Esther Ashby-Coventry16:55, Jul 09 2021
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WanderSearch Canterbury Charitable Trust South Canterbury volunteers Teressa May, left, and Dr Dick Price hold the devices used to track missing people with cognitive impairment.
Technology is often used to aid in the search for people with dementia who go missing, and now South Canterbury has funding to resource two volunteers to administer the radio frequency tracking devices. Community Trust Mid and South Canterbury has granted $5080 to the WanderSearch Canterbury Charitable Trust to allow for the extension of its services into Mid and South Canterbury. WanderSearch supports people with cognitive impairment and offers a loan system of the devices which can be worn around the neck or wrist.
He said many parents were struggling after losing jobs in the hospitality industry and the club did not want any of their more than 100 members, aged from three to almost 70, to miss out on training and play due to lack of finances. “It is a high-cost sport with the gear and hiring the ice rink which takes it away from the public.” The majority of students from Tekapo School play ice hockey and a few from Pleasant Point to Twizel. Junior and senior players train on Mondays and Wednesdays and compete in the weekends and in monthly tournaments. The Albury Ice Hockey Association grew from ice hockey played on frozen lakes in the high country and Albury from the 1930s.