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SARA supports campaign to fix EQC

Shoddy service, obstructive access to information and bumbling delivery are spurs to the creation of a citizens’ campaign to fix problems caused by EQC.

Day 600 - Addington Action trials on-line accounting

Addington Action has grown out of thin air with the emphasis on a lot of practical doing and so some catch up is needed on the paperwork in order with out slowing down the urgent repairs of uninsured homes.

The existing Excel spreadsheet used to keep financial records is becoming very complex and difficult to print off for people to look at. Any reports have to be created manually. All income and expenditure needs to be entered by account code (eg Building Materials), project (eg Repairs) ...

Festival of Transitional Architecture to light up city

Book launch tonight - Selling the Dream

Peter Beck

Lester Bryant

Awesome 2013 Christchurch Calendar! Fundraiser!

Garry Moore

Christchurch Voices

This blog and the Vimeo site of the same name is one of the forums designed to give the people of Christchurch a voice. It developed out of a sense of frustration for many in Christchurch, particularly those most affected by the earthquakes. Not only have we been up against the natual aftermath of a 'groundbreaking' earthquake series but we have been confronted by a recovery that has been characterised by a strikingly top-down managementthat has left many of those affected by the earthqu ...

R.I.P. Min

Southern Response - temporary repairs to houses

Day 596 - fruit & veggie orders

There are 303 orders from 11 of the 12 CSFVC distribution centres open over the school holidays for fruit and veggie packs next week. These will be packed and distributed on Wednesday 17 October.

9 Comcare Addington
25 Eureka St
12 Hoon Hay Presbyterian
50 Manuka Cottage
50 Opawa Baptist
20 Rowley Resource Centre
25 Salvation Army Sydenham
13 Spreydon Baptist Cobham Hall
37 St Bernadette's Hall
15 St Mary's Heathcote
47 Sydenham Community Centre

The ...

The Summer Pallet Pavilion is Open! (#22)

Corner Durham Streets and Kilmore Streets, City Bar open Thursday – Saturday only, 6 – 10:30pm. For what’s on and when visit: www.palletpavilion.com Gap Filler has completed its first temporary architecture BUILD project. Oh my!  The Pallet Pavilion is a transitional architecture project that functions as a community space and venue for events. It was [...]

The Pallet Pavilion (#22)

Corner Durham Streets and Kilmore Streets, City We’ve just recently appointed our new Pallet Pavilion management team who are coming on board across September and October. Yessssss! Yay for Rafaela Bolanos and Rosaria Ferguson our new team. Check out what happened this past Summer on the Pallet Pavilion website. To find out more about the successful fundraising [...]

The Summer Pallet Pavilion (#22)

Corner Durham Streets and Kilmore Streets, City The Pallet Pavilion’s Summer of events has come to an end and we say thank you and good-bye to Amy and Glen Jansen who have taken on the management of the space over the Summer. Through the month of May the cafe is open during the day but [...]

Edgeware Croquet Club reopens

Central Christchurch MP Nicky Wagner made the first stroke at the Edgeware Croquet Club on September 15, marking the opening of the new season and a reopening of the club after quake repairs.

Some houses need a lift above flood plains

Community gardens bus trip

A community bus trip, which starts off from Packe Street Park and wends its way through community gardens on the east side of Christchurch, is one of the highlights of the inaugural Spring River Festival planned for the weekend of October 20 and 21.

Holy Trinity Avonside - Parish and Community Fair:

Results of fundraising raffle for Moët & Chandon champagne

Prize – Moet + Chandon Imperial Magnum  won by Brad McClay Prize – Moet + Chandon Imperial Magnum  won by Trisha Blik Total raffle funds raised was $560.00.  Many thanks to all who bought tickets. And a special thank you to  Rai …

Day 594 - Addington Action leases 124 Garlands Rd

A special general meeting tonight of Addington Action members voted to sign a lease with the Christchurch City Council for 124 Garlands Rd in Opawa.

Packe St park marks Neighbourhood Week

Insurance silliness haunts St Albans complex

New Brighton Project Update October 2012

Checklist for TC3 home sales

Creating an ethical human rights culture for all

Demand for St Albans rentals pushes up prices

Post-earthquake plasterboard repairs

Great forum today...

Oct 8: “I hope Christchurch will …”

Some UC students recently completed this project with a little help from us… Well done Lucy McLeod and students from College House for the lead you took on this.

Oct 8 2012 – Feb 15 2014: “I hope Christchurch will …”

Some UC students completed this project with a little help from us… Well done Lucy McLeod and students from College House at UC for the lead you took on this. The project is on Colombo Street, near the intersection with Tuam. Chalk was used to fill out what you hoped will happen in our city […]

Oct 8 2012: “I hope Christchurch will …”

Some UC students completed this project with a little help from us… Well done Lucy McLeod and students from College House at UC for the lead you took on this. The project is on Colombo Street, near the intersection with Tuam. Chalk was used to fill out what you hoped will happen in our city […]

Spring River Festival celebrates Avon River

The Mairehau September edition

Measuring the impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes on the residential property market.

Day 592 - Red Cross gives more help with power and storage bills

The New Zealand Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Commission today approved more help with electricity bills for all households that received its 2012 Winter Assistance Grant.

Around 6000 households will receive a second payment of $400 which will be paid directly to their power company.

The previous grant was $100 for each of the four months of June, July, August and September.

Commission head Sir John Hansen says the second payment is in recognition of the fact many people are sti ...

See you tomorrow.

Day 592 - Comcare Trust joins co-op

This morning a meeting was held with staff at Comcare Trust in Addington to establish another distribution centre for the Christchurch South Fruit & Veggie Co-op (CSFVC).

AMI/Southern Response Insurance Watch Cluster Meeting

Framing the central city: again

Day 589 - Holcim volunteers paint building

Today 4 volunteers from Holcim joined the Addington Action work crew and spent the day painting a building in Strickland St that is being used by Christchurch South Community Gardens as a community facility.

Denise, Deirdre, George and Ngaire joined Des and Mike and they all did a great job putting on 30 litres of paint with roller brushes and paint brushes. The new mobile scaffolding was used for painting the high bits because it was safer to do it this way.

Teams of volunteers fr ...

Day 589 - fruit & veggie orders

There are 266 orders from the 12 CSFVC distribution centres open over the school holidays for fruit and veggie packs next week. These will be packed and distributed on Wednesday 10 October.

2 Addington Action
18 Eureka St
9 Hoon Hay Presbyterian
14 Generation Health
48 Manuka Cottage
37 Opawa Baptist
18 Rowley Resource Centre
21 Salvation Army Sydenham
11 Spreydon Baptist Cobham Hall
30 St Bernadette's Hall
13 St Mary's Heathcote
45 Sydenham Community C ...

Lumley Insurance Cluster Meeting

Tribute to Avonside

Tribute to Avonside: Service of Thanksgiving

Reminder – next public meetings to be held 9 & 10 October

At these meetings, you will be able to:

EQC – TC3 geotechnical updates

EQC - Apportionment explained

EQC have updated their website to provide more detail on what apportionment means, and how it is worked out.

Sumner Village draft master plan released for consultation

The Christchurch City Council has released for consultation a draft master plan for Sumner Village.  The 103-page report can be viewed here [Large file - PDF 14MB, on the CCC website]. CCC instructions on how to make a submission A submission …

Abberley Park pool to reopen for summer

Southern Response Progress statistics update for September

Southern Response Progress statistics update

Southern Response have updated their progress statistics to the end of September. The chart is here. .

Sing your heart out, St Albans

An old-fashioned singalong this Sunday aims to put the heart back into the St Albans Community. The event has been organised by singer/songwriter June Burney in association with Christchurch City Creative Communities and the Residents Association and is being held …

Sing your heart out, Christchurch

Day 586 - Food subcommittee meets

Addington Action's food subcommittee met again today at Christchurch South Community Gardens.

The meetings are held 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 3pm to provide support for the Christchurch South Fruit & Veggie Co-op (CSFVC).
A Christmas do will be held on Wednesday 19 December at the packing centre after packing is completed. BBQ plus bring a plate.

The last day for packing is Wednesday December 2012 and the first in 2013 will be Wednesday 17 January.

A 3 fold pamphlet to ...

Dino-Sauna for St Albans?

Geraldine Street repairs done and dusted

Patient Geraldine Street residents and their puzzled visitors will be shouting hooray now infrastructure repair work on the wastewater pipes in their street has finished.

Light party alternative to Halloween

Day 585 - getting site ready for new HQ

Today, the work crew spent some more time getting the Garlands Rd site in Opawa mowed and tidy for Addington Actions new HQ.

Also met some of the friendly neighbours who were curious about the future use of the land.

Local hero commends St Albans community spirit

Red Zone ID passes stolen in Champion Street

Not sure if the red zone extends to St Albans but red zone ids, demolition uniforms and order books were among items stolen from five cars at a group of Champion Street flats on Friday night.