Council’s contractors will begin this year’s harvest at Kairaki as well much needed firebreaks adjacent to the Woodend Christian Camp and to the rear of the Woodend Waste Water Treatment Plant, off Gladstone Road this week.

As supply chain disruptions continue worldwide, shipping delays of more than four months has forced the Council to find a temporary solution for the supply of tie-handle Waimakariri District Council branded rubbish bags.

The Oxford Fitness Centre could be looking toward an extension to their Pearson Park facility after a change to their lease was approved.

The community are invited to join Silverstream Reserve Volunteers and Rangers to a local community planting this Saturday between 10.00 and 12.30 pm.

An inflatable Aqua Play Park could be up and running in Kaiapoi this summer, after the Kaiapoi-Tuahiwi Community Board and the Waimakariri District Council gave the proposal the green light in meetings last week.

Nationally, since the beginning of 2010, there have been 48 recorded serious or fatal crashes involving a train and a motor vehicle and two collisions with cyclists. Twenty of these crashes were fatal. Sadly some of the Waimakariri District’s rail crossings feature in these statistics.

MetService New Zealand has issued a heavy snow warning for parts of the South Island including North Canterbury for Sunday from 8am until 8pm.

Following 18 months of construction, MainPower Stadium will open its doors to the public at the official opening ceremony on Sunday 8 August.