Lyttelton/Mt Herbert Community News
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The winter festival around the Lyttelton Harbour was a terrific success, locals say. The port township looked its best, with many businesses and homes lighting up for the week-long Festival of Lights, with a series of events leading up to the Street Party on 16 June. |
Waste not, want not
It’s an idea which has grown. The popular green waste recycling scheme that set seed in Church Bay, then spread to Diamond Harbour and Purau, is set to grow.
Council has supported the Community Board’s request to continue funding this service and extend it, as needed, around other Lyttelton harbour basin communities.
The scheme provides funds for local resident groups to hire a commercial mulcher and operator who provides a door-to-door green waste mulching service for residents. It saves on bonfires, chucking green waste over the nearest cliff, or hitching up the trailer and trundling off to far-distant transfer stations. Users of the scheme are left with a rich source of compost or mulch.
Community service awards
The Community Board is on the lookout for special local people who are making a difference. Nominations for the 2006 Banks Peninsula Community Service Awards Scheme close on 1 August.
The Awards recognise outstanding community service in Sport and Recreation; Youth Activities; Cultural Affairs; Health and Welfare; Community Affairs; Environment; Bravery; and Extraordinary.
Nomination forms can be picked up from the Lyttelton Service Centre and local libraries, or contact the Board’s Community Secretary, Jeanne Pearce, on 941 6632. Be sure to nominate that special person. It’s unlikely they’ll tell us of their good works.
Safe home
Drivers will appreciate new areas of non-skid road surface being applied to some of the tricky corners on Dyers Pass. At $50 a square metre, the hand-laid bauxite surface will maximise tyre-grip in icy conditions.
A game of tag
Graffiti can have damaging consequences for a town’s morale and its economy. In less than a month since Lyttelton resident, Linda Jean Kenix, approached the Community Board for advice about starting a tag-busting scheme, the town has almost been painted clean.
Local businesses have swung in with donations of paint and brushes and local volunteers have joined the immediate response Tagbusters Team. The idea of painting out graffiti as soon as it appears worked in her former hometown of Austin, Texas. There, taggers soon gave up and the graffiti was eliminated. It seems to be working for Lyttelton too.
Mark your calendar
The Community Board meets every month, on the third Wednesday, from 4.30 pm. On 19 July and 16 August we’ll be at the Lyttelton Recreation Centre and on 20 September at Diamond Harbour Community Hall. People are welcome to come and talk to us about any issue of interest or concern. Meeting agendas are posted at www.ccc.govt.nz/council/agendas before every meeting. If you don’t have internet services, we can arrange to post one out.
Lyttelton/Mt Herbert Community Board members:
Claudia Reid, (Chair), Diamond Harbour; Jeremy Agar, (Deputy Chair), Lyttelton; Stuart Bould, Governors Bay; Ann Jolliffe, Lyttelton; Dawn Kottier, Rapaki; and Councillor Bob Parker. |
