagged the problem but an alert on the bank’s website was only posted this month,” Sue said.

Anyone who thinks they’ve been a victim of this type of scam should report it to police and their bank immediately.

Be on the lookout for scams


NASA officials are pleased with the performance of the balloon after completing the first circumnaviga-tion of the globe on May 31.

The balloon achieved the milestone 14 days, 13 hours and 17 minutes after launching from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand.

NASA balloon programme office chief Debbie Fairbrother said the balloon has encountered some more extreme environmental conditions when compared to last year’s flight.

“There were two nights that we had greater altitude drops than last year, but the balloon recovered the next day as designed. The equipment is working well and we have met our minimum success criteria,” Debbie said.

“The science team is very excited

that they detected and localised their first gamma ray burst and are hoping to detect more as the mission continues. In addition, they did ob-serve a major electron precipitation event. While not one of the science goals for the mission, the data is very interesting for their space physics colleagues.”

Wanaka local Grant Bisset has been tracking the balloon and thought there may be a slim chance he might glimpse the balloon as it passed Wanaka.

“I went outside before the sun rose and I could see it low on the horizon, it looked like a planet just like Venus. The balloon was 417.8km to the east of Wanaka at a height of 110,062 feet when I took the photographs. That’s quite amazing when you think about it,” Grant said.

Track the balloon at: www.csbf.nasa.gov/newzealand/wanaka.htm.

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Wanaka Police and LandSAR were busy on Saturday night dealing with two search and rescue (SAR) opera-tions. The first involved two local males, aged 28, who went hunting in the Timaru creek area and got bluffed at night trying to descend off the hill.

Wanaka LandSAR co-ordinator ser-geant Aaron Nicholson said the pair were “very cold and could not make their way down” but fortunately they were in cell phone coverage and

could call the police.“A SAR team utilising a night vision

equipped helicopter and our Alpine Cliff rescue team were deployed to carry out the rescue. Both were found and returned to Wanaka safe and well,” he said.

Police received another call while this event was occurring from people concerned for the safety of a local lady who had left her address in the evening and had not returned. Six LandSAR team members and a dog handler were deployed. They found the lady on a nearby track and she received medical attention.

LandSAR rescues hunters


As the ski season begins and more people begin to pour into the town, opportunist thieves have been taking their chances, with an increased number of theft reports last weekend.

Base Backpackers warned people to lock up their cars on the lakefront when two of their guests had a large amount of expensive belongings stolen from their vehicle, which was parked in the car park by the lone tree on Sunday, June 5.

A similar theft from a vehicle in Puzzling World’s car park was reported to police on the same day. In both incidents the vehicles were unlocked and the owners had left for a short period of time.

Wanaka Police senior sergeant Allan Grindell said that a similar incident in Queenstown indi-cated that the offenders may be marauding, which means that they are mobile and opportunist.

“It appears that we have some opportunist thieves driving around. A simple message here; remove valuables from your vehicle and lock it,” senior sergeant Grindell said.

Opportunist thieves take chances


Winter road reports sent via text are in their first year this winter and are already proving to be one of the most used services provided by Queens-town Lakes District Council (QLDC).

Although QLDC have been sending road reports through email and social media for around four years, the text alerts are new and have more than 1900 recipients.

Michele Poole, communications manager at QLDC, said that this is in addition to more than 2700 people receiving email alerts each morning.

“It is one of the best used services QLDC provides, and a critical service in the winter. We get good feedback that suggests that people are using our information to make safe choices about where and when they travel. For example, showing a photo of the state of the Crown Range can influ-

ence people who are not confident driving in snow or ice, or who don’t have chains, to take SH6 via Crom-well instead,” Michele said.

The council sends the daily reports between 6am and 6.30am and updates between 6.30am and 6.45am, so that people can know the situation before they leave for work. If there are significant changes, social media platforms are used to update road users.

Despite these warnings, Wa-naka Police attended three serious weather-related crashes last week.

Senior Sergeant Allan Grindell said, “I know I am stating the obvious here but it is winter and drivers need to drive to the conditions. If it is cold there is likely to be ice, particularly in shaded spots, near culverts and on bridges. My advice is to leave five or ten minutes earlier for your destination.”

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The final outstanding request in the Wanaka Watersports facility resource consent process has been received by commissioners Bob Nixon and David Clarke. A modified landscape plan was submitted on May 30 by Duncan White, the Trust’s planner.

In the new plan the location of the building has been shifted 9.5m to the east and 5m to the south.

Elements staying the same include the erg room, internal changing rooms, external public facilities and lighting changes.

Access ramps and the design of bike racks have changed, as has the internal layout of the hull storage, with a step and ramp included in the floor. The kayak storage has also changed, with

the new design showing kayak storage along the southern wall. Primary access to the building will now be via a boardwalk around the building.

The new proposed location has reduced the number of trees required to be removed from the site from 11 to five resulting in a reduction in mitigation planting.

Health of the remaining trees has also been addressed in the arborist’s report.

Submitters have until June 20 to comment on the proposed amendments to the building’s location.

“The trustees prefer the as-notified position of the building, however if that original position is not considered appropriate then the trustees consider the proposed location to be an accept-able compromise," Duncan said.

The Trust's final right of reply is scheduled for July 18.

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The Wanaka Community Board (WBC) today approved notification for a ten year lease of part of Kelly’s Flat Reserve to enable the Wanaka Football Club to construct a storage facility building.

Wanaka Football Club board member Richard Vorsternans addressed the meeting, stating that with the 100 percent increase in club participation in the last two years, the club desperately needed more facilities at Kelly’s Flat to store equipment and provide changing rooms for players.

APL Property Limited representa-tive Averil Kingsbury and Queens-town Lakes District Council parks and reserves planner Aaron Burt presented the report to the WCB.

The lease requires a nominal rent of $1 with the football club to maintain a minimum $2 million public liability policy over the improvements. At the end of the lease the football club is required to remove the improvements and make good the land, or ownership of the community building and all other structures revert to the council.

The lease will now be notified and the public will have the opportunity to place submissions. Three council-lors were appointed to hear any public submissions.

WCB chairwoman Rachel Brown said, “This will be a good result for both the community and the club and I congratulate the club for all their hard work on follow-ing through this process. We will continue to work with the club to expedite the process.”

New lease for football club


Six years after launching the Lake Wanaka Lifestyle Reserve brand, Lake Wanaka Tourism (LWT) have revealed its new branding strategy, focusing on a shift to mobile.

LWT’s general manager James Helmore said that the rebrand was fuelled by the fact that the consumer landscape has changed considerably in the past six years.

“Travellers are consuming information differently. No longer do they go through a linear process to dream, plan, book and experience their holidays. They are increasingly accessing information via mobile and having micro-moments with

brands, snacking on content to fulfil an immediate need. They are also sharing their experiences in real time, or close to it, to friends and family around the world. We needed a strong but flexible platform and imagery, icons and phrases to motivate travel,” James said.

The rebrand and new logo, of which the Roys Peak version is pictured, aims to project a vibrant identity to position the Wanaka region for maximum impact and differentiation against competitors.

The rebrand has cost the company $15,000 in total to develop, included in their annual budget for 2016, and will be rolled out progressively across maps, brochures and the LWT website.

LWT reveals rebrand

Confidential group Remarkable Mums has been launched by Central Otago Plunket, to focus on the emotional, social and physical well-being of mums in Wanaka and its surrounds. The informal, open-to-all group will be held every third Friday of the month, with the first on June 17 at Upper Clutha Plunket in Ardmore Street, focusing on postnatal depression.Local GP Dr Fiona McLean will discuss triggers,

signs, symptoms and support options over afternoon tea, and all parents, caregivers and children are welcome.The session will be held from 1pm-2.30pm. Contact Kim on 027 771 9831 for more infor-mation. Next month’s session on July 17 will address antenatal and postnatal anxiety, and coping with an unsettled baby will be discussed on August 19.

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After public consideration and feedback the Wanaka Lakefront Development Plan was adopted by the Wanaka Community Board (WBC) on Wednesday, June 8.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) senior parks and reserves planner Jeannie Galavasi and QLDC parks and reserves plan-ning manager Stephen Quin recommended the development plan be adopted, “as the long-term vision for Wanaka lakefront will be agreed upon and all future projects will be implemented in a cohesive way and public access to the lake will be improved.”

The new plan removes informal parking along the lake reserve edge, while providing ample parking facilities along Ardmore Street. It will provide continuous pedestrian access, making strong connections with the town centre, reduc-ing vehicle use in the town centre and enhancing the ecology throughout.

Also proposed in the concept plan are a new

town pier, marina and yacht club upgrade, the expansion of the existing playground and open space opposite the town centre, and the provision of ecological lookouts and signage.

WBC board member Mike O’Connor said, “we have had a lot of support from the general public for the concept plan so far and I look forward to its implementation.”

The importance of the millennium pathway and recognition of the log cabin lease were taken into consideration in the final concept plan.

The plan will be implemented in five stages outlined as follows, depending on availability of funding, but it is envisaged all stages will be completed within six years.

Stage 1/A south beach public toilets and com-mercial Jetty and yacht club parking. Stage 2/B Ardmore Street entrance bridge. Stage 3/C main beach, garden toilets and Ardmore Street road, crossing and parking. Stage 4/D plaza space, village green and carpark. Stage 5/E south beach car park and ecological boardwalk.

Stage 1 is planned for the 2016/2017 financial year.

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Volunteering Central invites volunteers from all walks of life to join other volunteers and guest speakers as it celebrates and thanks the region’s volunteers during National Volunteer Week this month in a series of events.

“After the popularity of guest speakers last year we are thrilled to have a selection of inspiring vol-unteers who will share their volunteering stories,” Volunteering Central’s Trudy Anderson said.

In Cromwell (Tuesday, June 14, 5.30pm, Lake Dunstan Boat Club), Bruce McPherson, a semi-retired accountant and self-described volunteer-ing addict, will share his story. Bruce (pictured) has been on numerous trips to various islands

in Papua New Guinea through Volunteer Service Abroad. Bruce will discuss the benefits that volunteering can bring and why he keeps going back for more.

In Wanaka (Wednesday, June 22, 5.30pm), a range of local volunteers will share their stories in two-minute snippets at Cinema Paradiso before everyone is invited to stay for refreshments and a discounted film.

“We are keen to see volunteers from all walks of life come along and join us, whether they volun-teer with a local sports club, event, environmental group or organisation supporting local people in the community,” Trudy said. “The celebrations give us all a chance to see what is going on out there in our community and to meet up with new and familiar faces.”

Local volunteers celebrated


Cardrona Alpine Resort has recruited a number of Mandarin-speaking ski and snowboard instructors and other department staff to meet the signifi-cant increase in Chinese skiers and snowboarders.

General manager Bridget Legnavs-ky said that the resort had noticed an increase in Chinese visitors last year and found the best way to ensure they had a great experience was to have Mandarin speakers on the mountain.

“This year we have been getting China-ready. We were amazed to find out how quickly the country is developing world-class ski resorts. There are already 12.5 million skier-days per season in China and 35 percent of these are planning

overseas skiing holidays in the next two to three years,” Bridget, pictured, said. Lake Wanaka Tourism has also noticed an increase in Chinese agents interested in finding out about what Wanaka has to offer, and has been coordinating training sessions and language workshops for their membership to educate them about what the Chinese market requires.

General manager James Helmore said, “their customers are increas-ingly staying longer and doing more, and doing a wide range of activities just like our other markets. That includes everything from skydiving to staying in luxury lodges. Offering a warm welcome and understanding Chinese visitor expectations is vital to deliver a great visitor experience. Many of our businesses have infor-mation in Chinese to help deliver their experiences.”

Wanaka gets ‘China ready’

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The competition is heating up on TV3’s The Block NZ: Girls Vs Boys with Tiff and Niki winning the first room reveal by a huge margin, winning $10,000 and winning the challenge on Monday, June 6, worth $5000.

The Wanaka Sun asked Tiffany Mair how the show was going.How have the girls found the experience so far?

We are really loving the experience. We are getting on really well. It has been pretty hectic, but we are supporting each other really well and we are loving it! What is the worst thing about living in a house that you are renovating?

You want to keep it at the end! We haven’t been living in house one long, but we can already see our vision coming together. We are pouring our heart and soul into it and it is going to be hard to part with it on auction day.

From a day to day point of view, there is dust everywhere, and I am a bit of a clean freak, so it is quite hard for me to let it go. How did it feel to win the room reveal?

It was so amazing to get the first room under our belt – it was a really big confidence boost and we were so in love with the room, it was awesome. How did you feel about Emma and Courtney swapping houses with Dyls and Dylz?

I think it was a strategic decision for the girls. They had obviously thought it through quite a bit – they think that it was worth swapping for the view. So we support the girls 100 percent, whatever was right for them is right for them.

How do you feel about the support you are getting from the people in Wanaka?

It is so cool to know that there are so many people behind us. My mum and my sister have been doing massive Team Yellow parties, with lots and lots of locals, so it has been so awesome to see the photos showing the support coming from Wanaka – and see my niece and nephews all dressed up and getting really excited about it.

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If you are travelling in the Cardrona Valley and you see a drone flying around, don’t panic, you are not being spied on, it is part of a research project being carried out by Todd Redpath, a University of Otago postgraduate PhD student.

Todd has installed a weather station on the Pisa Range to study seasonal snow cover in the Southern Alps.

“Essentially, the weather station will provide us with data that will help us in using satellite and drone imagery to better understand how the seasonal snow varies in time and space, and from there we can start to look at broader climatic and hydrological questions – what sorts of conditions lead to larger or smaller amounts of snow than normal? What are the implications of this for snow as a water resource?” Todd said.

There are limitations associated with the satellite imagery used, so that is where the drone comes in.

The mapping of snow-cover is predominantly done using remote sensing techniques, a combination of satellite imagery and aerial pho-togrammetry from the drone. The drone that Todd uses is a Trimble

UX-5, which is a fixed-wing designed, geared around aerial mapping/photogrammetry.

“This means it has a downwards facing camera fitted with a very high-quality lens to ensure images are captured with minimal distor-tion. It is launched from a catapult and follows a pre-programmed flight path, continuously taking photos as it goes,” Todd said.

“We are intensively surveying the study basin in the Pisa Range, and by intensively surveying this with the drone through the winter we hope to build up a picture of the dynamics of the seasonal snowpack with a level of detail that hasn’t been achieved before.”

As the research is being conducted on the Pisa Conservation area, re-search permission was obtained from the Department of Conservation for the installation of the weather station and for flying the drone over conser-vation land. Consent was also gained from Snow Farm and the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds.

The weather station was installed in May and will remain in place as long as seasonal snow remains on the ground. If all goes well this year, Todd aims to repeat the field campaign next winter to expand the dataset.

Station to study snow


Otago Polytechnic Diploma in Cookery student Emma Waser competed in the inaugural New Zealand-Viet Nam Culinary Skills Fusion which concluded on Monday.

The Wanaka woman was part of a team competing against two other teams at the event in Ho Chi Minh. Emma’s team won the prize for the best overall menu.

The teams, comprising two Vietnamese and two New Zealand students, were brought together for two months to develop a three-course menu which showcases the best of New Zealand and Vietnamese cuisine, techniques and ingredients. They prepared and presented their menus at a competitive showcase MasterChef-style gala dinner for 150

guests including the New Zealand Ambassador to Viet Nam Haike Manning and top chefs from both countries.

“Collaborative ventures between our two countries provide students with the opportunity to learn a huge amount about each other’s cultures, form lasting bonds, and develop knowledge that can be applied to our growing trade, investment and education links with Viet Nam in future years,” Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce said.

The 2016 initiative, sponsored by Education New Zealand, aimed to showcase both New Zealand’s and Viet Nam’s culinary arts, to promote both countries’ food and beverage products and to raise awareness of New Zealand as a quality educational destination.

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Kahu Youth’s two week takeover of Amigos has come to an end, with plenty of money raised for the group, and not a single plate or glass smashed. Five Kahu Youth members volunteered on each of the four nights, May 24 and 26, and May 31 and June 2, at the Mexican restau-rant serving food and preparing drinks for diners.

Although the final total raised has not yet been calculated, youth team member Angie Lister said that the Trust would receive 50 percent of the

gross takings from each evening, which will go back into the Trust towards something the kids will want.

“The kids absolutely loved the experience of learning all about hospitality and were so

professional. They were awesome, and not a single drink was dropped or plate smashed,” Angie said.

The Trust is now looking forward to their hangi

in celebration of Mataraki on Saturday June 18. Volunteers are still needed to help prepare the food on the Friday evening, and serve food on Saturday afternoon. To volunteer call Kahu Youth on 443 5880.

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A mobile phone app aims to make life easier for farmers and eradicate paperwork in light of the new health and safety legislation which came into force in April.

OnSide has been developed by farmers and management specialists who recognised the need for a streamlined platform on which farmers could manage health and safety on their farms.

CEO Ryan Higgs said, “we struggled to man-age health and safety within our large corporate dairy farm business, and so we decided to design something to help farmers and rural people.”

OnSide provides farmers and visitors with a map of risks, and the ability to manage visitors, risk registers and incident reports.

Cromwell cherry grower Patsy Blanche is one of more than 600 users to sign up to OnSide, and although she has only been using it for a couple of weeks, she sees it being a useful tool for her business.

“It has some really useful features, particularly the map, which is really accurate and allows you to flag things up and show contractors where you want them to go. I can see it really helping us a lot and it has been easy to use so far,” Patsy said.

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Operational grants totalling $187,250 have been allocated to ten com-munity organisations in the Central Otago-Queenstown Lakes region in Central Lakes Trust’s latest funding round. “Central Lakes Trust has a strong commitment to supporting social service organisations that deliver valuable programmes and services in our region,” CLT chief executive Paul Allison said. “Our latest round of grants is testament to that.”

Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) received the largest grant - $62,000 - to help it deliver a wide range of programmes including social work, counselling, parenting and budgeting.

“We are different from other services because we work with children, families, individuals and older people to strengthen families

and meet individual needs,” Paul Hooper, PSO Family Works director said. “Rural families face a variety of issues which overwhelm parents and impact negatively on their ability to be effective parents. Our social work services in Central Otago address these needs through creating a happy home environment, improving community understanding of how to parent and protect children as well as increasing the skills of parents in the community.”

An annual grant of $20,000 was approved to maintain an emergency heating fund which is administered by the Central Otago Budget Advice Service.

Central Otago Compassionate Friends ($10,000), Central Otago Victim Support ($8000) and Sport Otago ($27,500) also benefitted from the May-June 2016 round of funding.

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As Father Martin Flannery settles into his role as parish priest, he has praised the community for its support towards him and each other in the difficult circumstances which brought him to Wanaka.

Parish priest of Cromwell and Upper Clutha Father Martin, pictured, was welcomed to the town in March, following the death of previous popular parish priest Paul Anthony Mahoney.

“I came in at a very difficult time, but there is a real sense of community here and people have not only been very supportive of me, but also of each other,” Father Martin said.

Spending Thursday and Friday each week in Wanaka is giving the priest the opportunity to get to know the area and the people, a process that he said is happening slowly but surely throughout the two and a half months he has already spent here.

“My role as chaplain at Holy Family School also gives me a bit of contact with young families and young children in the parish. Times have changed since I was ordained, and it would be great to have some younger people coming into the priest-hood,” he said.

Since he was ordained in 1992 in Alexandra,

Father Martin has spent two years in Dunedin, almost ten in Queenstown, almost eight in Inver-cargill and is now based in Cromwell.

New parish priest settles in

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Wanaka 14 West Meadows Drive - Hollywood Rise 4 A 2 F 2 I

Auction 3pm, Friday 1 July 2016 (unless sold prior)

Ray White Office, 1 Helwick Street, Wanaka

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Class Above

From the moment you enter this

property off Hollywood Rise, you will

be impressed by the attention to

detail, from the feature driveway and

fencing, through to the unique

appearance of this Sarah Scott

designed home. This is one out of

the box, and if you are looking for

more than Vanilla then this must be

viewed to be truly appreciated.

Albert Town 12 Quinnat Street 4 A 2 F 2 I



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Leaving Town

Yes our owners are packing up the

family and heading East, creating a

wonderful opportunity to own an

established home in this popular

family friendly neighbourhood.

This fully fenced, four bedroom

home is near new and situated on a

nice easy care 1001 sqm section,

making it a sound rental or ideal

family home with loads of room for

the troops.

Wanaka Apt 201 Lakeside Apartments 3 A 2 F 1 I L

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Lakeside Living Literally

Here is a rare opportunity to own

one of the jewels in the crown of the

popular Lakeside Apartments, one

of Wanaka’s most central and sort

after addresses. Apartment 201 sits

on the north western corner of the

building, providing stunning

uninterrupted lake views from the

expansive deck, living areas and

master bedroom.

Wanaka 125 Warren Street 3 A 2 C 2 F 2 I


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Location, Location, Location

A private oasis awaits here in this

central established location right in

the heart of old town Wanaka. Plans

have changed for the owners who

built this home on the 1/4 acre

property 5 years ago keeping in

mind the possibility to add another

dwelling and subdivide later. The

beautiful garden is private and

established with lake views and

plenty of sun.

Albert Town 7 Hunt Place


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The Section You Have Been

"Hunt"-ing For

An Albert Town section to delight!

The owners have purchased

elsewhere, giving us the opportunity

to sell this nicely sized established

991m2 section in old Riverside Park.

If you are after a titled section to

build on now, you must look at this.

Albert Town 6 Ribbonwood Avenue 5 A 3 F 2 I 1 J

Deadline Sale Offers by 4pm 16th June 2016

(unless sold prior)

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Fiona Reid 0274 859 651

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Deadline Sale Offers by 4pm 16th June 2016

(unless sold prior)

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Hikuwai Heaven

This striking 5 bedroom schist and

cedar home will be a spectacular

place for quiet enjoyment or lively

entertaining. The substantial home

has been built to a high degree of

specification and is sure to please.

Enjoy evenings in the outdoor spa

by the open fire and take advantage

of the privacy offered by this

beautifully landscaped 1,853m2 site

overlooking the Clutha River.

Wanaka 11 Edgewood Place 5 A 2 F 2 I

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Rachel Walsh 0274 432 683

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Space To Spread Out

Enter through the lovely entryway

with schist stone feature wall to the

foyer overlooking the enveloped

deck with views to the mountains.

Make your way into the open-plan

kitchen dining and living area with

timber flooring and high-ceilings that

make this home feel sophisticated

and elegant. A cosy lounge extends

off the dining area to provide an

extra space that can be closed off.

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Acre with Earnings

Here is an opportunity to own this

classic country style home, set upon

a spacious acre, yet so close to

town & the schools. This generous 4

bedroom home, would be ideal for a

large family or as a solid rental

investment (currently returning $630

pw). Top that off with a self-

contained Cottage attached to the

home, that is currently used as a

short-term rental.



Hard Case

If you have any questions or queries about any of the

information in this article please contact Janice Hughes on

03 443 0900 or [email protected].

Janice Hughes

Who’s got time to hibernate?

Come the cooler months, a certain breed of frog apparently partially freezes itself, while the cute lit-tle chipmunk all but checks out, its heart rate plummeting from around 200 beats per minute to a paltry five.

Anyone who’s lived in a skiing area – wherever in the world that might be – knows, though, as the temperature plummets, contrary to nature, the heat goes on – snow worshippers galore; streets and shops pumping with locals and visitors alike.

Just as our town prepares for the annual onslaught, far from succumb-ing to our primal instincts and doz-ily drifting into dormancy, our office is quite the hive of activity, too. As well as all our day-to-day work, our community-based initiative, BizClub, is steaming along, with a blossoming membership and booked-out work-shop sessions, and we’re just putting the finishing creative touches on our firm’s annual Snow Report sponsor-ship with Radio Wanaka.

And, then, in amongst all of this, I’m gearing up for what’s likely to be one of the most significant, and memo-rable years of my life. The seeds were sown soon after my husband, Clayton, and I arrived as newbies to Wanaka. I was asked along to a club by a new business acquaint-ance. I accepted as I figured that if I didn’t like it I could make a courte-ous appearance, and then go mer-rily on my way and find something else that sat more comfortably with

my demographic. I wasn’t at all sure I would be cut out for this particular organisation. I was a young profes-sional woman. No. No. No. Not a neat fit at all.

And wouldn’t you know it …

I was wrong. Oh, so wrong. Far from my misconceptions, Rotary was so much fun, very much egalitarian and, most of all, I found an organisa-tion with true heart and commitment to doing good. The rest, as they say, is history. I never left. What’s more, Clayton joined, too. Twelve years down the track, I’ve served as the local Club President, area Assistant Governor, and, come July 1, I take the helm of the entire region, from Temuka south, for one year as Dis-trict Governor.

More than one person has asked: does this mean you’ll be giving up your day job for the next 12 months? Nope. Bar the odd week here and there, it’ll be situation normal, as far as my professional practice goes. More than one person has also asked how I’m going to find the spare energy to lead a whole region of 1250-plus Rotarians. Answer: an awesome support team, both at work and through Rotary, a pretty sharp organisational structure and systems, and, frankly, I just love it. Far from draining me, Rotary gives me more oomph in all aspects of my life. As I keep telling people, Rotary repays me easily 10-fold on anything I put in. When you think about it, pas-sion’s the consummate energiser, isn’t it?

What about you?

So, this column’s for Rotary – and encouraging all of you who have a healthy dash of community spirit, a skill or two and an appetite for a bit of revelry to come take a look. And, don’t forget my shaky beginnings – chances are any perceptions you have are, at best, outdated.

A lot of people presume Rotary just holds book sales and specialises solely on beautifying the community with park benches, flower boxes, barbecues and the like. Yep, we do that. Just look at the BBQ’s on the lakefront and the new Rotary Park out at Glendhu Bay. During the next year, the world expects to see its last case of polio. Guess what? Polio’s eradication all started with an Aus-sie Rotarian 30-odd years ago, and Rotary’s been instrumental in the global vaccination programme that will make this horrific disease only the second in history to be stamped out – smallpox being the first. Our organisation’s charitable wing, the Rotary Foundation, has given away more than a billion dollars in the past century to global projects, including the End Polio Now campaign, and also to Kiwi-based causes.

Our fundraising efforts know few limits in Wanaka – we cook, we cy-cle, we run the annual book sale, we help out at major events … and, then, we enjoy the unbelievable sat-isfaction of seeing that money go to work, in our local community, district-wide and internationally. Last year alone, funds raised locally went to-

ward everything from a learn to swim project in Samoa and much-needed post-cyclone disaster relief in Fiji, to providing dictionaries to five primary school in our area and sponsoring several local youngsters for youth exchanges and other educational pursuits. Seriously, it’s beyond awe-some what’s achieved and the lives that are changed – Rotarians’ in-cluded.

Chances are, like me, you’re a “Plun-ket baby” – but you likely didn’t real-ise, Rotary helped launch this Kiwi institution, together with CCS Dis-ability Action (formerly the Crippled Children’s Society), Outward Bound, Cure Kids, Riding for the Disabled, Milk in Schools, the Asthma Society, Defensive Driving Courses, the first Health Camps … the list goes on.

You get back what you put in

… and then some. Research abounds showing “giving back” is a pretty reliable route to better life sat-isfaction and happiness.

Furthermore, Rotary offers a chance to invest both in helping your com-munity and yourself by “doing good”, and also by way of its professional and personal development oppor-tunities. Through Rotary, I’ve been given the chance to listen to, and learn from, some of our planet’s most exceptional people, stretching my thinking, my understanding and knowledge in ways that I can apply not just to our charitable organisa-tion, but in my wider personal life and to my work as a lawyer and

businesswoman, too. If you’re keen to know more, feel free to call me for a chat. No matter what stage of life you’re at, what you do for a job, or how much spare time you have in a week, chances are you can make a rewarding contribution through Ro-tary, and Rotary will reciprocate by enriching your life, as it has mine and countless others.

Please remember this information is designed as a general guide and should not replace specific legal advice on a particular issue.


New Zealand’s Mountain Film Festival has added a book and literature event to its bill, which includes a literature competi-tion, workshops, storytelling, poetry, speakers and author readings. The goal of the new shows, held in Wanaka and Queenstown, is to complement the film festival and offer a variety of formats to make adventure, mountain and expedition stories accessible to a range of new audiences.

Literature enthusiasts can attend workshops, see open-air mountain cooking, hear from 35 different speakers and authors and see Max Grant’s Fiordland and Beyond, Nathan Fa’avae’s Adventure at Heart or Daniel Clearwater’s Canyoning in NZ crowned the winner of the mountain book competition.

Chief judge Darlene Thomson said, “A sign of a good book is one that brings emotion to the reader and all of the competi-tion books did this in one way or another. Each winning book will appeal to a wide audience, not just to experts in the particular adventure field.”

The event will be held at Rippon Hall on July 2 and 3, and

Memorial Hall in Queenstown on July 9.

Tickets are on sale now at mountainfilm.net.nz and

programmes are available at Wanaka’s Paper Plus from next week.

Pictured: Competition entries.

Festival adds literature event

Stitch ‘n Bitch are meeting at Ritual Cafe on Saturday June 18 at 10.30am to celebrate world wide knit in public day. Drop by and help them knit a yarn bomb or work on your own project and have a chat. Everyone welcome.

World wide knit in public day

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PHOTO: MARK SEDON


In the first of the Otago Community Trust’s $100,000-plus funding rounds for 2016, the Trust donated a total of $1.4 million across Otago, including $366,700 into the Wanaka region in May.

The newly-named Wanaka Recreation Centre has been given a $300,000 donation to assist with its fit-out, in particular the purchase of sporting equipment and the Rebound Ace flooring.

Queenstown Lakes District Coun-cil chief financial officer, Stewart Burns, said he was delighted with the donation received.

“The interior fit-out is the last phase in the development. It will see the recreation centre amply placed to support the wide range of

sporting codes and community uses in Wanaka,” Stewart said.

The Southern Lakes Arts Festival Trust has been given $65,000 for two projects: to assist with the six-day Festival of Colour costs and to assist with the cost of purchasing a mobile venue - the Pacific Crystal Palace - in partnership with other festival promoters.

A consortium of buyers - Southern Lakes Arts Festival Trust, Christch-urch Arts Festival Trust, Tauranga Arts Festival Trust and regional facilities organisation Auckland Live (RFA) - has agreed to purchase the Pacific Crystal Palace on a timeshare basis. When it is not being used by the named organisations it will be available to hire.

Wanaka Community Patrol Inc has been given $1700 to assist with the cost of volunteer training expenses.

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Question over roadkill snackI’m not sure that falcons go for roadkill. I am very sure it is the Australasian Harrier Hawk that does this. I have never, ever seen a native falcon on the road eating roadkill. Just saying!

Christine ThomsonSecretary, Mt Barker Residents Association

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For the wildI am writing in response to last week’s letter from Phil Murray about our wilding trees.My partner and I have been visiting our wild forests and reading the literature

on the topic for several years, as we have been keen to get to the bottom of the issue. We have observed first hand all of the ecological benefits described by Peter Whiting in his opinion piece (Wanaka Sun May 12, 2016). It is true that our wilding forests sequester carbon, filtrate water, build and conserve soil, and regulate and enhance the local water cycle. They also provide habitat for wildlife, sequester nutrients in the form of atmospher-ic dust and animal detritus, host a suite of fungal associates and create a humid sheltered layer between the atmosphere and earth. All forests offer these benefits, regardless of whether they consist of native or exotic trees, and regardless of whether we have a par-ticular affinity for them. It is important to recognise that all of the arguments against wilding trees stem from an aesthetic preference for indigenous forests and man-controlled landscapes. There is no sound ecological basis for this preference, as it bears no relationship to the health and vitality of the ecological system.Contrary to Phil Murray’s opinion, the science regarding the effect of afforestation on water yield is far from robust and conclusive, as is admitted by Davie & Fahey (2005) in the conclusion section of their paper which summarises the New Zealand studies on the matter. The studies they reference are primarily from the 1980s and 90s and use a simple four-variable equation to model what is an extremely complex, dynamic living system. They do not consider any temporal aspect; that is, they do not consider what happens over time as the forest matures, canopy closes, life systems develop in the understory, lo-cal climate is affected, the related biophysical feedback mechanisms start to play out, and the underlying aquifers are restored and replenished. They simply look at the mean annual water yield. This is basically as simple as saying, if rain falls on a hard imper-meable surface more water will run-off to the streams below than if it fell on a spongy absorbent surface. I encourage people to put all of this aside and just visit as many different wild forests as you can. First clear your mind of any prejudices you may have picked up, and just ob-serve. You will see that nature does not discriminate between native or non-native plants. When a landscape is cleared of its vegetation, nature will move to restore plant communi-ties with whatever fast-growing, resilient, hardy plants happen to be available in the seed bank. If we have a preference for what we want those plants to be, we should plant them, and strategically enhance the seedbank. Imagine if that $8 million was put into habitat restoration projects such as Te Kakano, rather than giving it to poison and helicopter companies who create dead landscapes, which only make yet another vacuum for nature to fill.

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LAKE HAWEA GOLF CLUB RESULTSMEDAL / LGU / RINGERS1st Adam Clifford 78/10/68 on c/b2nd Ryan Conner 92/24/683rd Max Walker 84/14/704th Murray Nyhon 85/13/725th Gerry Browne 85/12/736th Steve Innes 89/15/70LADIES1st Kelly McKenzie 117/45/72Closest to Pin No 1 Steve InnesClosest to Pin No 5 Max WalkerBirdies / Net Eagles Hole No. 17 Chris Morrow

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Amended Meeting ScheduleThe QLDC June Meeting Schedule has been amended as follows:

Amended Meeting Time:Property Subcommittee – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Thursday 23 June 2016 at 11.00am.(The Property Sub Committee will be held with the public excluded, pursuant to Section 7(2)(i) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.)

Additional Meeting:Hearing of Submissions on the Review of Fees and Charges 2016 – Council Chambers, 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown. Tuesday 14 June 2016 at 9.00am.

Proposal to Incorporate a Document ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’ by Reference into the Proposed Queenstown Lakes District Plan (Stage 1)Queenstown Lakes District Council is proposing to incorporate a document ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’ by reference into the Proposed District Plan (Stage 1), as part of a future Variation. The ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’ are an update to the existing Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2006, which are now 10 years old and do not adequately respond to the proposed Medium Density Residential Zone under the Proposed District Plan.

Pursuant to Clause 34(2)(c) of the First Schedule to the Resource Management Act 1991, before the Variation is publicly notified for submission, Queenstown Lakes District Council gives notice that comment is sought on the ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’.

The ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’ to be incorporated by reference is available online at www.qldc.govt.nz/proposed-district-plan and during working hours (8.30am – 5pm) at the locations below.

Council Offices:• 10 Gorge Road, Queenstown• 74 Shotover Street, Queenstown,• Wanaka Service Centre, 47 Ardmore Street, Wanaka

A copy of the material can be purchased from the Council offices at 74 Shotover Street. Call 03 441 0499 if you wish to purchase a copy.

The Council invites any person to make comments on the proposed ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’ to be incorporated by reference.

Options for making a comment are: • Online: www.qldc.govt.nz/proposed-district-plan • Post: Queenstown Lakes District Council, Private Bag 50072, Queenstown 9348, Attention:

Comments on ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines 2016’• Email: [email protected] (subject line: Comments on ‘Arrowtown Design Guidelines

2016’)

If you decide not to make a comment using our online form , please provide comments in writing to the address above. Any comments made will be considered by Full Council prior to notification of a Variation to the Proposed District Plan (Stage 1).

The closing date for comments is Friday 24 June 2016.

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Tim Stevenson had an extremely successful week at the Tux South and New Zealand dog trials held in Omarama on May 30-June 4, taking out the top prize of New Zealand dog trial champion in the straight hunt.

With competitors travelling from all over the country to compete in the straight hunt division, the trials were held in brilliant weather.

Tim (pictured with Cruze) quali-fied for the South Island trials with three dogs: Cruze, Dark and Spook. Although Dark and Spook were unsuccessful, Cruze achieved a score of 97 in a field of over 250 competi-tors, finishing in the top seven.

With the top seven going through to the final round, Tim and Cruze then completed for the NZ champi-

onship. Tim and Cruze were the last team to compete and had a fantastic run, scoring 98.5 to give them a combined score of 195.50 to win the title.

Tim (28) grew up in Wanaka and attended Mount Aspiring College. He then worked at Mount Albert Station, Makarora and Lake McKay Station, Wanaka, and now manages a farm at Mangaweka, near Taihape. His parents Bronnie and Red Stevenson still reside in Wanaka.

Tim’s mother Bronnie was excited about his win.

“We lived in Omarama for a long time and Tim was born there, so it was special for him to win there. It is a great achievement to win a class in the New Zealand Dog Trials and something that many trialists never achieve in a lifetime, so to do it at 28 is amazing,” she said.

Stevenson takes out national dog trial championship


Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key announced yesterday that the government is investing in a further three projects to help boost tourism in the regions, one of which is based in Wanaka.

Wildwire Wanaka will receive $250,000 from the Tourism Growth Partnership Fund for the extension of a climbing route equipped with fixed ladders to the top of a 700m twin waterfall at its location at the base of the Treble Cone skifield road.

“Tourism is vitally important to our economy, with over 160,000 people employed in the sector,” Prime Min-ister Key said. “Under the Tourism

Growth Partnership, the Government is investing $8 million per year to support innovative projects that will create new opportunities in tourism throughout New Zealand.”

Funding for tourism project

Wanaka’s Oska Inkster-Baynes has won the Christchurch Airport Half Marathon, and the New Zealand title, beating favourite Aaron Pulford from Auckland.

The half marathon, which doubled as the New Zealand championship, was a tight race with the lead bunch of six men breaking away in the opening kilometres. Aaron and Oska had raced clear of the bunch with 5km to go.

“Aaron kept putting in surges,” Oska said after the race. With less

than 1km to go Oska made a surge of his own and he led by three seconds with 100m to the Cathedral Square finish line. But it was an eventful 100m for Oska when the lead safety car got in his way. He was stuck on the wrong side of the finish chute, still in the lead but unable to cross the finish line. The 25-year-old had to duck under the barriers to cross the finish line in 1:06:34, just one stride ahead of Aaron who was awarded the same time.

New Zealand title for Oska

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Eleven Mount Aspiring College athletes travelled to Dunedin to compete in the Otago Cross Country Championships on Thursday (June 2).

In the best performance to date by the local team, the students won four out of eight races.

The Otago championship winners were Janus Staufenberg and Sammy Burke in the senior male and female categories, Gregor Findlay in the under-16 boys race and Fiona Murray in the under-15 girls race.

Janus, Sammy and Gregor will compete at the National Cross Country Championships on

Saturday, June 18, in Rotorua.In the boys races, Julius Staufenberg was

placed third in the under-15 category and Campbell Wright was placed fourth, Jack Findlay was placed 14th and Leo Staufenberg was placed 15th in the under-14 category. In the girls under-14 races Ruby Burke was placed seventh and Rata Horan was placed eighth. Bella Fraser was placed eighth in the under-16 girls race.

Pictured: Sammy Burke (16), Janus Staufen-berg (17), Ruby Burke (13), Rata Horan (13), Fiona Murray (14), Leo Staufenberg (13), Campbell Wright (13), Jack Findlay (13), Gregor Findlay (15), Julius Staufenberg (14) and Bella Fraser (15).

Best performance to date


The Kwik Sticks won its first game of the season in a close hockey match against Alexandra Lightning. Upper Clutha stepped up a level with strong performances across the pitch. Player of the day Hugo Cochrane’s pace and skill in attack was rewarded with a first half goal, while Amelia Mitchell, playing her first game in goals, made a crucial double save.

Upper Clutha maintained its hold on the match in the second half with great defending from Bronte Crowe and Georgie Burdon, and tireless work in the midfield from Thomas Gibson, Sam Porter and Billie Crowe. The team had several one-on-one opportunities against the goalkeeper but was unlucky not to extend its lead. The final score was 1-0.

The Kiwi Sticks Salamanders, demonstrating a growing skillset, played the Cromwell Vipers. Both

teams scored three goals each in the first half. Superior defence by the Salamanders, led by player of the day Hudson Weathington, restricted the Vipers to one further goal while a great, all-round team effort netted the Salamanders four more goals in the second half. The final score was 7-4 to Upper Clutha.

The Kiwi Sticks Marsupilamis lacked its characteristic vim and vigour in the match against the Cromwell Crushers who sank three goals in quick succession early in the first half. Max Porter made some valiant runs up the field but the defence proved too strong. Thomas Mitchell, pictured, worked tirelessly up and down the pitch and was rewarded for his efforts with a goal to end the first half 1-3. Max and Thomas scored two well-earned goals in the second half. However, it was player of the day Jack Sandford’s deft footwork in goal that tempered the Crushers onslaught. The final score was 6-3 to the Crushers.

Great teamwork from Kwik and Kiwis


Fresh from their success in the Secondary Schools Rogaine Cham-pionships, Sam Coupland, Bella Fraser and Wilfred Spearing are off to their next competition this weekend.

The Mount Aspiring College year

11 students, pictured, will join Luke Wright, Harrison Brown, Breagha Rennie, Simone Johnson and Sarah Burbery at the Hillary Challenge qualifier on Sunday June 12.

Together the group will battle it out in a six-hour adventure race against other South Island second-ary schools for a place in the final at Tongariro next year.

Rogaining champs on to next competition

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Local bikeNZ certified mountain bike coach Gavin Key has been selected for the Performance Advance Coaching pro-gramme run by SportNZ. To be accepted into the programme, you first have to be nominated, and then selected. There are only 12 places offered in Otago each year and this is the third year the programme has been run. It is designed to develop the skills of coaches across all sports.

Gavin first moved to Queenstown in 1993 and moved to Wanaka in 2009. He lives in Lake Hawea with his partner Chloe and daughter Ella.

“I was involved in the ski and snowboard industry for a long time and that got me to travel and experience the world. Once I finished travelling I started biking again and then took it a bit more seriously,” Gavin said.

Gavin, pictured, gained his coaching certification with Cycling NZ three years ago and is currently contracted to Mission Wow and Bespoked Bicycle. He also does private coaching and trains a local elite downhill mountain-bike racer.

“Getting nominated by Cycling NZ was overwhelming and to get selected, I was ecstatic. It is a fantastic opportunity to develop my coaching skills,” Gavin said.

The course runs for 12 months and starts this coming weekend. Gavin hopes the course will provide more coaching oppor-tunities for him in the future.

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Congratulations are in order for the Mount Aspiring College students who made it into the representative rugby and netball teams for Central Otago and Upper Clutha.

Hugo Cochrane, Rory Read, Jack Timu, Otis Harry, Will Scurr, Thomas Evans, Lachy Moore and Archie McRae have been selected for the Central Otago under-48kg representative rugby team.

The Upper Clutha under-14 repre-sentative netball squad students are; Olivia Bates, Meg Breen, Jody Chisholm, Sophie Hodgkiss-Blyth, Rata Horan, Krystal McCutcheon, Josie Plimmer, Shanae Sanders and Isobel Smith, while the Upper Clutha Year 8 representative netball team selections are; Abby East, Abby Fisher, Alice Howard, Georgia Robertson, Holly Gibson, Piper Cavanagh, Summer Rasmussen, Whitney Bennett and Zoe Smith.

Man’ea Apa, Bronte Crowe, Neve Faed, Emily Findlay, Samara Goodall, Eliza Hardaker, Lucy Miller, Scarlett Norman and Emma Palmer were selected for the Upper Clutha Year 7 representative netball team.

Sporting students represent the region

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