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Christchurch: Another Galloping Gourmet by Steve Carter

Local Good News/ Christchurch
by Steve Carter
Picture the scene.
It’s been a busy day, you’re tired and you really don’t feel like cooking dinner. A takeaway beckons: cheekily, annoyingly.
You know that it’s not really the best food. …

Christchurch: Places of Tranquillity by Steve Carter

Local Good News Report/Christchurch
Places of Tranquillity
“We’ve lost our places of tranquillity.”
This was a feeling expressed to Michelle Whitaker, Coordinator of Healthy Christchurch, at a public forum following September 2010. The beaches were largely inaccessible for …

Cosy Container Love in Christchurch, New Zealand

By Christine Reitze, organiser of Container Love
Christchurch residents have created a giant ‘Container Cosy’ to brighten up the shipping containers they found in their neighbourhoods after the Christchurch quakes.  Pieces of the Cosy were donated …

Random Crafts of Kindness – by Steve Carter

Local Good News/Christchurch
It’s often the little things that make a difference.
When one is surrounded by evidence of destruction and change every day, as we are in this city, it is easy to feel overwhelmed or …

21st century organising in a shaky city

Steve Carter profiles young Christchurch ‘changemaker’ Louis Brown, who was part of the team behind the unforgetable and now multiple award winning Student Volunteer Army.
By now, just about everyone in New Zealand, and many beyond …

Positive news initiative launches from Christchurch this Friday

A positive news initiative covering the exciting, innovative and community-led responses to the Christchurch earthquakes is set to launch this Friday 4 May.
“The Student Volunteer Army has captured the world’s hearts and was last week …

Meet Steve Carter – ChCh’s brand new Good News Reporter

Q & A with Steve Carter, by Charlotte Squire

1.  Can you tell us some really important stuff about yourself?
Hmmm, “important” is such a loaded word.  I am an ex-pat Brit, born in Merseyside and raised …

Count your butterflies: A year on from the earthquake by Joyce Elwood-Smith

By Christchurch Grandparent and home owner Joyce Elwood-Smith

I have been thinking how we must collect and store all the beautiful moments and precious times we have so we can draw on them when needed, for …

Butterflies to cheer Canterbury

Monarch Butterfuly NZ Trust
Monarch butterflies are flying to Christchurch from all over the country in time for the 22 February commemoration of the 2011 earthquake.
“We asked ourselves what we could do to help the …

Spring Time In Wellington, a Christchurch ‘Refugee’ Admires Silverbeet on Lambton Quay

By Joyce Smith
Recently returned from Vancouver where I fled after the February earthquake in Christchurch, I am temporarily living with family in Wellington. Much as I enjoyed my time in Canada, the little nuances, the …

Check Out the Lyttelton Timebank – ‘Back to the Future’

Here in Golden Bay, which is tucked away between two National Parks in the North West of the South Island of New Zealand, we have a very successful complementary currency in operation known as ‘HANDS’ …

Three Christchurch finalists announced in the 2011 Next Woman of the Year Awards

News release
September 12, 2011
Three Christchurch finalists announced in the 2011 Next Woman of the Year Awards
Sue Johnson, Janine Morrell-Gunn and Melissa Ruscoe from Christchurch are today revealed as finalists in the Next Woman of the …

Meet Five of Christchurch’s Newly Discovered Yummy Mummies

Media Release – Pregoli
8 September 2011
Christchurch’s Yummy Mummy Model Search
Pregoli knows it can be tough being a mum-to-be, and it certainly can be tough being a mum-to-be when living in post earthquake Christchurch! Pregoli, an …

Youthtown Break from the Quake Begins

YOUTHTOWN BREAK FROM THE QUAKE BEGINS
The first planes carrying 275 very excited Canterbury children arrive in Auckland on Monday, kicking off a two-week series of Youthtown organised Break from the Quake camps.
The …

Exploring a Future for Christchurch Together – Massive Online Gathering Friday June 24th

Magnetic South will now run from 9am New Zealand time, Friday 24 June to midday Saturday 25 June.
It is more important than ever to think about the future of Christchurch. We really hope you …

Fashion ‘Happy Hour’ Helps Rebuild Christchurch

Keeping Christchurch’s workforce looking professional and feeling confident – despite the makeshift locations many of are working from, is the drive behind a new concept being launched this Friday.
The Corporate Style Club is an …

Cantabrians Gather to Vision the Ways Forward for Commercial Centres

Christchurch City Council

3 June 2011
More than 400 people took part in Council-led Suburban Centres Programme workshops on the recovery of Lyttelton and Sydenham over the last three days to put their ideas …

Watch a Film This Sunday and Help Christchurch

Press release:  Variety, the Children’s Charity
Catherine Orr
Date: 24/05/2011
Cinemas nationwide have come together to help Christchurch families following the earthquake, by donating proceeds from two charity screenings on Sunday, 29 May. New Zealanders …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 303 – The Stories of Kindness Surface from Christchurch

As expected, people are taking care of each other in the wake of the Christchurch Quake.  Today the website Stuff reported that stories of deeply kind acts are beginning to emerge.  Amongst the comments of …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 302 – Gratitude

Today I’ve been focused upon the people of Christchurch during their day after the second big quake in six months.  They’re only five hours away from us, and I used to live there, so I’m …