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80 years on and still in love EMMA-JANE MCLENNAN

Almost 80 years ago, a young Edna Noble was told by her mother that she couldn’t marry her sweetheart. She refused to obey her mother, and now 73 years later, she and that sweetheart – Gilbert Kessel – are still married. On Tuesday the couple, who live in a Halswell retirement home, celebrated their anniversary. Edna said not even curfew

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during the war years could separate the couple. “Isn’t it wonderful? We were really in love. We wouldn’t be without each other you know – even when the war was on and they said you’re not supposed to be out on the streets at a certain time of night, he’d still come down on his bike [to see me],” Edna Kessel said. The two met in the early 1940s, at a dance school close to Cathedral Square. The future Mrs Kessel had

STILL IN LOVE: Gilbert and Edna Kessel celebrated 73 years of marriage this week. Left: The couple’s wedding photo in 1942.

been going to classes with a girlfriend there, when she met Mr Kessel on the dance floor. In a Cinderella-type move – she had to leave him at 11pm to catch the tram home. “I looked ‘round and my girlfriend was going . . . so I had to leave him in the middle of the room. I was worried after that, that I might never see him again.” But at the very next dance, Mr Kessel was there. It was love at first sight for the two of them – but it was going to be two years

before they could get married. First Mr Kessel was sent off to war, and sent back shortly after because of hearing damage he sustained while working with fighter planes. He was one of the only ones from his squadron to survive, Mrs Kessel said: “I was lucky to get him back.” Next came her mother – adamant she should give up Mr Kessel for the “nice boy down the road.” “I said no to that, but I had to

wait until I was 21 to get married,” Mrs Kessel said. The two bought a nice home on Cashmere hill a few years later, and brought up three children there. They later moved into a retirement village. While Mr Kessel’s health is deteriorating, his wife is constantly by his side: “He can’t always hear what I’m saying, but I pat his hand and say to him ‘alright poppa.’ He seems to get the message.”

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All the shopping’s done, the tree is decorated and the presents are wrapped so what better way to relax and start the season than with the annual CSO Christmas Concert. The concert will set the scene perfectly with yuletide favourites and classical gems such as excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and sing along carols O Come all ye Faithful. Isaac Theatre Royal, adults

$35, concessions from $30,children, $15. YMCA Carols by Candlelight Thursday, 9-10pm This is a free family event celebrating Christmas with carol singing by candlelight on Christmas Eve. Carols, books and candles are available at the event, food and coffee vendors will be on site.

Latimer Square, free. Spectrum Street Art Festival From December 12 through to April 17, 9.30 through to 5pm. Renowned local and international street artists work will be on display at the YMCA for the street art festival. There are seven exhibition spaces on display and 10 blank city centre walls transformed into amazing works of arts. Hereford St, at the YMCA Christchurch centre ASB Tennis Canterbury Christmas Classic December 19 to December 23

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Community board attendance rate GEORGIA O’CONNORHARDING

Riccarton -Wigram Community Board member Natalie Bryden has the lowest attendance record for meetings. Ms Bryden has missed 13 meetings out of the 52 since elections. Board members are paid $25,610 while chairs are paid $38,532 annually. Ms Bryden, who does shiftwork as a nurse-aid at The Princess Margaret Hospital, said she struggled to juggle work and meetings. “I shift work and it is quite hard to get my shifts changed.” Community board chairman Mike Mora said Ms Bryden, does her fair share of the work. He said if people wanted “ordinary community-minded” people on the board, it was likely they would not be retired or wealthy and would need to work. “If you are wanting a range

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REPRESENTATION REVIEW Appeals and objections to the city council’s final proposal for the representation review close at 4pm today. Anyone who submitted on the initial proposal can make a submission on the final proposal, as long as it relates to their original topics. Appeals and objections must be submitted in writing, marked ‘Representation Arrangements’ and sent to Christchurch City Council, PO Box 73017, Christchurch 8146 or emailed to repreview@ccc.govt. nz. The Local Government Commission will hold hearings next year, and a final decision will be made by April 10. Full details of the final proposal are on the city council website.

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of good representation on a community board which we do have . . . it is a real battle,’’ he said. Mr Mora said most people on the community board have fulltime jobs and it was difficult to juggle work life. Meanwhile, city councillor Raf Manji had the worst attendance city wide, attending about half of community board meetings. But his board chairwoman Val Carter said he does vital financial work at the city council that clashes with the meeting time.

Lowest percentage of meetings attended by board Fendalton-Waimairi: Raf Manji – 54 per cent. Akaroa-Wairewa: Bryan Morgan – 54 per cent. Lyttelton-Mt Herbert: Adrian Te Patu – 59 per cent. Riccarton-Wigram: Natalie

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LIBRARY HOURS Christchurch City Libraries will be closed over the Christmas and New Year statutory public holidays. They will close on December 25 and 26, with normal hours resuming on December 27. Libraries will be closed over New Year from January 1-4, with the exception of Shirley Library, which will open from 10am-4pm. All service desks will also close from December 25 to January 4 inclusive.

Attendance rates for board members between the period of October 2013 to November 2015 • Mike Mora: 52/52 • Debbie Mora: 44/52 • Peter Laloli: 45/52 • Helen Broughton: 50/52 • Natalie Bryden: 39/52 • Vicki Buck: 41/52 • Jimmy Chen: 45/52 Vicki Buck

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Protect animals from Flame files Hailstorm keeps summer scorchers crews busy SPCA Canterbury chief executive Barry Helem

Every summer SPCA Canterbury responds to numerous animal emergencies involving animals suffering from heat-related issues. Weather forecasters are predicting a long and hot summer this festive season and with temperatures soaring, such intense heat is not only dangerous for humans, but for animals as well. Cars in particular, are potential death traps for pets over the summer months. Unless your car trip is for the benefit of your animal, I strongly urge pet owners to leave your pets at home. A joy ride in your car to the local supermarket or shopping mall, could be risking your pet’s life. On a 30 deg C day, the temperature inside your car will reach 39 deg C in 10min – even in the shade with the

shelter for protection from the sun and heat. Unfortunately every summer many animals succumb to heat stress but this can be avoided if people are vigilant and take proper precautions. Another common issue facing pet owners at this time of year is deciding when to exercise their pet. Owners should exercise dogs during the coolest time of day and ensure that the pads of their feet are not burnt on hot pavement or beaches. To help provide ongoing animal care advice to the public, SPCA Canterbury has created a ‘Beat the Heat’ tips page on its website; www.spcacanterbury.org. nz, encouraging animal safety during the summer months. If you are concerned about the welfare of an animal, please phone the SPCA immediately on 349 7057.

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Last Sunday’s wee hailstorm caused a sharp increase in emergency calls handled by the city’s firefighters. In the two hours from about 1.30pm, 30 calls could be attributed to the storm with some others later that were possibly weather related. The majority of incidents, 19 of them, were fire alarm systems in commercial buildings malfunctioning from getting wet. But we also saw a couple of houses set on fire by lightning, some properties flooded or suffering leaks, power lines down, and even a tree in Diamond Harbour struck by lightning and catching on fire. Otherwise during the week the most notable incident was the deliberate ignition of three townhouses under construction in Aranui on Saturday night. Three houses that would have made someone’s 2016 a special year. The year they moved into a brand spanking new double-glazed

unit. Except that is now delayed. By the act of somebody, possibly even from within the same community, whose contempt for that community is obvious in the charred remains. It’s sad. It’s also infuriating. I’m sure many in the community have the same question as I do. Why? Duckling rescues continue to consume the time of our crews with three this week. There was also the dismantling of a freestanding fire place flue in Somerfield last week to free a trapped bird. Only there wasn’t one. I’m sure our crew did their best to assist the slightly pink faced owner reinstate his flue before leaving.

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PUBLIC WARNED OVER STOLEN TOOLS Police are urging the public to be vigilant and contact them straight away if they are offered or see new power tools for sale at prices too good to be true. The burglary is reported to have taken place recently from a commercial property in Hornby. The penalty of purchasing stolen property could result in up to seven years’ imprisonment. Phone the police on 363 7400, or report anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Dreams to dance on the international stage may be a step closer for a Riccarton dancer. Calum Gray from the Anneliese Gilberd Academy was one of only two dancers from the South Island accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance to study a classical major. Academy director Anneliese Gilberd said she was proud of Calum for getting into the school. Calum, 17, said his greatest gratification in dancing comes from duet performances. “Feeling the connection through the art form you love so much – it feels incredible.” Meanwhile, the luck of the Irish was with a Villa Maria student who has qualified to compete in the 2016 World Irish Dancing Championships in Glasgow next year. Niamh Mortimer-Semple, 14, along with four other dancers from the O’Neill School of Dance will be travelling to the championships next year. “It is a pretty incredible feeling – I am proud to have been selected. It is quite exciting as well,’’ she said. Niamh said she will have a soft shoe dance, the hornpipe

FUNDING FOR TOUCH TEAM The Riccarton-Wigram Community Board has made a grant of $450 from the 2015/2016 Youth Development Fund to the Lincoln High School mixed touch team. The grant was to help the cost of attending the New Zealand Secondary School Touch Team Nationals. The team had three representatives from the Riccarton-Wigram ward including Logan Crofts, Nicholas Saunders and Logan Dick.

ELEGANCE: Calum Gray and Tegan Tank have gracefully leaped into the New Zealand School of Dance.

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From vandalism to professionalism The attitude towards street art has changed immensely for the better since the earthquakes. Georgia O’Connor-Harding speaks to one of the city’s most upcoming street artist – Ikarus about his involvement in the Spectrum Art Festival on how his work evolved from vandalism into professionalism Hello! Before we even start the first thing I’d like to know is what is your real name? Nick Tam, basically Ikarus is just the name I write. I do a lot of traditional font-based graffiti and that’s just what I write. Great name. The Spectrum festival is in full swing at the moment. How have you prepared for it? Myself and two other artists Wongi Wilson and Jacob Yikes worked on one of the rooms at the YMCA and transformed a empty squash court into an abandoned factory warehouse type area. We had a bunch of walls built and artificially aged everything, and built different rooms then painted a graffiti style in it. The room it leads into has been set up as a nature-forest type scene. You are quite prolific with your work. Are you excited about the Spectrum festival.

Yes, definitely. There is a good attitude towards graffiti especially since the earthquakes. A lot of people are more accepting of it because they see what a positive impact it has on a space now. Yes, because I was going to ask you what effect the earthquakes have had on street art. I believe it is quite positive. Yes, definitely. Obviously as an artist myself we’ve always seen it from that view. A lot of the places we paint do tend to be run down – not that fancy space in the first place so I’ve always seen it as a place that makes areas better. But I guess with how much destruction, demolition and rebuilding that has been going on, there is a lot of areas that everyone was getting sick of seeing. They can now see the difference a bunch of bright colours and pictures make.

What do you think about the negative connotations associated to street art? It’s a fine line between being understandable and ignorance. It depends on what level of interaction people have had with street art. If someone’s only experience with graffiti is that they have had property of their’s tagged then you can understand the negativity. But people just seem to be afraid of any work that comes out of a spray can. There is just a negative connotation to a spray can. So if it is that sort of thing then I find it kind of ridiculous. It doesn’t seem to happen much anymore but in the past someone might have said: “I’d rather just see a blank wall – I don’t understand why this is better than the other side of it’’. Do you think Christchurch could be becoming almost like the street art hub of New Zealand? Absolutely. There are plans to definitely make that the case if not of the Southern Hemisphere or the world. People are trying to do ground-breaking things. Even all the shows that have happened in the past three years have been up there. On a more personal level,

ART: Prolific street artist Ikarus’ creativity and success today all comes from younger days of vandalism.

what has your most proudest achievement been? Being in the two Spectrum show in the past couple of years have been pretty good. The original show George Shaw and his team put on called the RISE fes-

tival at the Canterbury Museum was right up there because I never thought I’d get to paint and exhibit art in a museum. I didn’t even think Canterbury Museum would necessarily want to be involved with graffiti.

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– the other side of street art They were a bit hesitant about it but it turned out positive for everyone. All of their attendance records they previously had lifted. What’s the most interesting place you have ever spraypainted? Sometimes we’ve done large walls where you are painting on a scissor lift 8m in the air. But in my younger days, before I was doing legal work, I painted a bunch of roof tops, abandoned buildings and train yards – quite interesting. And no one worried at all? Oh I mean, yeah. It just was what it was. You do these sort of things when you are young. When you were in school were you always getting in trouble for drawing or have you always been interested in art? No, not at all actually. I got involved in art strictly through the vandalism side of graffiti. I was a tagger kid when I was young. Tagging was the only thing I was ever better at than other people so you know small amounts of positive reinforcements eventually did wonders. When was the turning point? I got too old to be doing what I consider tagging and started

CREATION: One of Ikarus’ street art.

developing towards what I am today. A few of my friends were painting so we just kept pushing each other and it just sort of organically happened. Something negative turned into something positive. I run a bunch of workshops with different youth organisations or alternative education schools. A lot of that is where I get to work with kids that are not necessarily doing the best. When did you get into art? When I was about 20. Any in-

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terest I have in art , any mentoring tutor lessons I have – all of it comes 100 per cent from vandalism. I just wanted to vandalise stuff until I got to the point where I thought I was screwing up my life. If you are going to screw it up, do it better. I remember thinking I may need to stop because I might end up going to jail. Have there been any risks where you might have ended up going to jail? Yes, because I have been

caught a few times and been through the courts a few times. My first and second ones were about four months apart. So they are not going to keep letting you commit the same crime even if it’s petty. They’ll just say “you are clearly not learning your lesson – if we catch you again you are going to jail’’. Do you have family now? No, no kids, no way. Kids are cool but I don’t want to be responsible for raising a well-bal-

anced human being. I don’t know a lot of well-balanced human beings. I know a lot of stuff but I don’t know if it is going to be useful. At the moment I can kind of do what I want to do. Do you have any artists that inspire you? Not really any names that anyone has heard of. There are a few various graffiti artists around the world. A lot of them are the people I am closest to and know. Seeing people you know achieve things is much more inspirational to me. Definitely quite a process. Is it correct you do a lot of work in the eastern suburbs? I haven’t for a while but that is definitely where I grew up and got started. We do have a lot of work around the city. Any projects planned after Spectrum? There are a couple of things coming up but not decided yet. I have a couple of groups interested in workshops. I would like to do a group show or exhibition just between Jacob, Wongi and myself sometime soon. Somewhere central and not too big. Well I think that sums up everything. All the best for the future.

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The Soroptimist International Club of Christchurch celebrated the end of the year with a performance put on for them by the Westburn Primary School Specialist Music programme. Scholarships of $500 has been provided by the club for one pupil at the Westburn Primary School for the past 15 years. The 2015 recipient of the Soroptimist scholarship was Leon Thomas. The club consists of 90,000 women in 3000 clubs around the world which raises money for local and international projects. This year the group has supported Christchurch Riding for the Disabled, the Christchurch Mission’s Women’s Night Shelter and the Korowai Youth Trust. The group has also worked in collaboration with the local Rotary, Kiwanis and Altrusa clubs.

END OF YEAR: Soroptimist International Christchurch President Lena Metcalf, Bob Gaudin Director of Westburn Primary School specialist music programme Carol Pritchard, Juliette Ma, Lesley Fursdon, Justin Hodges and Leon Thomas.

Pupils donate presents to children in hospital Wharenui School pupils are making sure children in hospital over Christmas will still have a merry day. The pupils have been busy fundraising to have enough money to buy more than 100 toys for the children’s ward at Christchurch Hospital. Initially, the children planned to give their old toys to the ward but due to the need for cleanliness they decided to buy brand new toys. Year 3/4 teacher Felicity Jordan Rea said the school raised $250 yet more than $1000 of gifts were donated from Paper Plus, Toy World, Notty Horse and Baby Belle. Mrs Rea said the pupils wrote beautiful letters to different businesses and had a great response. The children were put into groups and given $50 per group. To ensure the toys were suitable and the pupils got the best bang for their buck, they researched online and as well as went to shops. Mrs Rea said the toys were wrapped and collected last Monday by a hospital representative.

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Riccarton High School has recognised its junior students sporting success at its end-ofyear prize-giving on December 11. Year 10 student Josh Paul was named the junior sportsman of the year, recognised for his success across a number of codes. Josh was captain of both the first 11 cricket team, and the junior first 11 football team that won the division one Wednesday competition. He also was a member of the year 10 A volleyball team, the junior A basketball team and the school’s futsal team. Outside of his achievements for the school, Josh was named in the Mainland Football Talent Centre and went on to be selected for a New Zealand training camp. Year 9 student Meg Rennie was named junior sportswoman of the year. This year Meg represented Riccarton at cross country, swimming and was a member

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Proxime Accessit was awarded to Julia Thwaites. Julia also received the Atawhai (Mercy) Gold award. Year 13 special awards Head Girl: Milly Young Meyer Cup for Leadership: Milly Young and Sherry Malik Head Librarian: Esha Dickson Principal’s Art Award: Siobhan McDaniel English as a Second Language, Denise Murfitt Cup: Jieun Lee Contribution to Music, Calder Cup: Samantha Crews Quinn Cup for Speech and Drama: Samantha Crews, Olivia Nally, Isabella Walsh Sr Leonie Award for Excellence in Oral Communication: Sherry Malik Mother Mercedes Memorial Literary Prize: Rebekah de Roo Best all round Senior Sportswoman, Sally Flynn Cup: Jessie Anderson

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Festive Season Survival Tips

Health

hristmas is a time for celebration, spending time with friends and family and enjoying festive foods and drinks. Nutrition-wise, this festive fare can be a challenge. Here are some simple tips to help you survive the festivities: • Don’t try to lose weight over the festive season. With parties, families and all the special foods that go with Christmas, it’s going to be just about impossible! Your main aim should be to maintain your weight (using some of the tips below!) • Eat regular meals. If you skip meals you are more likely to fill up on high fat snacks. It only takes a few of these snacks to add up to more calories than your usual meal. • Avoid going to a function hungry, you can easily eat a lot of party food in a short time.

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strategies to decline food offers. For example: “It looks amazing but I am full” or “I tried it and it was great”. • Chat and mingle. If you are bored at a party you’re more likely to hover around the food table or seek out the serving platter. A good conversation can distract you from the food. Avoid standing right beside the food table or bar while you’re talking. • Consider your drinks, they can add to the calorie count very quickly. Try diluting your alcoholic drinks, such as a spritzer (½ wine, ½ soda). If you prefer spirits, try a diet mixer. Lite beers are lower in calories and alcohol. Remember soft drinks, juices, punches, tonic water and flavoured mineral water can all have similar calories to alcoholic drinks. •Be aware of how much you are actually

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