CanCERN newsletter

Newsletter # 33 – 13 April 2012

You’re invited to a public seminar on the Earthquake effects on rivers and the estuary in Christchurch.

This seminar will feature presentations from a number of entities including:

New temporary community facility for St Albans

Thursday, 12 April 2012, 4:13 pm Press Release: Christchurch City Council

Day 415 - Another house finished off

Today, work by Addington Action on another uninsured house was finished. It's on Parlane St. The extended family of the elderly resident have now taken responsibility for everything to be done.

Excellent!

Day 415 - Window trim fixed

A repaired window got its new trim today plus a fair bit of no more gaps.

Tomorrow, the whole window will be washed down with sugar soap then get 2 coats of top coat paint.

Working to get as many houses finished as soon as possible before starting any more. So a queue is growing.

Insurance companies - rebuilds becoming repairs

EQC- update to the FAQ on TC3 land

Holy Trinity's monster garage sale - this saturday

Earthquake seminars - Mental Health Education and Resource Centre (MHERC)

Top-down, bureaucratic neo-liberalism is threatening the Christchurch rebuild – an ethical human rights approach is required.

Howey's Hydro Baths

Yes, I would like Saltwater Pools in Brighton. Oh yes. But, before we jump in that deep end, what we really need is to assess what the community's needs are. For example, is it a hot saltwater pool that we're after? Covered? 25-30m? And where do we position that kind of complex? Logically, to support the local business district we'd put it nearby; there appears to be ample land available. But why not consider Rawhiti Domain? Zoned for sport and recreation with a building housing many sporti ...

Seismic wallpaper - protecting old and vulnerable buildings.

Bayer MaterialScience, in collaboration with scientists from other agencies, have developed a material EQ-Top that can be applied to the walls of vulnerable buildings to give them additional strength. The "wallpaper" is made from a glass fibre fabric combined with a special adhesive. In combination they increase the stability of masonry and reduce the risk of death or injury from structural

town centres

Being Part of the Planning Process

We live in a democracy; some might doubt whether or not it's a good example of one, but one it is. Our governments, local and central, are elected by us and represent us. Nationally we have the right of referendum: a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. It is a form of ...

Day 412 - Community Board donates $8000

The Spreydon - Heathcote Community Board recently approved a discretionary fund grant of $8,000 to Addington Action for earthquake recovery work.

This grant is made up of $7,000 to cover the 2012 costs of running a work vehicle and $1,000 for information like street posters.

Native plants at Jungle Cup

Native plants at Salisbury Street

Greening the Rubble is making a garden of native plants at the busy corner of Salisbury and Madras streets, north of Biscotti, formerly Jungle Cup cafe.  It has been welcomed by Peterborough Village Residents Group, who will assist with ongoing watering and plant care.

Relocating the Coffee Zone garden

Day 410 - LUSH donates $3000

have donated $3,000 to Addington Action. The money was raised by the sale of pots of hand and body lotion called a "Charity Pot".

The money will be used to cover the costs of equipment and raw materials needed to support the weekly distribution of food of up to 400 hungry families in Christchurch South affected by the social impacts of the quakes.

Day 409 - Donation for safety gear

$2000 has been donated by Fonterra to Addington Action for safety gear. The funding has been provided from the .

The money will be used to buy safety vests, traffic cones, work boots etc for the regular volunteers.

Making your house warmer

The Community Energy Action charitable trust has a website with advice about energy use, making houses warm and healthy. There is a page dedicated to earthquake damaged houses with information on: Insulation and your EQC claim/repairs Taking advantage of earthquake repairs to make your home warmer Staying warm in a quake damaged house or temporary rental property How to get more information and

Council approves master plan for Edgeware

The Christchurch City Council has approved the development of master plans to support the recovery and rebuild ofNew Brightonand Edgeware’s suburban shopping centres.

Kick it Kids Holiday Programme and After School Programmes

Fun Football Holiday Camp – Second week of school holidays at Ilam School fields. All 5 to 10 year olds welcome. 5 & 6 years $50 full / $17 a day (9am to11:30am) 7 to 10 year $100 full / $34 a day (9am to 2pm).

Day 408 - Bathroom painted

A home in Hendersons Rd, Hoon Hay now has a freshly painted bathroom. Two top coats went on earlier today.

There is a couple of hours work left to do on this place. Still to do is remounting a bathroom cabinet and some .

The plan over the next 4 weeks is to finish off every repair job that's currently underway before starting any new jobs. So that about 10 places to complete.

Day 407 - Oceania resthome workers continue fight for a living wage

Photos from the picket this morning of rest home workers organised by SFWU and NZNO picket Villa Gardens at 207 Lincoln Rd Addington. No one can live on the minimum wage, especially in quake ravaged Christchurch.

Day 407 - Donation to clear section

The Salvation Army from Sydenham have donated $300 to Addington Action to pay for the costs of tip fees for dumping residual rubbish from a section in Walton St Sydenham.

The home belongs to a woman whose quake damaged home is being repaired by Addington Action.

Anything that can be recycled has been in order to reduce costs. The scrap metal, garden waste and timber all found homes.

WEA programmes for Term 2 2012

Finding sections to build on in the greater Christchurch region

Day 406 - Christchurch South Fruit & Veggie Co-op established

This morning, representatives from a range of groups in Christchurch South met to establish the or CSFVC.

The Co-op is a clone of the one run out of St Aidens Church in Bryndwr.

A packing operation will pack prepaid fruit and veggie packs every Wednesday morning for pickup by local community centres who will distribute to residents. The first shipment will be on Wednesday May 2 2012. Any group in Christchurch South wishing to join should contact Addington Action.


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Release of Cabinet Papers - Green zoning for Banks Peninsula

Edgeware Road Work Notice

Edgeware Road Work Notice

CanCERN provides Govt with 3 solutions that will solve insurance & EQC issues for many residents

St Albans Community Conversation – All welcome

You are invited to attend an evening of discussion to explore your needs and aspirations for St Albans. The purpose of the meeting is to gather a wide representative group of residents, organisations and other people interested in helping St Albans to grow and thrive. To acknowledge the enormous amount of work already happening, reflect on past achievements and develop a collective vision for the future.

Places of Tranquility

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahiatu, Bula vinaka, Talofa ni, Halo ola keta , Mauri, Namaste, Nǐ hǎo, Ahn nyeong ha se yo, Konnichi wa, Salaam Alekum, Ciào, Hola, Rohzj bahsh, Assaalmu Alaykum…

To all Christchurch Maori / Pacific / Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities,

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahiatu, Bula vinaka, Talofa ni, Halo ola keta , Mauri, Namaste, Nǐ hǎo, Ahn nyeong ha se yo, Konnichi wa, Salaam Alekum, Ciào, Hola, Rohzj bahsh, Assaalmu Alaykum…

Works Notice Update – Wastewater repair, Purchas Street, St Albans

Purchas St_update

EQC denies payout freeze on TC3 properties – The Press

The Earthquake Commission (EQC) says there is no freeze on maximum payments to green-blue zone homeowners despite some Christchurch residents claiming otherwise.

Relocating Red Zone houses

EQC denies payout freeze for TC3

The Value of a Volunteer

Today was my first day back in school for a long time. A very long time.

You know in maths or economics class way back when we were in school when we were supposed to be paying attention rather than steering out the window? The teacher was talking about fractions or GDP and on both days I was wondering ''.

Today I realised the point.



Underestimated? I think so.

While it's often easy to underappreciate the contributions a volunteer can make towards the va ...

Day 404 - new building trainer

Des Preston has joined the Addington Action Committee. Des works as a builder and will help train the workers on the repair crew.

For the last half year, Des has been helping with running the food parcel distribution system in Addington - Sydenham - Hillmorton. He will now join the food parcel subcommittee of Florence, Dawne and Dianne that organises the volunteers who distribute the parcels each week.

Lessons from Christchurch - how reinsurers are being hurt by health and safety concerns

Free school holiday activity – Christchurch Botanic Gardens

Leafy legends  discovery trail Friday 6 to Sunday 22 April Get amongst the Garden’s  autumn leaves and discover their amazing shapes and forms.  Suitable for 4 – 10 year olds. Pick up the trail booklet from the Botanic Gardens  Information Centre 10 – 4pm daily

On Being a Pacific Island

Way back when I was a traveller I was often confused and mildly insulted by being called a '' as I felt that, in reality, I came from the East. Confused, folks in Asia would then ask me 'But you're European, aren't you?'.

As lessons in childhood geography taught me, my island, , was (and still is!) exactly opposite to Europe: if we dug and dug and dug we'd arrive in Spain. That, as far as I was concerned, was about as close as we got to being European. On arriving in Europe I was fur ...

Survey - are you paying for an EQC apportionment claim that you never made?

CanCERN are interested to hear from those who have had their claims apportioned over multiple events, including an event they did not lodge a claim for. Click here to complete a very short questionnaire if you have been told by EQC that your damage has been apportioned (spread out) over events you did not make a claim for. Please note this survey is aimed at only those who have had their

Day 402 - Cafe, clients stump up for quake needy

Reprinted from
31/3/2012

By Sally Kidson

patrons have made a generous $1000 donation to a Christchurch trust that helps low-income people struggling with the impact of the February earthquake.

Beach Cafe owner Neal Bardsley posted a cheque to the Addington Action Trust yesterday.

Mr Bardsley said cafe patrons contributed $700 towards the fund through donations and baking sold at the cafe with proceeds collected for Christchurch. He had topped up the fund with the ...

Last night's CERA Red Zone workshop

Last night's CERA Red Zone workshop was an interesting event and, for me and those I spoke with, a useful opportunity to raise issues. The way it was organised and run contributed to it's success. Definitely time well spent. Five specialists (banking, insurance, estate, finance, real estate, and CERA) spent time in turn with small groups of residents. The purpose was for residents to be able

EQC update - EQConnects newsletter

Shonky repairs and the law

A few of the repair procedures contained in the Department of Building and Housings (DBH) Revised guidance on repairing and rebuilding houses affected by the Canterbury earthquake sequence (Guide) appear, to use a layman's term, shonky. One set of procedures in particular that spring to mind is the repair of cracked concrete slab foundations by the use of resin, grout or cement. Even the

Day 398 - $2750 from Belfast Rotary

Earlier tonight, Belfast Rotary Club presented a cheque for $2750 to Addington Action to help with the earthquake repairs.

This all happened at their weekly club night at the Belfast Rugby Club. Mike got to give a talk about Addington Action to a very interested group of people.

They were very hospitable to Addington Action volunteers Tracy and Mike.

Recovery in Your Community

Kia ora koutou,

CERA's latest announcement hasn't made life any easier for our Southshore friends; kia kaha. I hope when April arrives that you hear the results you need.

Many others are confronted with terminology that we've never had the need to know, until recently. My background in landscaping has meant I understand how contracts need to be managed, but it doesn't make me an engineer! I've learnt to live with liquefaction (and have found it to be a rather reasonable growing ...

Day 398 - CanCERN provides Govt with 3 solutions that will solve insurance & EQC issues for many residents

27/3/2012

Influential residents collective, CanCERN, is today calling for government to step in and implement three measures designed to streamline and speed up insurance and EQC settlements for Canterbury homeowners.

They involve instructing EQC to align its interpretation of ‘replacement value’ with homeowners’ insurance policies, paying out homeowners where EQC and insurers agree on the total damage figure but can’t agree due to apportionment issues, and convening a working ...

Vegetable gardening workshop

Australian insurance - resilience rating of properties.

Day 396 - Coronation St rep

Deborah Hooker is the new rep for Coronation St on the Addington Action committee. Deborah can also use NZ sign language and will act as a translator for members of the deaf community seeking help from Addington Action.

March Update

Day 395 - Addington Time Bank

The was launched today with a working bee in St Mary's Church Addington.

 I got to cut the ribbon.





The working bee was to take care of the beautiful old historic church and grounds.

Addington Action will be referring many of those needing minor assistance to the time bank, so that it can concentrate on assisting those who are suffering from the worst effects of the quakes and need serious help.

To join the Addington Timebank contact Cherylan at M ...

Day 395 - fundraising BBQ at Canterbury Crusaders

Addington Action ran a fundraising BBQ outside the Canterbury Crusaders new home grounds earlier tonight for the veggie garden projects.

Brendon, Trudy, Amanda and Mike cooked and sold 150 sausages for $2 each from 5pm till 6.30pm. We could have sold another 50 to the big crowds.

The fund raising BBQ's will be repeated at other events on a regular basis.

Parliamentary report on the Canterbury earthquake emergency response

A Parliamentary committee has found that the Government's emergency response system was not adequate to the needs of the February 22nd earthquake. Brief, and generally a reflection of what was experienced on the ground, it concludes with the news that there will be a cross-Government exercise to evaluate the lessons from the Government response to the earthquakes. The following is from the

It is Neighbours Day this weekend

Kia ora koutou,