Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon said the district council will investigate seeking partners from the golfing world and community to help buy the Pegasus golf course back from a Christchurch-based housing developer.
Pegasus residents and a housing developer look set to go head to head over a golf course, as the community sets up a war chest with the backing of local and national politicians.
Referee Jared Le Gros - who cut his teeth playing rugby in North Canterbury as a five-year-old - has returned to his old club to celebrate a milestone.
The physicality and strategy of a fast-paced ice hockey game is what keeps Cantabrian Cameron Tobin enthused with the sport, as she aims to make the national under-18 team later this year.
There has understandably been a high level of interest and concern from residents and the wider district about what the future may hold for the Pegasus golf course, writes Mayor Dan Gordon.
When rat-control star, Evie the Welsh springer spaniel, started working along the Ashley River near Rangiora she showed immediate prowess and enthusiasm for her task.
Ponds and creeks started to dry up at the Pegasus golf course this week, causing more stress for residents already upset about the property being sold and potentially carved up for housing.
Many North Canterbury residents are still reeling after hearing the Pegasus golf course has been sold to a Christchurch-based property developer which aims to cut it up for housing.