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By Laura KavanaghA local group of young footballers are receiving

some international experience in the football arena.As part of Wellington United AFC, Dutch foot-

baller Marianne Vanbrummelon has been working with aspiring football stars from Newlands College.

Marianne is the fourth player to help out at Newlands College as part of a relationship between the college and Wellington United, who have been bringing players over.

She has spent 10 weeks with the girls and the experience has proven invaluable, with the team unbeaten.

Marianne started playing at 13, but after four years, started playing professionally.

She has just fi nished the football season in New Zealand as the second highest goal scorer in the top women’s league having played just six games.

Continued on page 2

International soccer player helps local team shine WINNING COMBO: Newlands College girls football team captain Michaela Ryan with dutch footballer

Marianne Vanbrummelon, who has been mentoring the team. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

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By Dave Crampton

About 1000 people packed the Anglican Cathedral in Thorndon to hear politi-cians pitching policies and priests preaching the plight of the poor at a child poverty forum on August 5.The forum was co-hosted by Wellington’s Anglican and Catholic bishops – Justin Duckworth and John Dew – with Children’s Commissioner Dr Russell Wills as keynote speaker. Also speaking were politi-cians from all parliamen-tary parties.“We are here tonight be-cause every child matters,” Bishop Duckworth said by way of introduction. Dr Wills focused on child wellbeing, promotion of a

good start in life - and was scathing about interest rates through loan sharks. “Ten percent interest a week is 500 per cent a year and should not be permis-sible in this country,” he said to loud applause.Archbishop Dew followed, saying that a focus on child poverty is a good pre-election o� ering. “We cannot a� ord to have a culture of indi� erence in our society as we prepare for a general election.”The country’s seven Cath-olic bishops also released a pre-election statement, challenging politicians to focus on society’s most vulnerable, and the public to engage with the politi-cal process. “We have a responsibility to engage with the politi-

cal party that we intend to support (and) challenge all politicians, especially the one for whom you decide to vote,” the statement said. Most politicians used the forum to promote their policies, with one spend-ing nearly all allotted time on outlining what healthy foods – such as apples and potatoes – his party will scrap GST on, and which ones – such as coke and chips – where GST will remain. Bishop Duckworth fin-i s h e d t h e f o r u m b y encouraging people to gossip – admittedly some-thing he doesn’t often do. “I want you to gossip about the prospect of ending child poverty in Aotearoa.”

Child Poverty forum in Thorndon

CHILD POVERTY: Bishop Duck-worth speaks to the child pov-erty forum. PHOTO CREDIT: DAVE CRAMPTON.

Continued from page 1By Laura Kavanagh

Sandy Cumpstone from Wellington United says it is a great experience for local players to work with players like Marianne.

“She is an inspiration for not only our club, but for the next row of players,” Sandy says.

Director of Sport Graham Witts says the addition of Marianne has given the team a great female role model, especially one playing for an

international side.“It has given them a bit of

confi dence,” Graham says.“They get a buzz out of it.”The hope is that it will get

some of the girls to take up club football or encourage more girls to play, Graham

says.Team captain Michaela

Ryan says it has been good to have Marianne coming all this way to help their team.

“It is a great opportunity for us to improve,” Michaela says.

Winning football comboWINNING COMBO: The Newlands College girl’s football team. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

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By Laura Kavanagh

A 100 year birthday was made all the more special last week, when a local Johnsonville man celebrated his birthday.

Les Stichbury was awarded the Bomber Command Clasp by the Chief of New Zealand Air Force, Air Vice Marshall Mike Yardley and the national president of the RSA, Don McIvor just in time for his birthday.

The clasp was presented at a special birthday afternoon tea held at Cashmere Home

The celebration was well at-tended by family and friends, who recounted memories of Les’ upbring and later life, including his two daughters Leigh Krall and Jane Foster-Smith.

Les was born in Gisborne, before

the family moved to North Otago.“Some of you will know him as

Buster of Uncle Buster, as he was given a buster haircut at age two or three,” Leigh says.

In 1940, Les was drafted into the army, after which he applied to join the airforce and served overseas during WWII.

“Dad is truly a hero in my eyes,” Leigh says.

The family also reaccounted Les’ family life and his strong involve-ment with the Masonic Lodge.

“He was a very well liked man, very popular,” Leigh says.

“It is an amazing milestone.”

Bomber clasp tops off 100 year old birthday

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS: Les Stichbury with his daughters at his birthday celebration at Cashmere Home in Johnsonville. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh

By Dave Crampton

Three Catholic parishes in the northern suburbs will merge from February 2016, the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington says.

Three parishes – in John-

sonville, Khandallah and Newlands – will become one community, with the three finance committees and ad-ministration groups becoming one, although still meeting in the current three church buildings.

Church to merge in the Northern suburbsArchdiocese spokesper-

son and Johnsonville parish member Paul Alsford says the merger is a good move to progress the work of the church within its walls and in the local community.

“It is about everyone as part of the church asking, ‘how can we best serve our community?’” Paul says.

“We just have to sit back and say ‘what can we do better – you can’t stand still’.”

Members of the Catholic community – including from its schools – are meeting on Sunday, August 17 at the John-sonville Uniting Church to advance and discuss ideas sur-

rounding the merger, and to outline a preliminary plan for the next three months.

Discussion will be based around a merger document issued last year.

Johnsonville’s Saint Peter and Paul’s parish priest Fr. Peter Fitzgibbons says the new parish will better serve the growing Catholic community.

“It is our mission to do eve-rything we possibly can in establishing a new parish that will continue to meet the pas-toral, spiritual and sacramental needs of Catholics and their families in the northern part of Wellington, an area which is still growing,” he says.

PARISH MERGE: Saint Peters and Paul's Church in Johnsonville will be merging with the Catholic parishes in Khandallah and Newlands in 2016. PHOTO CREDIT: Dave Crampton.


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More than 80 creative Crofton Downs school students displayed their artwork at the Johnsonville Mall last week after mall management gave them a room free of charge to run their own gallery.

They called it ‘Picture Me A Gallery”.

Students spend much of this term on their artwork, with fi nal touches made just prior to the gallery opening on August 2.

Teacher Judith Urry says the idea arose from a Jun-ior School trip to Te Papa

Tongarewa as part of a study in learning how to use art as a communica-tion tool.

“One of the children said, ‘why don’t we have a gal-lery at school?’”

Instead, the school ap-proached the mall for some space, to display their framed artwork to the public.

“We had it free for a week, and that was our gallery,” Judith says.

Zoe Ferguson, 6, created a dot painting of her family as part of a class project.

“It took us a couple of days and we loved it,” she

says.Emily Brier, 7, drew a

self-portrait out of pastels and paint and says she received good feedback from her friends.

“They said it looks like me, and liked the way that my hair is around my ear.”

School teachers and some of the students manned the gallery during the weekends, and the gold coin entry raised more than $300.

“We made our artwork not just to display our art but to make money for the Life Flight Trust,” Emily says.

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By Laura Kavanagh

It was a moment of nostalgia for Johnson-ville based grandmother Margaret Martin, 85, coming back to visit the Newlands Court Motels on Newlands Road.

Former owner Mar-garet met with current owners Ralph and Lena Stoves earlier this month to relive memories from when the motel first opened 40 years ago on August 3.

Margaret and husband Laurie built not only the motel, but the service station and the New-lands Baptist Church, all landmarks of the Newlands area.

Margaret and Laurie owned the motel for eight years before ill health forced them to move on in the 1970s.

Visiting the motel after all these years certainly brought back some memories for Margaret.

Several celebrities vis-ited the motel, including Billy T James as part of the Black Market Band.

“You met a lot of in-teresting people, you certainly see how the other half lives,” Mar-garet says.

“We had a lot of com-mercial travellers.

“We also had galas, 21st, engagements held at the motel.”

Meeting Margaret was an eye opener for cur-rent owners Ralph and Lena, who have owned the motel for almost ten years.

“She has solved some mysteries for us,” Ralph says.

“Laurie and Marga-ret are legends in the

MILESTONE: Current owners Ralph and Lena Stoves share stories with Margaret, who originally built and owned the Newlands Court Motel with her husband Laurie.

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Margaret says it was a good experience to come back after all those years.

“It bought back so

many memories – see-ing what has changed, and what is the same,” Margaret says.

Much of the orginal furniture can be found, including a wall heater

that outlived a more modern version in a recent power outage.

Ralph reassured Mar-garet the heater is still there;“We won’t be changing it.”

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Choral singers from the Wel-lington region and further afi eld will be joining the Wellington Cathedral Jubilee Chorus on Saturday Sept 13, for a full day’s workshop led by Michael Stewart, Director of Music at the Cathedral.

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is rarely sung, so this will be a great opportunity for singers with some music background to have a rewarding day of raising their voices in song.

One well-known piece from the work is the chorus ‘How Lovely are the Messengers’ – many will have sung it in their school days.

The workshop will fi nish with a concert at 6:30pm, featuring Wellington soloists Jared and

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By Laura Kavanagh

St Teresa’s School in Karori is embracing the cultural diversity of its students with a number of new initiatives.

Principal Mary-Angela Tombs says this year one of its goals is to embrace cultural diversity within the school community so children and their families are supported to enhance learning.

The school held a Pasifi ka fono and Filipino morning tea last year, and held an international evening specifi cally for parents who did not attend New Zealand

schools to discuss the New Zea-land school system.

This term, St Teresa’s focus for leaning is 'He Taonga', with children sharing their skills and family/cultural treasures with others.

It is also holding a Pasifika afternoon tea where some of the Pasifi ka parents are able to share their culture with teachers.

Mary-Angela has been most im-pressed with a group of students, who have stared a Pasifi ka group.

“We want to support them, as they are showing real leadership,” Mary-Angela says.

She recently came back from a trip to Samoa, where she visited a local St Theresa’s School in the village of Lepea and gifted books from the school community.

“The visit is also part of our own efforts to embrace cultural diversity within our own school community,” Mary-Angela says.

She says the school has made a concentrated effort to engage with the whole community.

“It is important for us that the children are happy and safe and feel part of a community that is to support them,” Mary-Angela says.

Cultural diversity embraced at St Teresa’s

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A newly opened store in Marsden Village has had strong support from the Karori community since it opened in May.

Store Manager of the St Vincent de Paul Society opportunity store in Marsden Vil-lage Lissa Ortiz says the community has been very friendly and supportive

“We are very happy people are getting to know us,” Lissa says.

St Vincent De Paul’s decided to start a store in Marsden Village because it wanted to reach the Karori Community.

“We wanted to have a presence in the community,” Lissa says.

Proceeds from the shops support their welfare programmes including budgeting, food parcels, advocacy, support short or long term, assistance with furniture and clothing and the Pregnancy Assistance service.

The store sells mostly second hand goods, including bric and brac, glassware, kitchen equipment, furniture, books and clothes.

“People kindly donate a number of items to the store,” Lissa says.

“We even sold a Lazy boy last week.”Lissa says all donated items are checked

to make sure it is in good condition and is worth selling.

The St Vincent de Paul Society has shops all over the Wellington region, and appreci-ates the generosity of people who support its work, through the donation of good quality items for sale in our shops

People can drop off donations to the store, and Lissa says clothes are always in demand.

Arrangements for donated items are made through their Newtown offi ce – for pick up ring 389 7122

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By Laura Kavanagh

In her 11th year as principal, Carol Craymer has seen many changes to Queen Margaret College, but says the high point of difference for the school is the curriculum.

Curriculum at its core

EDUCATION THE KEY: Queen Margaret’s College principal Carol Craymer believes strongly in the curriculum. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

One of the biggest changes Carol has implemented at Queen Margarets is introducing the International Bac-calaureate Diploma (IB) alongside NCEA, allowing a duel pathway for students from Year 12.

“It is a fantastic qualifi cation that prepares students for university,” Carol says.

She says the world has changed, in part due to the increase in technology.

“The IB diploma is a very modern qualifi cation; it has an international mindedness,” Carol says.

Carol says the benefi t of having an international perspective in today’s world is priceless, and Queen Margaret College has embraced this.

Learning a second language at Queen Margaret is compulsory for students and all students have electronic devices to aid their learning.

Over the last eleven years, a number of changes have been made to the school buildings in Thorndon, includ-ing a new gym fi nished last year and extensive renovations to the school buildings and tower block.

“Parts of the buildings were in a bad state of repair,” Carol says.

“I was relieved it was repaired as this is part of Wellington’s history.”

Carol says the location in Thorndon is wonderful for the school, as the area is rich in many resources.

Carol, who has many years experi-ence as an educator says she loves the holistic nature of Queen Margaret College.

“Even though we have 680 girls, it still has that family feeling,” Carol says.

ST VINNIES: Store Manager Lissa Or-tiz with some of the pieces on sale. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh

By Laura Kavanagh

Five young Wellingtonians, aged between six and 13 have just done a great thing for their health, and in the process raised $900 for their charity of choice - Wellington Free Ambulance.

Family spokesperson Emily, aged 13, says the whole idea started when her mum said she would give her and her brother Dan and cousin Olivia $100 if they could go without sugar for a month.

“We picked Wellington Free Ambu-lance because if people don't donate, it won't be free anymore,” Emily says.

Diana Crossan, chief executive for Wellington Free Ambulance says that the Young/Rollings youngsters are bud-ding leaders in our community.

“Wellington Free Ambulance has to raise $4million every year. That works out to $10 per person per year across our region. The Young/Rollings family has just done the work of 90 people.”

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Looking to grow your home-based food business but cannot fi nd the space?

Amesbury School in Churton Park has a semi-commercial kitchen available for hire, and the school is welcoming the local community to use its facilities.

The kitchen was opened in 2012 alongside Amesbury School Hall and is a spacious, clean and fully equipped space ideally suited to food preparation, with a current

hygiene certifi cate issued by the Wellington City Council.

Amesbury School Principal, Les-ley Murrihy says for many people, growing their home-based food production business is limited by food safety regulations that requires food preparation to occur in a certi-fi ed or commercial kitchen.

“The cost and ease of access to such a facility can be prohibitive, so those businesses never grow.

The reasonable hire rates at Ames-bury mean that businesses are able to take the next step in growing their

business without investing heavily in set up costs.”

Lesley Murrihy says the school welcomes small businesses into the school environment “even during school hours as it gives the children a great opportunity to see businesses in action, not to mention the lovely smell of food wafting through the school.”

Prospective hirers are welcome to make an appointment to come in to view the premises by contacting the Amesbury School office on 477 3423.

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN: Amesbury School students William van Rij, Fynn Jones-Rawstorne, Emma Grey, Kyra Kaur, and Chris Moore in the kitchen. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

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Work started last week to main-tain the historical neighbourhood of Thorndon – and celebrate its creative heritage.

Planned in consultation with residents and local businesses, the project will improve the Tinakori Road village and neighbouring area and enhance its unique archi-tecture, culture and history.

The project, which will be car-ried out over the next few months, includes footpath improvements, laying new sections of kerb, two new seats, resealing part of Ascot Street, and installing two signs with local historic information.

New pavers featuring quotes from some local legends like art-ist Rita Angus, writer Katherine

Mansfi eld and composer Douglas Lilburn will be laid through the shopping area as a reminder of some of the famous artists who have been associated with the suburb.

There will also be some other maintenance work done in the Thorndon area including replacing kerbs and resealing the footpaths on Lewisville and Upton Terraces.

Wellington City Council’s Trans-port and Urban Development Committee Chair Councillor Andy Foster says, “Thorndon is Wellington’s oldest suburb and a jewel in the Capital’s heritage crown, and we want to make sure it shines the way it should.”

“Not only is the neighbourhood

special to us in Wellington, but tourists come from far and wide to experience the unique colonial architecture, and the remarkable creative landscape the area has provided for well over 170 years – and probably the next 170 to come,” he says.

“People will still be able to get to all the shops, cafes and restaurants, and we really encourage everyone to continue to support these lo-cal businesses over the next few months as we make the improve-ments to this area,” he adds.

The work will cause some dis-ruption, and some parking spaces may not be available at times, but the contractor, Downer, will be working hard to minimise this.

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Question: What do you want to be when you are older and why?

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Jacob Crume, 7, Churton Park

“I want to be a � re� ghter so I can � ght the � res and save people and stop the risk of them being killed. My dad is also a � re� ghter.”

Olivia Chin, 5, Newlands

“A doctor. So I can help sick children.”

Daphney Rodrigues, 12, Johnsonville

“I want to be a singer but I want to � nish my education � rst. I like singing and being on stage. My favourite song to sing is “As Long As You Love Me” by the Backstreet Boys.”

Kaiquan Davidson-Khor, 10, Newlands

“I want to be a tax lawyer because my dad is one. I went to his work and it looked cool. They had a computer, whiteboard and a coat hanger.”

Janelli Perez, 8, Newlands

“I want to be an artist because I love sketching so much. I mostly sketch my puppy, � owers and other animals. I love seeing the sea and ocean, it reminds me of a beautiful painting.”

Christopher Aherne, 9, Churton Park

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After a long wait, vet, Alastair Fer-guson and his team have returned to Crofton Downs to continue providing full vet services for their clients.

The brand new purpose-build vet-erinary hospital opened on Monday, August 4 in Thatcher Crescent. Alastair is really pleased with the new premises that include updated equipment, a large reception area with pet accessories, easy access and good parking.

A new cattery will be on offer once construction is complete.

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Crofton Downs Veterinary Clinic open for business

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The Probus Club of Johnsonville had the pleasure of celebrating the 100th birthday of one of its members, Dora Suuring recently.Dora can be seen cutting the birth-day cake made for her by the club secretary, Betty Lawrence.The Probus Club of Johnsonville meets on the third Thursday of the month in the Uniting Church, Dr. Taylor Tce. The speaker last month was Kevin Milne, who regaled the members with excerpts from his autobiogra-phy, The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag.

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Café Villa in Ngaio is displaying a number of artworks by local artists, some of which focus on the beautiful Ngaio landscape.

Ngaio based artist Helen Wilson and Mt Victoria based Judy Langham both have works currently on sale, including watercolours of Chew’s Cottage in Ngaio.

Helen and Judy are ex-perienced artists and are part of Watercolour New Zealand and the Wellington Art Club.

“I’ve been painting since forever. When I could hold a pencil,” Helen says.

Judy initially did oil paint-ing but changed got involved with watercolours 17 years ago.

“I like realism but I like the looseness watercolour forces you to achieve,” Judy says.

They both say art is always a challenge when you start because you do not quite know what the outcome is going to be.

“You can come up with something quite unexpect-ed,” Helen says.

Helen, who has lived in Ngaio much of her life, says her favourite piece on show is one of the Tarikaka Street because of the contrast be-tween the cottages and what surrounds them.

Helen and Judy say they have worked on the pieces within the last few months, some of which were created during a Watercolour New Zealand workshop.

“If you paint on your own, it not quite as fun,” Helen says.

All paintings at Café Villa are for sale.

BEAUTY OF NGAIO: Local artist Helen Wilson and Judy Langham have their artworks on show at Café Villa in Ngaio. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Ian’s production of The Sound of Music opens at Wellington's St James Theatre on September 12, starring internationally acclaimed performers alongside some of our own talented local performers. This acclaimed production of the legendary Rodgers and Ham-merstein musical premiered at the home of West End musical theatre – the London Palladium – where it celebrated a record-breaking 954 performances and was seen by well over two million people, before going on to enjoy sell-out performances internationally. Reprising her West End role es-pecially for the New Zealand tour is international opera star Lesley Garrett as the Mother Abbess. Maria will be played by Bethany

Dickson, who has just completed a box o� ce smashing season of the Sound of Music in South Africa and is now bound for Singapore with this production. The Sound of Music features an unforgettable score that includes some of the most famous songs ever performed on the musical stage including “My Favorite Things”, “Edelweiss”, “Do-Re-Mi”, “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”, “The Lonely Goatherd”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”, and the title song “The Sound of Music”. The musical tells the uplifting true story of Maria, the fun-loving governess who changes the lives of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children by re-introducing them to music, culminating in the family’s es-cape across the mountains from Austria.

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Children from Sunshine Kindergarten made a special visit last month to the Wel-lington City Council water pump station at the back of Karori Park last month.

Construction Contracts Limited has been upgrading a Wellington City Council water pump station at Karori Park.

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ON THE JOB: Alex Smith from Sunshine Kindergarten. PHOTO CREDIT: Neil Price.

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ON THE JOB: Children from Sunshine Kindergarten make a visit to the water pump station at Karori Park. PHOTO CREDIT: Neil Price.


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Work is going swimmingly on the upgrade to Keith Spry pool in Johnsonville.

Keith Spry Pool manager Matt Kilgour says over the past couple of weeks roofi ng over the teaching pool and air heating plant room has been complete, and the concrete has been poured for the fl oor slab for the eastern changing rooms.

The structural steel for the roof and walls of the eastern change rooms has also been installed.

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This is very dependent on our assessment of how the property is presented with them in residence. If it is neat, tidy and well cared for AND the tenants are agreeable to allowing buyer appointments we are comfortable marketing with them. Conversely, if it is less than lovely we will recommend the property is marketed once they vacate.

What about the loss of rent?The loss of rent when selling vacant pales into insignifi cance with a better selling price. A tenanted property where access can be diffi cult and presentation not up to scratch minimises the chances that buyers will compete for the home and drive the price up.

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Parents at West Park School could not wait for Johnsonville to get a cinema, so they have started their own season of movies.

On Saturday afternoons from July 26 until September 13, the school’s hall is transformed into The Little Retro Cinema, playing classics such as Bugsy Malone, E.T, and the Goonies.

Money raised above the licens-ing fee goes to the school, which is expected to raise at least $400, as well as selling popcorn at 50c a bag.

Parent Carl Johnstone, along with school council member

Deborah Donkin, got the series underway and selected most of the movies.

He was looking forward to watching the Goonies, one of his favourite movies, last week when the Independent Herald dropped in.

So far, around 50 have attended each session, including adults.

“Last week was Flash Gordon -we even had parents that came along that did not have kids,” Carl says.

Some children were selling pop-corn made earlier in the day, while keeping an eye on the movie. Hannah Rowe, 10, was collecting the popcorn money at last week’s

session – but she was not going to miss out on one of her favourite movies – Flash Gordon.

She thought the series was a great initiative.

“It’s really cool to watch good movies -it’s also cheaper too,” she says.

Satrine Donkin, 10, enjoyed see-ing some old movies for the fi rst time and snacking on the popcorn “but Flash Gordon and Star wars were very aggressive”.

Next week’s movie is The Prin-cess Bride, followed by Bugsy Malone, Mary Poppins, Grease and E.T. All movies start at 2pm on Saturdays with a $5 cover charge.

Movies at West Park School

MOVIES IN THE ‘BURBS: Trinity Donkin 7, Satrine Donkin 10, Hannah Rowe 10, and Maya Johnstone 10, buying and selling popcorn. PHOTO CREDIT: Dave Crampton.

By Laura Kavanagh

Fancy yourself good at cards or looking to learn?

A group of keen card players in Churton Park are looking to fi nd some fresh blood to join its 500 card group.

500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game similar to Euchre. For two to six players, it is most commonly played by four players

in partnerships but is sometimes recommended as a good three player game.

The 500 group have been meeting at the Churton Park Community Centre since it opened last year.

Bart Jones says 500 was one of the favourite things he used to do with his family while growing up.

“It’s good fun and a good way to socialise with people,” Bart says.

“You have to plan and ride the

waves of the game.“And the banter is quite enjoy-

able.”Mary Crawford says the group

is happy to teach newcomers the game if they are keen to learn.

“We would like more people to come along,” Mary says.

The group play 500 every Thurs-day at 1pm at the Churton Park Community Centre.

Everyone welcome.

Local 500 group in Churton Park

CAPTION: CARDS: Don Stewart, Maurice Castel, Mary Crawford, Paul Alpe, and Bart Jones enjoy getting together for a game of 500 every Thursday. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

Laura Kavanagh

Finding the right cosmetics and skincare to suit you can be a diffi cult task, but Mary Kay Skincare and cosmetics allows you to try out its products in the privacy of your own home.

Local Paparangi resident Sheryl is an independent consultant and business owner for Mary Kay, and believes strongly in the product.

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“Women love the way it feels on their face.”The unique aspect of Mary Kay is how it is sold to

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By Laura Kavanagh

A Northland woman is revisiting a dramatic role she played 68 years ago

Elizabeth Viggers, who is turning 85 this year is stepping back into the role of the lion for Drama Christi’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a role she last played when she was 17 years old.

Drama Christi is a non-profi t community theatre based in Wellington, which has been active for over 65 years.

Elizabeth says when she heard Drama Christi was doing the Shakespeare play, she thought it would be good fun to revisit the role.

She originally portrayed the role at a school production in England, but says she cannot remember too much about how it went.

“I know I can’t use the same accent as I did then,” Elizabeth says.

She says the production has been going very well so far.

“It’s a lot of fun for us – especially Shakespeare,” Elizabeth says.

Her daughter is also involved with the play acting the role of Bottom, as well as organising costumes.

When asked about performing in her eighties, Elizabeth says when it comes to acting, “you need to use it or lose it.”


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Elizabeth Viggers, who is turning 85 this year is stepping back into the role of the lion for Drama Christi’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a role she last played when

Drama Christi is a non-profi t community theatre based in Wellington, which has been active for over 65 years.

Elizabeth says when she heard Drama Christi was doing the Shakespeare play, she thought it would

She originally portrayed the role at a school

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FIERCE ROLE: Northland based woman Elizabeth Viggers will be reprising her role as the Lion, a role she played when she was 17. PHOTO CREDIT: Laura Kavanagh.

By Yang LiuMassey University Student

If you want to hone your com-munication and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment, consider joining Johnsonville Toastmasters.

Johnsonville Toastmasters Club, a member of Toastmasters International, a non-profi t educa-tional organization of more than 14,350 clubs in 122 countries, has been running for over twenty years.

It aims to improve people’s speaking and leadership skills.

The activities of a club meet-ing usually consist of a number of formal speeches; a series of impromptu speeches, known as table topics; and evaluations from other club members, but sometimes debates and contests are organised.

Marty Pilott, Sergeant at Arms and Immediate Past President of the club, says there are two kinds of people who are interested in Toastmasters.

The fi rst group are people who might be poor at public speaking, and want to improve their skills.

“People are doing public speak-ing all the time, even though they do not know it,” Marty says.

The second group is people who are already good at public speaking, and want to develop their speaking skills further.

The club also has members who speak English as a second language.

Marty says for this group of people, learning public speaking skills is another level of using language, which they are not going to learn from an English class.

He says besides gaining specifi c speaking skills, the most notice-able benefi t for club members is confi dence.

“Usually, when people fi rst ar-rive, they are shy and frightened about speaking in public; after they have been in Toastmasters for a year, you see confi dence in the way they speak.”

Johnsonville Toastmasters is now hosting the club speech competition.

Winners will represent the club in the area competition-Ngaio Toastmasters on Monday, September 15.

Johnsonville Toastmasters

Johnsonville ToastmastersMeeting every second Wednes-day from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at 18 Dr Taylor Terrace, Johnson-ville.

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In Johnsonville, a house in Birch Street was entered through a forced window. The interior was searched and a number of items were stolen, including a laptop computer, a printer, a video camera. a GPS unit, an iPad and keys to the garage and the vehicle inside it. The vehicle, a silver Holden Commodore, was taken. A house in Corlett Street was entered, possibly with a key or some instrument that would open the door, and cash from a wallet was stolen. An unsuccessful attempt was made to steal a red Mazda RX8 parked on the road in Trafalgar Street. The driver’s door had been forced open and the ignition had been pulled out. Two vehicles parked in the driveway of a house in Fraser Avenue were broken into. The Toyota Hiace van had the driver’s window smashed to gain entry and a quantity of tools were taken. The other vehicle, a Nissan Cefi ro was entered via a forced driver’s side door and the speakers and stereo plus a skateboard and CDs were stolen. Also in Fraser Avenue an Opel Vita hatchback was damaged when offender had tried to pull off panels from the vehicle.

In Newlands, a silver Nissan Primera parked overnight on

the street in Ruskin Road was stolen. Broken glass was found on the spot where the car had been parked. A silver Honda Integra hatchback parked in Kenmore Street was damaged when offenders wrenched a letterbox off its post and threw it through the rear window. In Khandallah, a green Honda Civic parked overnight on the street in Clutha Avenue was stolen.

In Churton Park a lawn-mower and a grass trimmer were stolen from an insecure garage in Hollydale Grove. In Churton Drive a red Honda Civic parked overnight on the street was stolen.

After a few weeks respite it seem that the vehicle thieves are back with us. This high-lights the need for a reliable and loud alarm to be installed in all vehicles that have to be left on the street or in a driveway overnight. The cost of an alarm has to be weighed against the inconvenience and potential loss of a vehicle, or if recovered, at least hefty repair bills. The security of keys is also important. Keys, including spares, to a car in the garage should not be left in plain sight in the house. Burglars are known to take them, and the car as well.

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By Laura Kavanagh

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! will tour New Zealand in August and Sep-tember with an all star cast, including Dancing with the Stars Stefano Olivieri.

Playing in 19 cities starting on August 16, OKLAHOMA! is directed by former Shortland Street star Geraldine Brophy and choreographed by Jeremy Birchall and Stefano Olivieri.

Stefano also plays the role of Will Parker, a role he says was right up his alley.

“He is very sincere character, one that everyone looks up too,” Stefano says.

Romantic leads Cameron Douglas (Curly) and Tizane McEvoy (Laurey) will be supported by experienced entertainer Ali Harper in the role of Ado Annie. Veterans of the New Zealand stage, Paul Barrett and Geraldine Brophy, will play Ado's Father and Aunt Eller.

Set in Midwest America in 1906, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colour-

ful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.

Stefano says he always want-ed to work with Geraldine Brophy again, and jumped at the opportunity to be involved with OKLAHOMA!

“It is wonderful, feel good musical,” he says.

“There are so many wonder-ful songs people will recog-nise, but not necessarily know where it is from.”

Australian based Stefano was adopted by New Zealand during his three seasons on Dancing with the Stars, part-nering Suzanne Paul, Tempara George and Geraldine Brophy, and is delighted to be returning to the country he considers his second home.

Stefano says everyone will enjoy this musical because OKLAHOMA! is cross gen-erational.

“You can bring your 86 year old and your 6 year old,” Stefano says. OKLAHOMA! will be play-ing at the Wellington Opera House on August 28th.

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By Dave Crampton

Not too many local swimmers get to swim in the same race as a world record breaker, and get a medal, but Karori’s Ra-chel Smart did just that in the weekend.After coming back from the Commonwealth Games with two gold medals, Lauren Boyle went one further at the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre, with a 1500m 15:22.68 world record in her fi rst ever attempt in a short course (25m) pool. While Rachel, started well, Lauren ploughed ahead of her. Rachel finished third, more than two and a half minutes behind Lauren.“She pulled out at the start of the race and I kind of died,” Rachel says. Lauren was pretty pleased at her world best time, a record unratifi ed at press time. “I’m really happy. I hope it gets ratified. It was my first 1500 swim in a short course pool – since I was about 12,” Lauren says.

“I just wanted to get some really good training in. I have done some good 800m times in a short course pool.” While Rachel was not aware that Lauren was to compete when she entered the 1500m event, she says it was exciting as well as daunting racing against the world’s best in her home town.“It’s a bit intimidating. It was pretty cool racing against Lau-ren Boyle,” Rachel says. “My goal was not to get lapped fi ve times – she only lapped me four times.” While Rachel came third, she picked up a silver medal, as Laurens’s swim was an exhibi-tion swim to give her a bit of training before the upcoming Pan Pacific Championships later this month. The gold medal went to Capital Swim Club’s Emma Robinson - herself back from the Common-wealth Games - in a Wellington record time of 16:28.93. Rachel was placed in the top fi ve in most of her events dur-ing the championships.

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TOUGH COMPETITION: Swimmers get ready for the plunge. PHOTO CREDIT: Dave Crampton

MEDAL WINNER: Eight-year-old Emily Reid proud-ly shows off her gold med-

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PHOTOCREDIT: Solbin Kang.

By Solbin KangMassey University Student

Khandallah has their very own award winning gymnast with 8-year-old Emily Reid winning a gold medal in her grade at the annual Wellington Opens Gymnastics Competition held in Newtown in July.

Emily, a year 4 student at St Ben-edicts School in Khandallah says she is “really happy and excited because I have never gotten a gold medal at gymnastics before.”

She was placed fi rst overall for every apparatus which included bar, beam, vault and fl oor, which gained her the gold medal.

She also won a trophy for achiev-ing the highest score in her age group.

Emily began gymnastics three years ago, when she was fi ve years old.

She started with recreational gym, and later began competitive gymnastics.

Emily says her strengths are fl oor and bar.

She says her weaknesses are beam simply because “you have to balance on a tiny strip.”

“I’m not as good at beam as the other ones because once I had a fall and then I got scared. It was a bad fall and it was a shock.”

Her dedication for gymnastics has her practising seven hours a week and this is set to increase to nine hours when she moves onto a higher grade at the end of this year.

Mother Diana Reid says she is “Absolutely delighted. She worked

so hard and the gold medal was a huge bonus.”

Diana says gymnastics re-quires a “huge amount of concentration” and Emily was particularly focused on the day of the competition.

Diana describes her daughter as very “spor ts-minded”, as she also enjoys playing netball.

She will con-tinue on with her gymnastics and her mother says, “she is very eager to do it again” to win another gold medal.

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Diana says gymnastics re-quires a “huge amount of concentration” and Emily was particularly focused on the day of the competition.

Diana describes her daughter as very “spor ts-minded”, as she also enjoys

She will con-

very eager to do it again” to win another

MEDAL WINNER: Eight-year-old Emily Reid proud-ly shows off her gold med-

als and trophy.

PHOTOCREDIT: Solbin Kang.

so hard and the gold medal was a

Diana says gymnastics re-quires a “huge amount of concentration” and Emily was particularly focused on the day of

Diana describes her daughter as very “spor ts-minded”, as she also enjoys

very eager to do it again” to win another

Khandallah’s talented gymnast wins gold

Calling all football enthusiasts By Laura Kavanagh

Twilight Summer Football Leagues are kicking off at Alex Moore Park on Mondays and Wednesdays from Sep-tember 29.

Five aside football is a great way to keep fi t, sharpen your ball skills and have fun with

your friends. The plan is to have junior

competitions from 4pm to 5:45pm and then adults for the remainder of the evening.

The kids league will play 8x40 minute games, while adults games are 2x20 min-ute halves and run for 10-12 weeks.

Monday Grades will be Boys and Mixed grade teams and Girls and Open grades will be on Wednesdays.

Referees are provided for all games.

Kids fees for the season are $80 per team and adults are $480.

Adult teams that register and

pay before the end of March get a free team kit (eight shorts and shirts)

You can register online at www.getyourgameon.co.nz/competition/johnsonville-twilight-football/season/tsf-2014-4/teams


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Independent Herald 13-08-14