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Electorate boundary reviews
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p Children affected by cancer had a break from their everyday schedules at Living Springs Camp last week taking time to relax and enjoy a variety of activities at Camp Quality. “We are a volunteer group that gives children that have gone through cancer treatment, or their siblings a break focussing on fun, hope and happiness,” says Camp Quality regional manager Damian Young. “It is about giving them the opportunity to do the fun things they are missing out on. We have traditions such as our party night, the Canterbury Kings cricket team visited, the volunteer fire brigade ran the water slide for us, and car and truck enthusiasts took the children for rides. Camp Quality holds events throughout the year to fundraise for the annual summer camp. We couldn’t do it without our volunteers. The local Lions Club started the camp here in 1985 and still fundraise and come to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and clean up for us daily. There are so many highlights, and when the children go home, there are a lot of smiling faces. They talk about it nonstop for the next week.” For more information, go to the Camp Quality New Zealand website.
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Australia these past months,” said FENZ integrated risk manager Darrin Woods. “While parts of fire-ravaged Australia are now receiving much-needed rain, we are not likely to receive any of that in the short to medium-term. Our fuel conditions continue to dry out and the
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A restricted fire season is currently in place across North Canterbury and the Selwyn District. “We are entering what is traditionally the height of the fire season, and everyone will be incredibly mindful of the situation that has occurred in
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With warm and windy weather forecast for the coming weeks during a very dry summer, Fire and Emergency New Zealand has declared an extreme fire risk. It warns both urban and rural residents to stay vigilant. look of the hills around Christchurch and the inland foothills is of an increasingly brown landscape as grass seed heads mature and cure. In many areas, you will still find a green base to the grass sward, but this is rapidly drying off. continued on page 5 …