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he Matukituki Charitable Trust (MCT) has just com-pleted its busiest and most

exciting year since its inception in 2013 with sig-nificant increases in bird activity and numbers.

The Trust was established by Gillian and Derek Crombie to en-sure the natural attributes in Mount Aspiring National Park’s Matukituki Valley were protected and enhanced.

This is the first breeding season after significant predator control traps were installed in the valley and the Trust is getting reports of significant increases in bird activity and numbers.

The programme has been

managed over the last two years by Paul Hellebrekers who coordinates the programme.

Paul said it has been a busy sum-mer season.

“We now have 19 trap lines established in the West Matukituki

Valley. In all there are now over 400 traps in place. The lines have been cleared monthly on aver-age with low kill numbers which is good. Generally only a few stoats, feral cats, rats and hedgehogs are caught each check,” Paul said.

There have been widespread sightings of South Island robins

through the valley. Heather and Stu Thorne have nurtured the small robin population with traps over the last ten years.

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Wanaka band TeHight is competing in the Otago Regional Final for the New Zealand Battle Of The Bands contest in Dunedin this Saturday.

The band - Glenn “Gman” Hight (guitar and vocals), Matt Lahood (guitar and backing vocals), Corban Taylor (bass) and Tyler Bailey (drums) - will play a 30-minute set of original material at the regional

final. The winning band will go forward to the national finals in August.

The band has been working on a new record which is being produced by Nick Roughan and recorded at Wanaka Studios. Glenn describes their sound as “soulful melodies with a rocky grunt”. The album will be released this year.

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n recent years there has been an increase in “lake snot” in Lake Wanaka. It is clinging to

fishermen’s lines, sticking to water filters, clogging boat engines and making the water cloudy, but we don’t have a definitive answer about why it is happening.

In 2007, University of Otago Department of Zoology professor Dr Marc Schallenberg conducted a study to find out why the micro-scopic algae was appearing in the lake.

“This kind of growth is reported

extensively in marine environments, but rarely in lakes,” Marc said.

“It is formed by microscopic algae which secrete large amounts of sticky polysaccharides which cause the algae to clump together to make visible flakes. But why the algae do this and what effects it has on the lake ecosystem and fishery are still unknown.”

Adventure Wanaka owner Davy Pattison said the problem was getting worse. “We need to find out what feeds it. There is some sugges-tion that it is nutrients. It runs out of our stormwater system, farmers fertilize their properties and it runs into the lake. We flush stuff down

our sinks. Hopefully we can impress upon people it is not just a little algae in our lake, it could become a major problem,” Davy said.

Eco Wanaka Adventure owner Chris Riley is supportive of in-creased monitoring and said the lake snot was increasing.

“As far as I am concerned it is getting worse. It affects our boat engines. Every 100 hours you have to clean the gunk out of them.”

In early June there was a six hectare algae bloom in Stephenson’s Arm. Samples were taken two weeks later when it hadn’t dissipated and the samples were identified as cyclotella bodanica, the same

organism associated with lake snot.Guardians of Lake Wanaka president Don Robertson said, “algae blooms are a sign of nutrient enrichment. We need to have a management plan for the lake put in place and one of the obvious things we need to do is monitor nutrients.”

“The government has spent $220 million on Lake Taupo and other North Island lakes dealing with a similar problem. If we get in early and deal with it now, then the expenditure to rectify it will be substantially less. Far better to manage our way out of it before it happens than try and clean it up afterwards,” Don said.

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Queenstown Lakes District Council have sought a resource consent to establish a floating pontoon jetty on the western side of the Roy’s Bay boat ramp, Lake Wanaka. The proposed jetty will be used by the public and commercial boat operators and is intended to ease congestion on the existing jetty facilities during peak periods.

The proposed floating pontoon measures 19.8m by 3.85m and will be established parallel to the

shoreline with a pedestrian gang- way connecting the pontoon to the shore.

The construction will be anchored by six piles driven into the lake bed.

The jetty has been designed to operate safely at a full range of lake levels including the minimum and maximum recorded levels.

Written approvals have been obtained from Ngai Tahu, Kai Tahu ki Otago Limited, Te Ao Marama Inc, Land Information New Zealand and Otago Fish and Game.

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Thirty-two year 11 and 12 students managed to raise around $20,000 for their upcoming Spain trip, with Spanish fundraiser Fiesta de las Estrellas.

The Spanish-themed night, held last Friday, June 24, provided a traditional Spanish cuisine buffet and live entertainment for guests as well as an auction to help raise money.

Head of languages at Mount Aspiring College Caitlin Harvey said that the night had been hugely successful, with their goal of taking $2000 off the cost of each student’s trip met.

“The food was spectacular, and the whole night was just fantastic and lots of fun. We are so lucky to live in an amazing community where people get out and support our students,” she said.

The school would like to thank Maxine, Brent, Amber, James and the kitchen crew at The Venue, New World, Pernod Ricard, Kaan’s Catering Sup-ply, AJ Humphreys, Flying Trestles and La Rumba, Guy Alty, Office Angels, Mount Aspiring College’s

music department and all students and parents who helped. The full thank you list can be found in the online article at www.thewanakasun.co.nz.

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The Trust also had a confirmed report of 30 kea surrounding a helicopter during a trap place-ment project.

Paul has around 12 dedicated volunteers helping with the project. Benefits of the trapping programme are now being seen with rock wren and kea being observed.

“A highlight for this season was the discovery of a small population of long-tail bats in the red beech forest near Aspiring Hut. Long-tail bats are quite rare,” Paul said.

MCT’s next big push is to have mohua (yel-lowhead) translocated into the valley. They were last recorded some 30 years ago.“It would be a real achievement to have them re-established back in the valley,” he said.

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Upper Clutha’s Historical Records Society has received funding for the printing of its World War One book from the Lottery Grants Board.

The book, which the society began work on in October 2014, is expected to be completed within the next three months, with volunteer research assistant Ken Allan saying that the project being much bigger than first envisaged was the under-statement of the year.

When volunteers began research-ing each World War One soldier from Tarras, Hawea, Wanaka and Luggate, there were around 31,

which soon rose to more than 100. “The idea has been to write a story

about each soldier, and nurse, killed in action or who died of sickness or wounds after the war. It has been quite interesting coming across relatives and people that have been in my life,” Ken said.

Once printed, the society hopes to sell the book, which is set to be called Courageous and Free, in local bookshops, with all proceeds going to the Returned Services Association and Welfare Fund.

Research has been funded by the Graham and Olive West Charitable Trust, the Otago Community Trust and the Hawea Community DIP Charitable Trust Board.

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A group of Mount Aspiring College girls donned their high-vis jackets on a trip to the Clyde Dam this week, as part of Girls in High Vis awareness month.

The initiative, run by infrastructure industry training organisation, Connexis, encourages women of all ages to take a look at what careers in the power generation industry may be like.

MAC students, pictured, went along to tour the dam on Tuesday June 28 and to get involved in practical exercises.

Head of Computing Denise Bruns said that the day had been very successful.

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Well known Queenstown businessman Jim Boult ONZM has confirmed he will stand for the Queenstown Lakes District mayoralty.

The decision comes after continual approaches from within the community over many months.

Jim has lived in Queenstown for more than 34 years. He was chairman of the trust set up to build the Queenstown Events Centre, chair of the group raising funds for the new St John’s Ambulance building and, along with his wife Karen, acts as a major benefactor in the construction of the Lake Hayes walking track.

“I genuinely believe in a future for the Queens-town Lakes District that epitomises community. It has always been at the heart of what I have tried to achieve during my time here. As mayor, my ability to drive this future will be all the greater,” Jim said.

As chair of Child Cancer Foundation and the Government’s Tourism Growth Partnership, executive director of Hawkins Group, director of Real Journeys and the Civil Aviation Author-ity and former chief executive of Christchurch International Airport, Jim is a seasoned director with, he believes, the expertise to grow both the community and the commercial drive which will take Queenstown into the future.

Jim was awarded an ONZM in 2014 for his ser-vices to the community and to tourism, and given a life-time achievement award by the Queenstown

Chamber of Commerce the same year. “The Queenstown Lakes District Council has to

take the leadership role in planning for the future of the whole area and tackling the often unpopular issues of affordable housing, traffic and transport, managing the popularity of the area as New Zealand’s top tourist destination. This will take the combined efforts of a strong council and the talented staff who I know work within council,” Jim said.

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Recent changes to the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA) aim to make homes warmer, drier and safer and reduce fire-related injuries and deaths for the one million New Zealanders who are living in rental accommodation.

From July 1, landlords are required to have fire alarms installed. Prior to the changes it was optional. Tenants are required to regularly check their smoke alarms to ensure they are working properly and report faults to the landlord. Tenants are also responsible for replacing batteries.

Tenants may face potential signifi-cant liability in the event of a fire they or a guest causes, if they tamper with, remove or cause a smoke alarm to be inoperative.

Housemart Wanaka branch manager Andrea Bono said, “We have often heard in the past that the ten-

ant has taken the battery out of the fire alarm because it is set off when they burn the toast. That is what they are there for.”

Changes in respect to insulation require landlords to make a state-ment in the tenancy agreement on what insulation is installed in their residential property. If the insulation does not meet the minimum thermal requirements, or it is incomplete, damaged or damp, the landlord will need to either replace or install new insulation in the ceiling and under-floor to meet the current Building Code requirements.

“Landlords have until July 2019 to comply with the new regulations,” Andrea said.

Another change in the RTA revolves around the 2016 health and safety laws. Property managers have a duty of care to ensure the safety of everyone involved with or affected by work on or at the property they are managing.

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Wanaka Community Board chair Rachel Brown led a forum discussing responsible camping on Wednesday June 22.

Representatives from Department of Conserva-tion, Queenstown Lakes District Council, Land Information New Zealand, New Zealand Transport Association, Lake Wanaka Tourism, freedom camping wardens and councillors joined the discussion.

Rachel said those attending the forum, “agreed we should follow the initiative of the national Responsible Camping Forum and stop referring to it as Freedom Camping. We agreed that respon-sible camping is a better term for reinforcing the right attitude.”

“We agreed the three pillars we all need to get right are: information, enforcement and infra-

structure. All the agencies agreed to spend some time identifying where their strengths and weaknesses are within these three areas,” Rachel said.

The group will be meeting again in September to discuss how they can work together to fill in the gaps and ensure the best information, enforcement and infrastructure for the next summer season.

“The message we all want to get out there is that our district only welcomes responsible campers which means camping with the right facilities in the right places,” she said.

An interesting point raised at the forum sug-gested that if they were totally successful in their information and enforcement they wouldn't need any more infrastructure for responsible camp-ers. They also discussed the need to address the infrastructure provided at popular areas that had seen an increase in day use.

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A 30-year-old man has been issued with a trespass warning after breaking into Federal Diner and taking a nap once inside.

Police were called to the cafe just before 12.30am on Friday follow-ing reports that a man was asleep inside after setting off the alarm.

A police spokesperson said that

it was unclear how he managed to get in, and that alcohol may have been a factor in the incident.

Owner Emily Brosnahan also said that the trespasser had prob-ably had a bit too much liquor, and that the man had since returned to Federal Diner to apologise for his actions.


People jetting to Bali can now help women in the country who cannot afford health care to give birth in a safer environment, with the support of a local acupuncture practitioner.

Kate Perriam, from The Acupunc-ture Room, has appealed to the com-munity to help her support natural birthing clinic, the Bumi Sehat, by taking supplies over with them when they go on holiday.

Kate, who has just returned from a trip to Bali to learn more about the clinic, said that the Bumi Sehat Foundation relies entirely on dona-tions and volunteers, and the best way to help is to take supplies over.

“They use acupuncture to stop complications within the birth, and it is a really good example of how it can be used for people who can’t afford health care,” she said.

“I have a growing number of supplies that can help, but if they are posted quite often they get held up at customs and sometimes the clinic never receives them. I want to build

awareness that I have supplies that people in the community can take over if they are going over to Bali.”

Kate, pictured at the clinic, said that she has travelled with acupunc-ture needles many times and never had a problem at customs. Anyone wishing to help can call 0273211682 or email [email protected].

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Over the past few years, Forest & Bird, the Envi-ronmental Defence Society and others, have significantly increased their focus on the biodiver-sity aspects of council plans.

In Southland alone, between the Southland District Plan review and the Regional Council’s

proposed regional policy statement, over 20 Environment Court appeals were lodged in some way relating to biodiversity.

In Otago, a similar trend towards appeals looks likely, with both the regional policy statement and a number of district plans, including Queenstown Lakes, currently up for review.

So the first question we should ask is ‘what is biodiversity?’

A quick trip to Google, tells us that in layman’s terms, biodiversity is pretty much ‘the variety of life on Earth. It is the variety within and between all species of plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems within which they live and interact’.

Yet in resource management terms, the term has taken on a much more narrow interpretation.

An automatic assumption seems to be that when we talk ‘biodiversity’ we talk ‘indigenous biodiversity’, and more specifically, those matters captured within section 6(c) of the Resource Management Act, relating to significant indigenous vegetation and habitats of indigenous fauna.

In my view, it’s time to look instead at biodiversity as a whole. We need to put the diversity back into matters relating to biodiversity.

A wide range of values and living things together contribute to New Zealand’s natural resources.

As custodians of the land, farmers recognise and understand this. Yet, it is almost the ‘fallback’ position of environmental organisations to assume that the very act of farming is the single biggest risk to biodiversity. We simply don’t agree.

Too often farmland is classified as an outstanding natural landscape, or a Significant Natural Area, with Council then slapping down rules declaring the very farming activities that created what is subsequently so

highly valued, to be ‘inappropriate’. At best, this is nonsensical.

Farmers live on the land and rely on the land. They generally have a far greater understanding of, and sense of responsibility for, indigenous flora and fauna than other people.

With an approach of prohibitive consenting requirements, prosecu-tions or restrictions, there is little to encourage farmers to continue to undertake the resource-intensive and costly conservation work they do on their land.

The land at issue is generally someone’s private land, not the con-servation estate and therefore people should ask, not just take.

A prime example of this attitude played out in Queenstown during the Environment Court proceedings for Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of NZ Incorporated v Innes.

In that case, rather than knock on the Hawea landowner’s door, Forest & Bird instead went directly to the Environment Court in Christchurch, slapping down an injunction order preventing further farm work to be undertaken.

While the court ruled in the landowner’s favour, costs to put an end to the action were significant.

The way forward should be keeping in mind the important role farm-ers have to play in the sustainable management of land, and for matters relating to biodiversity.

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Volunteering Central’s senior coordinator Gil-lian White said, “it was great to see so many new faces mingling with those who turn up regularly each year. Volunteers were from diverse back-grounds, highlighting that there isn’t a typical volunteer; just people connected by making time to support someone or something that they are passionate about.”

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If you hate throwing out food, want some new seasonal recipes or just love the dishes at Fedeli, drop in to Wastebusters’ free Fairytale Food event on Tuesday (July 5, 12pm to 3pm). Fedeli chef Evelyn Vallillee will be cooking at 12pm and 2pm in the Wastebusters shop, focusing on making tasty dishes from wilted and unwanted food.

Wastebusters will collect edible food which would otherwise have been discarded, this weekend. The recipes will be determined by what is dropped off, but Evelyn expects the demonstrations to include making

vegetable stock, organic yoghurt, almond milk, stove-top crumble and a salad or vegetable main.

There will be tasting samples and opportunities to ask questions, plus recipes to take home.

“Once you know the basics, it is so easy to interchange things in recipes and use up what is in the fridge,” Evelyn said. “It is all going to be stuff you can make at home, nothing too fancy or intimidating, with some simple tricks like balancing acids and sweetness. You can create so much with food; that is why I love cooking.”

Unwanted food - no meat, fish or mould - can be dropped off to Eric at the Wanaka Wastebusters shop this Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3.


The first international after-dark flight touched down at Queenstown Airport on June 24, just in time for its passengers – predominantly Australian holidaymakers - to enjoy the opening night celebrations of the Queenstown Winter Festival.

Jetstar flight JQ219 from Mel-bourne touched down at 19:20 and passengers were greeted personally by Head of New Zealand Jetstar Grant Kerr and Queenstown Airport Corporation’s newly appointed CEO Colin Keel. They were also given their first taste of Queens-

town with free goodies provided by local businesses Patagonia Chocolates, Cup and Cake, The Remarkables Sweet Shop, and TravelPharm.

Colin said that it was a big occa-sion for the airport and heralded a new era in its history.

“Providing more flexibility for our trans-Tasman visitors to fly in and out at night in the winter months enables Australian holidaymakers to make the most of their time in our region,” he said. “With this flight they can be here in three hours with five different ski fields and a range of world-class experi-ences to choose from.”

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New World staff have been asked to be extra vigilant following a couple of incidents after closing time at the supermarket, including a gentleman gaining access and filling a trolley while night staff were filling shelves.It is believed that the intruder gained access through the main entrance as a staff member was leaving the building, and supervisors are asking staff to leave via specific staff exits to prevent similar incidents occurring again. Owner Dean Bartley, who has been out of the country, said that he would be investigating all security issues on his return.

Security alerts at supermarket

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Education Minister Hekia Parata announced a $37 million invest-ment in school property in Otago and Southland, including a $700,000 investment for two new classrooms at Mount Aspiring College (MAC).

Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean said the two new classrooms at MAC would help in addressing secondary school roll growth in Wanaka.

“I’m delighted that $700,000 in funding has come to the Upper Clutha area and I know that it will be put to good use by the local community. Wanaka’s population continues to grow, on the back of strong tour-ism and construction growth, and these increases are also being felt in the classroom as school rolls rise,” Jacqui said.

The roll at MAC is now 836 up from 772 at the same time in 2015, more than double the 385 pupils enrolled at the school in 2000.

A building construction plan has been undertaken at the college

over the last 18 months with two temporary classrooms built to accommodate students while other building work is done. Last year the new science block was completed and construction of five new general classrooms is currently underway. Completion is expected by July 20.

MAC principal Wayne Bosley said, “We are grateful to the ministry for their commitment to our growth.”

The funding is for an additional two teaching spaces, as well as two new replacement teaching spaces (on top of the six already approved). The project will become the new junior block and when finished will provide eight additional teaching spaces. The new classrooms will house students in years seven and eight.

“We are currently in the design phase which will be completed by the end of this year. Construction of the classrooms will begin in the new year,” Wayne said.

Pictured: Jacqui Dean and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye at the funding announcement in Queenstown.

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Aspiring Gymsports Gymnastic Club (AGGC) moved to its new premises in October 2015 and have already outgrown it, which has led commit-tee members to embark on a project to build their own facility.

AGGC coach Rae Patterson started the club privately with Kath Nichol-son in 2002, running the classes at Proactive Gym in a shared space. In 2010 the club became an incorpo-rated society and is now run by a community of parents on a voluntary basis.

The club moved to the Reece Crescent premises last year and since then class spaces have nearly doubled to 177. The competitive programme has quadrupled in the last four years from eight to 40.

“The current premises is only available for a year and the club is already outgrowing it. It was never going to be big enough, but it was the best solution while we plan for our new premises. It has allowed us to have our equipment set up without having to put it away all the

time,” Rae said.The club needs a premises four

times the size of the current one. “A minimum size of 400 square

metres would be ideal,” club president Mike Heller said.

The club were hoping there may be space for them at the new recreation centre, and during the consultation process had provided plans to Queenstown Lakes District Council showing how a gymnastic space would work in the new facility. The council has offered use of the basketball court.

AGGC committee member Bill Stalker said, “the offer of sharing the basketball court in the new sports fa-cility is unworkable due to us having scheduled classes for four-plus hours every weekday after school and set-ting up and packing away gear after each session is not feasible.”

Committee members are cur-rently looking for either leasehold or freehold sites, and AGGC is looking to self-fund the project together with community grants.

The club is currently seeking additional sponsors to help with funding.

Gymsports club aims to build own facility

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Taking a short break from an intense training schedule, rowing champion Anna Watson-Taylor popped back to Wanaka this week to visit family and talk about future goals.

Twenty-one-year-old Anna, who first began rowing with a friend as a year-12 Mount Aspir-ing College student five years ago, became the country’s female premier lightweight double sculls champion alongside Rachel Kennedy over the summer at the Bankstream New Zealand Rowing Championships.

Now living in Christchurch and training seven days a week as part of Otago’s Regional Perfor-mance Centre’s under-21s, Anna is setting her sights on more success in the future.

“My goal for next year is to train and get an under-23s trial, then if that goes to plan I am go-ing to have Tokyo 2020 in sight. I missed out on the under-23s this year which was gutting, but I am pretty excited about this year,” Anna said.

Pictured: Anna wearing her prestigious gold coat, which was presented to her in February this year after winning the title of New Zealand’s

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The Kiwi Sticks Marsupialamis defeated top league team Maniototo 4-1. Thomas Mitchell, Will Anderson and Max Porter worked well together to get into the scoring circle and, once there, Max struck the ball with precision to score all four goals.

Oisín Corbett, Zac Groves and Thomas Niles were dogged in defence foiling the opposition’s attempts to run the ball down the sideline, while Jessie Davidson made the most of a loose ball and hit the back of the net but, alas, the goal was disallowed as she was just outside the scoring zone.

Jack Sandford was almost impen-etrable in goals. Will Anderson was the linchpin of the match and the worthy recipient of the player of the day award.

The Kiwi Sticks Salamanders team fought hard in their match against St Gerard’s, Alexandra. Jack Sandford, unleashed from his goalie kit for a rare gallop, showed his attacking skills and linked nicely with other players. Hudson Weathington was rock-solid in defence and attack and scored the team’s third goal. The Salamanders put the opposition under sustained attack in the dying minutes but it wasn’t enough to clinch the game and they lost 4-3. Player of the day was Max Porter for his unceasing efforts in attack.

The Kiwi Sticks Orioles continued their excellent form against Clyde winning 7-3. Annie Wells and Nicola MacKay scored their first goals of the season while Amy Benson netted a hat trick. Swift running and solid defence from Ruby Cochrane and Zoe Eckhoff kept the opposition at bay while Billie Crowe and Thomas Benson used their experience to read the game and create opportunities. Superb sweeper skills and a calm head in the face of pressure earned Lily Wilson player of the day. Apolo-gies to last week’s goalkeeper, the Orioles won by 10-0 not 10-9 as

printed last week.The Mini Sticks Bumblebees team

showed a lot more tenacity than in earlier games and, despite a loss to Alexandra, are showing real promise. Sophie Tuck was a rock in defence ably assisted by Oliver Cotter. Alice Porter was player of the day for her vim and vigour in attack and defence.

The Mini Sticks Hornets drew 1-1 with the Terrace Taniwhas; a game in which Sarah Dougherty, Poppy May and Luke Gendall demonstrated a high level of attacking skills. Violet Davidson, Dot Anderson and sweeper Bradley Groves did well to limit the opposition’s score and feed the ball to the attackers. Fabian Medley, in his first season of hockey, found his confidence and won the ball several times. Dot was awarded player of the day for her excellent work in defence.

Upper Clutha Senior B team beat Cromwell 4-1 with Shea Williams, Madi Gainsford, Billy Sandri and Patrick Cotter (playing up from the Kwik Sticks team) all scoring goals. The team showed great tackling skills with some nimble manoeuvring and Ruby Burke was awarded player of the day for her solid passing and dependability in feeding the ball to the forwards and strikers.

The men’s team got back into win-ning ways with a comfortable victory over the Matakanui Mud Crabs. They took control of the match from the first whistle with crisp passing and good movement up front and, despite missing some clear chances, strolled to a 5-0 half-time lead. Hard work through the midfield and disciplined defence left the goalkeeper a virtual spectator, although Matakanui stuck at it in the second half and created a few opportunities, one of which found the back of the net. However, Upper Clutha continued to look dangerous in all areas of the pitch and added a further four goals to deliver a 9-1 victory. Dan Rae topped the scoring with a hat trick, Reuben Ward and Nick Browett scored two each and Connor Busse and Sasha Hill rounded off the scoring.

A week of promise and surprises in UC hockey

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It was a nail-biting finish for Wanaka’s under-14 football team, the All Stars, on Sunday, when they scraped together a 1-0 win to take out the league trophy in the A division. The All Stars were playing the other Wanaka under-14 A division team, the Ninjas. A draw or loss would have handed the league trophy to Queenstown, so it was a tense and closely fought match from the beginning.

The Ninjas had had their share of injuries during the season, but were back to their best with a full team. During the first half, they attacked unrelent-ingly, testing the All Stars defence. At half-time the score was 0-0, but after a rousing speech from coach Richard Vorstermanns, the All Stars played with extra intensity in the second half, which was matched by the Ninjas.

Then finally, 20 minutes before full-time, midfielder Michael Geologo made a break down the left-hand side and bounced the ball off the post. Striker Ocean Allemann, playing in his first season of football, booted the ball into the back of the net.

However the Ninjas refused to give up and piled on the pressure, causing the All Star supporters several heart-stopping moments including a last

ditch save by All Stars goalie Lucas Schafer. Under-17 division B team, the J10’s, were also

winners of the league trophy in their division. Wa-naka’s 31 junior football teams will have another chance to take home a trophy this Sunday, when the football season finishes in Alexandra with a knock-out finals’ day.

Nail-biting football finale

The girls in Mount Aspiring Col-lege’s Crowe Horwath netball A team are heading to Australia’s Gold Coast next weekend to play in a week of tournaments.

Although the draw has not been revealed yet, meaning the girls don’t know which teams they will be playing, they hope that it will provide good practise for the South Island Secondary Schools competi-

tion at the end of August. Team manager Tracey Gibson

said, “This will be a good precursor to the South Island Champion-ships, and that is what we are doing it for. It will be hard and exhausting at times but the girls are excited and it will be good preparation.”

The team fly to Australia on Saturday July 9 and return the following week, on Saturday 16.

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Trail Running magazine has named the Wanaka Sun Marathon in its top 50 overseas trail races.Described as the “UK’s number one magazine devoted to the exciting, adventur-ous world of off-road running”, a special supplement published with the latest edition

dedicated to the 50 best overseas trail races.The Wanaka Sun Marathon was listed alongside long distance epics like Marathon des Sables and the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc as well as half marathons in the Italian Dolomites and multi-distance races in the Transylvanian Alps.

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Aspiring Gymsports Club’s trampolining team has recently competed in the South Island Trampoline Championships in Christchurch. All team members completed their trampolining routines and double mini trampoline passes to a very high standard.

Deia Carson-Wolfe successfully performed some complex skills to become South Is-land Champion in the 11-12 years age group with a first place in double mini trampoline and fourth place in trampoline. She teamed up with Maya Mueller in the 11 to 12-year-old synchronised trampolining event where they were placed second.

Jessica Penney and Caoimhe Heath finished first in the nine to ten-year-old group synchronised trampolining dis-cipline while Caoimhe was placed third in double mini trampoline in a highly contested event and sixth on trampoline. A strong voluntary routine in the final from Jessica placed her fourth overall on trampoline and sixth on double mini trampoline.

Imogen Dougherty, Maddy Thompson and Sophie Stalker competed in their first national qualifying trampolining

event in the 13 to 14 years age group. All three girls qualified for the final and finished in sixth, seventh and eighth places respectively. Maddy and Imogen then placed second in the synchronised trampolining event.

Aspiring Gymsports head coach Catherine Pell said, “All our competitors

performed well against the best trampolinists in the South Island. With 140 competitors across the differ-ent age groups, to finish with three South Island champions and placings for other club members, it shows the hard work, dedication and commitment

from them all.”Following their strong performances

at the competition, Deia, Jessica and Caoimhe qualified for the National Gymsports Finals to be held in Invercar-gill in September. They will represent Otago, competing against the top 20 trampolinists in their age group in the country. Deia is currently ranked her in the top five in the 11 to 12 years age group in New Zealand on double mini trampoline.

Aspiring Gymsports Club trampolin-ists have two further competitions in Christchurch before heading to Invercar-gill for the National Gymsports Finals in September.

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Trail Fund NZ, an organisation which supports the development of sustainable, dual-use trails around the country, has revealed that trails in Wanaka are yet to benefit from its donations, due to a lack of applications.

Communications manager for Trail Fund NZ, Meagan Robertson, said that since its creation in 2012, the organisation has received no applications for trails in Wanaka, although work has been carried out on the Seven Mile and Missing Link trails in Queenstown.

“Part of our appeal is supporting trails around the country and, if we can raise awareness of Trail Fund, then we would love to get some more submissions from clubs in Wanaka,” Meagan said.

Money from the organisation typically goes towards tracks that are not on Department of Conservation land, as a separate fund of $350,000 a year is used to develop these.

Wanaka-based natural skin balm business Sweet Cheeks has recently got behind the

fund, and will donate one percent of their profits to the fund’s “One Percent for Trails” programme.

More track improvement encouraged

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