Canterbury will gleam

Press, 18 July 1980, Page 9

Canterbury will gleam

Canterbury should be gleaming, Christchurch twinkling beneath the smog, on Sunday morning if Television New Zealand’s “Community Favour Day” lives up to expectations tomorrow. The province should be vibrating tomorrow to an orgy of painting, cleaning, tree-planting, and good deeds as the community activities, promoted by the Network One regional news programme, “The Mainland Touch,” take a grip.

The scheme was put forward by Bryan Allpress, producer of “The Mainland Touch,” when it was noted in programme planning that there would be no Telethon this year. Mr Allpress said yesterday that there had been a particularly gratifying response from country areas. "Originally we approached only the larger towns, but very many smaller places have come forward in the meantime and said they want also to be involved. “As can be seen from the list (below), the areas involved stret'h from Hanmer Springs to Waimate and inland to Twizel. There are very few places in the province that are not involved in some way or another.”

People-‘in Christchurch had been encouraged to organise activities andprojects street by street, and to assist any cleaningup the local authorities would open the rubbish tips free tomorrow to non-commercial users,” Mr Allpress said.

"We are most keen for people to simply get together and break down the barriers which are sadly a part of modem urban life. To this end we know a number of streets where residents are simply getting together for a cup of tea.”

Mr Allpress said anyone who either wanted to offer help or was looking for a hand tomorrow snould telephone the office of “The Mainland Touch” (792-680) or contact their local authority. Up to six camera crews will cover activities throughout Canterbury, and “The Mainland Touch” on Monday will have a long special report on Community Favour Day.

Among the projects . planned are: Normal School, cleanup; Windermere House, working bee, jam-making, curtain-sewing, etc.; Bexley, work on children’s playground; Breezes Rd, children will tidy gardens; Cobham St, entertainment for elderly; Hartley Ave, street party; Brooklands, tree-planting; Bumside, children wil help elderly; St Mark’s (Opawa), afternoon tea for the elderlv; Burwood, unwanted goods will be taken away. In Sockbum, Riccarton, Waltham, St Albans Bryndwr, Sumner, and Upper Riccarton individual elderly people have asked . for help. . : In Hornby children have offered to clean cars; and in Avonside/Woodham there will be a recycling drive. BANKS PENINSULA Diamond Harbour, 1 working bee to dear up bowling-club site; Duvauchelle, a recreation area and barbecue site will be constructed. NORTH CANTERBURY Rangiora, landscaping Holmwood . Hospital for , the Aged; Kaiapoi, a river ' walkway; Belfast, deari-up of new reserve on old school site; Hawarden, Culverden and Waikari. collection of unwanted drugs; Greta Valley. Scargill, restoring arid cleaning up old hall; Hanmer Springs, gardening at pensioners’ cottages; Oxford, tidy-up of hospital ' grounds. , CENTRAL CANTERBURY Ashburton, community , walkway; Darfield, Glentunnel, Hororata, Arthur’s • Pass, Coalgate, Sheffield, ’ Springfield, Kirwee, Waddington, clean-ups, clearing of public, places, treeplanting and landscaping. ? SOUTH CANTERBURY Timaru, reserve clean- A up, Caroline Bay clean-up. landscaping, - f woodland ? walk, etc; Cave, pot-luck lunch; Fairlie, clearing ap- ' proaches; Geraldine, re- .. building car museum; Temuka, clean-up of domain; ~ Waimate, picnic area and landscaping; Pleasant Point, ; walkway; ; - .-Winchester, cleaning hall; Milford, • adventure .-’playground; •: Twizel, town .clean-up and ' concert; Otematata, aid for elderly; Omarama, treeplanting.