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| July 2003 |
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Peace and friendship
Deputy Mayor Lesley Keast, announced last month that she will not
stand again as a City Councillor. The Queens Service Medal holder, JP
and Wigram Ward representative says, however, that she will offer her
services for another term on the Riccarton-Wigram Community Board. She
and Mayor Garry Moore recently got a close look at a young camphor tree
and several seedlings which have been raised from the seed of a tree
which survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Japan. The tree is being raised in a nursery and it is hoped it will eventually
take pride of place in a Peace Park which has been proposed as part of
the Council's Peace City initiative. Peace and friendship will be at the forefront of the Mayor's activities in August, when he and Mayoress Pam Sharpe lead a citizens and Council delegation to Japan and South Korea. A major part of the delegation's itinerary is a visit to Kurashiki on Japan's Inland Sea coast, where a celebration is planned to mark 30 years of the Kurashiki-Christchurch sister-city relationship. The delegation's schedule also includes the Nagasaki and Hiroshima's commemorations of the WW2 atomic bombings. |