November 23 2016
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Selwyn lends a hand by Kent Caddick
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Selwyn has been rallying around to help those affected by the recent Kaikoura earthquake, which has devastated large parts of North Canterbury.
Farmer of the year title awarded
The Lincoln University Foundation has named Neil and Lyn Campbell as the overall winner …
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Sun shines on Courtenay Show
Organisers of this year’s Courtenay A&P Show are delighted …
Rolleston’s Rick Irvine with one of 12 trailers he has, full of relief goods for Kaikoura
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Nuts about walnuts
In 1998, Christchurch couple Ngaire and Tony Sigmund bought four hectares of bare land …
The major 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Culverden on Monday, November 14 and the Selwyn District Council responded by sending a team of around 15 to help with the earthquake response in the area. Jason Flewellen, Selwyn District Council’s Community Resilience Coordinator was one of a number of council staff who spent time in
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North Canterbury last week. The day following the quake he and others took the council’s Incident Command Bus to Waiau, along with 20 New Zealand Response Team members from Christchurch. “The response team managed to visit 130 properties to complete rapid impact assessments on the day, some of the houses there had major
damage and there were people who were understandably very upset,”Mr Flewellen said. “The visits were focussed on identifying any welfare needs people had. Our role was to respond to requests for assistance and resolve them or refer them to local civil defence headquarters to be actioned if needed.
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