Posts by Hebe
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Lilith __,
A quote that spoke to me was,
“They’ve taken control of rebuilding our city. They’re like: ’We’ll tell you when it’s ready for you to use.’”That overt huh? Recorded it last night but was in no brainspace to watch.
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NZ Institute of Professional Photographers members capture my hometown five years on. Lovely.
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’ve felt something like that too. In a positive sense, it has reconnected me with the city where I grew up.
I think the fact that Public Address was able to be a space for Christchurch people to talk is the most important thing that’s happened on the website.
Public Address has indeed been awesome. I arrived after the February quake sometime, and I’ve got to know some great people locally and elsewhere via PAS. It was a forum for us when there were few places to meet physically, and even if there were I didn’t want to leave my then-young teenagers while aftershocks ripped through our rocky house. Coverage here has also helped prod public opinion, particularly after the floods of 2014.
You all have nothing to feel guilty about: this natural disaster and its aftermath has been a short straw for what seemed like the safest and most unchanging – boring? – city in the world. It is what it is.
The earthquakes have shaken up that entropy, and the demographics are undoubtedly changing: to a younger, more international and mixed-race city. That is all for the good and I enjoy the diversity every time I step outside the door.
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Meanwhile back to mental health, the NZNO details the problems in Canterbury services
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
we have just learned that, as of next term, we are losing access to the building that currently houses half our year 7 – 10 students.
Oh fucking fuck no. Why? (Message me?) There's not space for PBL study as it is.
My two teens go to that school; they love it and their academic results are great. I understood that the roll was at capacity this year.
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Cam Preston: 40% claims with big insurers unsettled (after Red Zone settlements removed). Add to this the many still invisible in the EQC "on hold" category and possibly to go to insurers or repair. Cam's figures are good, and It certainly allies with what I know of in St Martins, one of the most badly damaged areas.
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The public library: that gets to me too. If they'd wanted people to go back to the CBD, the library would have been key to attracting the locals.
As for school: it's remarkable that the school, despite being a makeshift site, is flourishing although the present site of the high school, Ao Tawhiti, is going to be problematic. It's at the old Teacher's College site and the use of the Library, cafe and Jack Mann Auditorium has been wonderful. Those are set to be demolished in the next year or so, which will seriously affect the day-to-day operations.
It's dispiriting and sad for all, yet the students and staff are still revelling in the unique learning environment where innovation and self-direction is key. The very skills our future adults need as a city.
As an owner of one the seriously damaged homes yet to be sorted, that is another story.
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CDHB member and former Ecan councillor Jo Kane yesterday broke the board members' silence on the machete being taken to mental health - and the rest of the health sector - and what it means for the Canterbury health system.
Health Minster Jonathon Coleman responds
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/dr-jonathan-coleman-17-feb/ -
Speaker: The Shaken Generation, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
there will come a tipping point…
There will.
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Speaker: The Shaken Generation, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
The people seeking help specifically for earthquake related trauma are just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are doing sort of OK but doing that much is taking all their reserves so it just takes one more bad thing – a bereavement or illness or relationship breakdown to tip them into a much darker place than they would have gotten to had the background radiation of quake stress not been there.
This is so true. Not one area of my nuclear family's life has not been majorly affected by the earthquakes in an major - and often unexpected - way. New events like this are still happening.