"Kaiapoi" Blogs & Blog Posts

Volunteers helping out at the Kaiapoi Food Forest. Pre-existing and transplanted fruit trees and new plantings of berry bushes and natives have transformed this corner of our Regeneration Areas that was formerly known as one of the Kaiapoi Red Zones.

Do you want to know what is happening?  Try going to https://www.waimakariri.govt.nz/services/emergencies-and-recovery/regeneration/related-information/regeneration-videos   Advertisements...

Kaiapoi North School staged a fundraiser today in the form of a car boot sale. As you can see, there were things for the kids too!

​Thank you to all who have sent messages via different media. If you had asked me six years ago, newly elected to this position and one month after the September quake if I would have survived into a third term, I would have expressed my doubts. Ho...

This event is happening in Kaiapoi and Oxford next week. Lesley Elliott tells the story of her daughter Sophie’s relationship with Clayton Weatherston and the signs of abuse that friends and family did not recognise. Lesley has travelled all over N...

Six years ago today, a defining moment in our history occurred. In this part of Canterbury, our communities often talk about things as before or after the earthquake. So much has changed and we found ourselves going in directions we never thought we...

The draft plan that Minister Brownlee has issued for comment (after being prepared by our community) is, in the common jargon, “high level”. The next doing stages will require more detailed engagement with community and planning. I think...