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Te Anau woman achieves high honours in scoutingBy Julie Walls

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Sarah McCorkindale of Te Anau, a Te Anau Venturer Scout was presented as part of the Anzac Day Ceremony with both her Queen’s Scout by Mayor Frana Cardno and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award by Fiordland RSA President Roddy MacRae

These international awards are the highest that can be obtained by a youth member of Scouting and represented for Sarah over 4 ½ years of commitment and determination.

Sarah’s goal at the start of 2009 was to achieve her Queens Scout and there are 4 main sections of the Queen’s Scout based around Outdoors, Community, Personal Development and New Experiences.

She started Keas at age 6 years and has

been through the ranks in scouting.The awards include challenges in

the outdoors, learning new skills and developing an understanding of our local and international communities.

Sarah‘s experience in the 6th Form on the Spirit of Adventure contributed to her award, along with learning to play the keyboard and achieved Modern School of Music Teacher’s Diploma. To achieve this skill she had to travel down to Lumsden every 2nd week.

The awards include challenges in each section including tramping, learning new skills and interests, developing an understanding of our local and international communities and community service.

One of Sarah’s interests was teaching

younger members in the Marakura Yacht Club to learn to sail and she has continued in this role.

She also had to do tramps and had to have 3 practice tramps, learning to set up camp for 4 days and 3 nights before she did her fi nal tramp. Some of these tramps she took a group of 4 Girl Guides. Her fi nal tramp the Greenstone/Caples starting at The Divide included two others from Dunedin who were trying to gain their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, Peter Barrow Supervisor, Ben Barrow and Jill Livingstone-Green Te Anau Ranger Group Leader. Sarah also had the assistance of Bev Thorne who checked their packs to avoid unnecessary weight to be carried.

A Queen’s Scout must show the ability to both lead and work as part of a team.

They must be committed to the Scout promise, and the values of Scouting, which are based on citizenship, duty and service to others

Sarah is the fi rst Te Anau Queen’s Scout since Boyd Peacock earned his award in 2004–she is Te Anau’s 11th Queen’s Scout

The Queen’s Scout and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards are both remarkable achievements for a young person and Sarah has worked extremely hard over a long period of time to complete the requirements. It was very appropriate that the awards were presented as part of the community Anzac Day service said Group Leader Noel Walker.

Sarah said “She now has a new love of the outdoors and has recently been away tramping with the scouts at Easter Weekend.

“Tramps were something I tried to avoid.”

Sarah has just recently been away on Rotary Youth Leadership Awards in Timaru for a week with

another Te Anau woman Natasha Wonnacottlearning new leadership skills. They stayedat Craighead School and was involved inarrange of activities, including a numberof motivational speakers. Sarah’s highlightwas a visit to Burnham Camp to attend aconfi dence course including team building,trust and leadership.

She is currently in the process ofbecoming a leader in the Scout Section. Shewants to be involved in a Youth Movementand a job in the medical fi eld and is currentlyinvolved with St Johns Youth section.

She is heading to Mystery Creek for aScout Jamboree in December 2010/ January2011 and going with the Youth Servicesteam and will meet up with other scoutsfrom Te Anau Scouting Group.

Left to Right: David Frew (Zone Leader–Western Southland), Roddy McRae (President Fiordland RSA), Frana Cardno (Mayor Southland District Council), Sarah McCorkindale, Noel Walker (Group Leader–Te Anau), Kevin McRae (Regional Development Manager – SCOUTS NZ)

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Upcoming EventsJune 2010

Community Workshop - Part of Concept Plan Review. Supper Room-Real Journeys Events Centre. A light fi nger supper will be served. For more information call Diana Zadravec 03 211 1408 or email: diana@venturesouthland.co.nz

Wednesday 2 June 2010 6.00pm-9.15pm

Booksale 2010 organised by Friends of the Library to be held at Fiordland Community Events Centre Queens Birthday Weekend Friday 4 June 7.00pm-9.00pm and Saturday 9.00am-3.00pm. Donations for the annual booksale are greatly appreciated. Keep the books rolling in!! Drop off at the Te Anau Library.

Queens Birthday Weekend Friday 4 June

Fog Buster Mountain Bike Race. Enjoy a winters ride through Landcorp’s Stuart Farm on 485 Manapouri/Te Anau Highway over undulating 4WD tracks/paddocks. After the fog lifts take in spectacular views of Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri. Courses 6km-Recreational, 12km-Sport and 20km-Classic. Registration from Outside Sports Te Anau or from 10.00am, briefi ng 11.45am.

Sunday 13 June-Start 12pm

September 2010

Fiordland Players 50 year reunion in conjunction with their production to be staged September 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Function reunion for attendees Sunday 5 September.

Sunday 13 June-Start 12pm

October 2010 Fiordland Arts Society Multi Media Art Exhibition celebrating creative talent from local and surrounding areas.

Labour Weekend

May 2010

Fiordland Players. Fiordland Players. Auditions/Read Through at The Auditions/Read Through at The Shed, Sandy Brown Road. Inquiries to Kathy Gilligan Shed, Sandy Brown Road. Inquiries to Kathy Gilligan 249 7885249 7885

Thursday 20 & 27 May 7:30pm

Fiordland College Production. Fiordland College Production. “High School Spoofi cal” “High School Spoofi cal” at Fiordland Community Events Centreat Fiordland Community Events Centre

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Market at The Club. Market at The Club. Cnr Pop Andrew Dr & Jackson St Cnr Pop Andrew Dr & Jackson St Te Anau 1100.am-3.00pm. For inquiries, contact Donna Te Anau 1100.am-3.00pm. For inquiries, contact Donna Cudby on 03 249 4202Cudby on 03 249 4202

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Breast Cancer Pink Ribbon Fundraising BreakfastBREAST CANCER Pink Ribbon

Fundraising Breakfast (maybe the most important breakfast of your year)

Sunday 23 May 2010 - 10 am onwards at the Te Anau Club, Cnr Pop Andrew Drive and Jackson Street, Te Anau, Phone 03 249 7113.

Guest speakers are Gretchen and James from More FM and organiser of the event Carmel McDowall said “We may have a survivor speaking but is yet to be confi rmed.”

Tickets $20 limited tickets available so be in quick. Tickets are available from the Te Anau Club or Aden Motels.

Breakfast is awesome all the usual cooked goods, cereal, yoghurt, fresh fruit platter, pastries all very generously

donated by the Te Anau Club (I couldn’t do this event without them)

Wear pink, glass of bubbly provided on arrival, raffl es really just a fun morning to raise money for a serious disease that effects over 2500 New Zealand women every year.

Carmel McDowall, who is organising the event for the second year and is also a Girl Guide leader said this year they are having a Pink Star Challenge to raise awareness about Breast Cancer. Dargaville Guides are having an attempt at the world’s longest bra chain so we are asking ladies to bring along an old bra and we will send them to Dargaville and any of the better condition garments will be sent to women in Africa and Haiti.

The inaugural event was extremely successful with Guest Speakers Margaret Foster, who was at the time assistant coach for the Southern Steel and an ex Silver Fern and selector and Dr Katie Graham of Te Anau.

All proceeds are to New Zealand Breast CancerFoundation.

Fiordland Players – Celebrate 50 years2010 MARKS 50 YEARS since

the fi rst theatre group was formed in the Fiordland area. For some years the group wondered if we would make this signifi cant anniversary. All groups of volunteers have suffered attracting participants in today’s society. Fiordland Players is no exception, but we made it and look forward to another 50 years.

Looking forward we want to devise a strategic plan for the future and have formulated a short questionnaire to assist with our planning. We hope many people will give their opinions, impressions and thoughts. Copies are available from the Te Anau Library, the “Fiordland Players Theatre Group” site on Facebook, or by emailing fi ordlandplayers@gmail.com .

At this stage Fiordland Players are planning a fairly simple reunion programme to coincide with our production to be staged September 2nd, 3rd and 4th. The intention is to invite reunion attendees to the Saturday night performance and hold a luncheon/afternoon function after

the clean up on Sunday 5 September. Even after one notice in the Southland Times there has been some interest so we may have to provide more activities for the reunion.

Two nights of auditions, for the September production of the pantomime “Arabian Nights”, are planned for May 20th and 27th. These auditions are held as a “read through” allowing people to read the parts they are interested in. We fi nd this makes for a fun, less stressful audition. There are a number of good roles for men, so get ready guys. Always room for the ladies and children too. All welcome, even just to listen, the more the merrier.

Thank you Te Anau for your continued support.

Booksale 2010Booksale 2010Fiordland Community Events Centre

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Keep the books rolling in!! “Drop off at the Te Anau Public Library”

Town Centre Te Anau • Phone 0800 732 542

Friends of the Library Committee member Ted Loose of Te Anau sorting books ready for the booksale . It will be a Bonanza Booksale he said with plenty of puzzles, children’s books and fi ction, and we have sorted 1000’s of books.

Booksale 2010 is organised by Friends of the Library to be held at Fiordland Community Events Centre Queens Birthday Weekend Friday 4 June 7.00pm-9.00pm and Saturday 9.00am-3.00pm. Donations for the annual booksale are greatly appreciated. Keep the books rolling in!! Drop off at the Te Anau Library or give Ted a call on 03 249 9117.

Booksale 2010 Fiordland Players Cinderella Production

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Te Anau Control Gates being repairedBy Ted Loose

Damage to the Te Anau Control Gates, caused by the 23rd of August 2003 Earthquake, is being repaired by Breen’s Construction. The Design and Contract Engineer for the project is Brendan Sheehan of Mount Oram Engineering.

I was accompanied around the site by Meridian’s Team Leader, John Twidle. He explained that there are two sets of crane rails that traverse the structure - one set upstream, the other downstream. These rails were only slightly affected by the quake and are quite easily repaired. The rails that run parallel to the river however didn’t fair that well. These rails connect the upstream and downstream rails together. They were signifi cantly affected by the quake and will require a substantial fi x. They were shifted out of alignment and need to be re-installed with new foundations.

The old rails will be lifted out and either straightened or replaced. The foundations are of concrete, set up like railway sleepers. These will be dug up and a new system of supports for the rails installed. The site will be re-grassed in the spring.

John explained that the Gantry Crane that operates on these lines is used to lift and place stop logs upstream and downstream of the control gates to halt the fl ow of water and allow the gate area to be pumped out for inspection and maintenance. In the past this inspection has been

carried out every 10 years or so, but new rules to do with the safety of low dams are being introduced that may mean that the gates need to be inspected m o r e frequently.

A new set of Buoys has also been put in place at the entrance to the Gates. T h e s e buoys are far stronger and are more visible than the previous ones and there is very little chance of boats or kayaks getting through this barrier.

Supervisor for Breen’s Bruce Sutherland said that Security on the site is very tight. Cameras are monitored and controlled remotely, and the site lights also can be turned on remotely. Health & Safety is the Number 1 consideration of everybody working on the site, and, with high numbers of tourists crossing the structure every day; H & S has been expanded to encompass p u b l i c safety.

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Meridian’s Team Leader, John Twidle. (at left) and Supervisor for Breen’s Bruce Sutherland discussing damage top the Te Anau Control Gates.

Extreme wet weather for ANZAC Service in Te AnauAnzac Service in Te Anau was held in

the Fiordland Community Events Centre due to extreme wet weather, with people overfl owing into the supper room and out in the foyer. It was the fi rst time the venue had

been changed due to the elements.The weather didn’t seem to deter those

present and the parade started from the Town Centre taking the shortest route via the intersection to the events centre.

Fiordland RSA President Roddy MacRae said “We had a good turnout, considering the day and we are lucky to have had the events centre to have the service”.

The service started with a Wero Challenge to Russell Baker, Drum Major for the Celtic Band, followed by a rousing haka.

Dedication was performed by Reverend Karl Lamb and Guest Speaker Fiordland College Principal Linda Miller.

As part of the Anzac Day Ceremony Sarah McCorkindale, a Te Anau Venturer Scout was presented with both her Queen’s Scout by Mayor Frana Cardno and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award by Fiordland RSA President Roddy MacRae.

Anzac Day is growing in strength, aided by young New Zealanders understanding the true spirit of ANZAC Day.

The ANZAC tradition continues to burn bright. In fact many believe that it has lost no meaning at all and needs to continue that tradition and it needs to be the young people that understand the spirit of ANZAC.

Many tens of thousands gathered at traditional dawn services across the country, pausing to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli and pay tribute to the New Zealand servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifi ce in New Zealand’s military commitments.

PHOTO: JULIE WALLS

Marching through the Town Centre to the Fiordland Community Events Centre Fiordland RSA President Roddy MacRae and

veteran Lewis Nicholson laying a wreath

PHOTO: JULIE WALLS

Market at The Club May market

will be held on 30th May at our regular time of 11.00am until 3.00pm. This month at the market

we are focusing on “wellness and comfort” for the cooler months.

We have a fantastic selection of lovely warm winter clothing and accessories at the market. Carole Watson has an extensive range of beautifully knitted garments in a range of sizes and styles for all ages. If Carole doesn’t have what you are looking for she is happy to discuss your requirements and make to order.

We also have a fantastic range of clothing from Barr Originals. They attended the April market and had such a great time and were so popular they are returning again this month. Rustic Furs n Leather are also

back this month with a great selection to keep you warm in the cooler months.

To keep you warm and well on the inside we have delicious honey available from Barbara Lomax of Honeyfi elds, just what you need in a mug of hot lemon juice. Bernadette Powell will also be attending with a large range of fresh seasonal spray free veg, ideal for warming soups and casseroles on cooler nights or accompanying a tender cut of Organic Lamb from Annie & Rod of Rough Gully Creek . The Prenzels Range of products will be available from Fiona Hishon. Fiona is sure to have a wee something to add a bit of zing to a hot toddy, and to keep the winter ills and chills at bay Graeme and Pam Wohler will be selling the Rawleighs Range of products.

If it is comfort food you are looking for Donna Cudby will be there with freshly baked loaves, cupcakes and sweet treats.

There is a fantastic selection of food available from our regular stallholders and the Te Anau Club Bistro so come in out of the cold and enjoy shopping and a relaxing brunch or lunch at The Club