CAB free clinics coming up – 22-26 January 2024
OUR CITY BRANCH OPENS ON MONDAY, 22 JANUARY AT THEIR NEW LOCATION AT 133 BRIGHTON MALL (SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING OFFICE) – 03 366 6490
We have several free clinics coming up this week. See details below for JP, general Legal advice and specialist ACC advice.
1. Justice of the peace – Monday, 22nd - 9.30-12.30. Hornby community centre. Drop in clinic – 03 349 5236
2. CAB volunteers in the community
- Tuesday, 23rd - 11am-2pm – Eastgate Mall upstairs in the Library. Look out for our yellow flag. Drop in if you have a problem you want to discuss.
3. Justice of the peace – Thursday, 25th - 9.30-12.30. Hornby community centre. Drop in clinic – 03 349 5236
4. Free legal clinics – Thursday, 25th – drop in clinic
- 1pm - 133 Brighton Mall (Small business accounting office) – 03 366 6490
- 6.15pm - 8 Goulding Ave (Hornby community centre) – 03 349 5236
5. ACC advice – Thursday, 25th - 6.15pm - Hornby community centre - Bookings essential email christchurchclinics@outlook.com or phone 03 349 5236
For our drop in clinics, we recommend phoning on the day to check the lawyer / JP is available.
We're talking new year resolutions...
Tidying the house before going to bed each night, meditating upon waking or taking the stairs at work.
What’s something quick, or easy, that you started doing that made a major positive change in your life?
Is now the time to change "The Garden City" Title?
Something to natter about over tonight's events.
Since the 2010/2011 Earthquakes, Christchurch has struggled to replicate or make a come-back to regain the "Garden City" title.
There are a large number of contributing factors, land and properties being destroyed and rendered inhabitable = gardens lost for many years or altogether, during the Chaos that followed, residents, businesses and the council had far greater priorities to worry about.
Now the dust has mostly settled, it is becoming more and more obvious that "The Garden City" title can never be lived up to again.
My observations are decisions are being made that are making it impossible:
Huge chunks of land are now mown wastelands, for exercising and dog walking.
Other areas have been converted into water retention/nature and wildlife reserves, none of the plans I have seen or heard, indicate a move back to a Garden City image.
Add to this that high-density housing is reducing the land to grow a garden on and the latest charging for water usage has had a visible effect on how people keep the berm outside their houses. Lots of the properties that are still intact for gardening are now rental properties and it is not hard to see which of those properties are as you drive around, but lots would not win the Garden Award.
I am not in favour or against any of the factors mentioned, I heard chch referred to as "The Garden City" and thought if we had to come up with a new name, what would we want it to be, that reflects a new Image?
Cathedral City is out
Cycle City.....
Wetland wonderland ......
Dog-Friendly City.
I hope you receive all that you deserve in 2025
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Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.8% Summer
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35.8% Winter
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
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