Philip Chandler

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Journalist at Otago Daily Times

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Airport CEO reflects on top-flight tenure

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

His tenure having started unpromisingly with no passengers due to the Covid lockdown, Queenstown Airport chief executive Glen Sowry is leaving almost four years later feeling like he has ‘‘done everything I needed to do in my tenure’’. Mr Sowry - who is finishing in the middle of next month - said the timing of his departure was right as the groundwork had been laid for five or six years of development that would ‘‘ensure the airport’s fit for purpose for decades to come’’.
Gladding pondering switch in local government roles

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownQueenstown-Lakes district councillor Niki Gladding is not seeking re-election but is likely to seek a seat at the regional council table. Cr Gladding said it was time for her to move on.
Queenstowner wins global tech award

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownA long-time Queenstown consultant’s won a global award for teaching Kiwi farmers, through online learning, how to diversify farm income through tourism. Marijke Dunselman’s agritourism academy’s won ‘best use of technology in agritourism’ at the World Agritourism Awards which were held in virtual mode last week.
Airport fund has lift-off

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

A new community fund established by Queenstown Airport has made its first distribution of $50,000 to 16 charitable organisations. The ZQN Community Fund will hand out this amount each year to empower charitable groups responding to the most pressing needs in the Queenstown-Lakes and Central Otago districts. Administered by the Wakatipu Community Fund (WCF), 78 applications were received for this inaugural distribution.
Retail trio vacating Queenstown Mall

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

Sunday, 25 May 2025 You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownThree side-by-side chain stores near the top of Queenstown Mall are for sale as their leases expire. Sharing the same landlord, they’re stationery chain Smiggle and clothing chains Dotti and Jay Jays. They’ve all been owned by The Just Group which has tenanted the stores for 20 years.
Our homes’ silent kereru killer

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

A Queenstown gardener is appalled she’s now seen three dead native wood pigeons, or kereru, in Kelvin Heights as a result of glass collision — the latest early this month. Brenda Gosling, a gardener for 18 years, is calling on homeowners to implement bird-safe glass treatments like frosted glass stickers. Gosling says she stopped working for a Kelvin Heights client when he refused to take action after a kereru died flying into his glass balustrade.
Showhome showcases many features

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownA home building company’s new high-end Jack’s Point showhome is designed to show off a wide range of materials and ‘smart home’ features. The four-bedroom, 245sqm home, on Cunningham Dr, will be Fowler Homes’ local showhome for at least the next two years.
Granting organisation tops $1million

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownTalk about making an impact. At a ‘big reveal’ this week, Impact100 Wakatipu revealed a record 209 women have contributed $1000 a head, meaning the organisation will donate a record $209,000 of their money to local charities later this year. Two charities will again win $100,000 each with the balance divided between the other finalist charities.
Good prep for freediving worlds

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownEx-world champion freediver Kathryn Nevatt, of Queenstown, has limbered up for world champs in Japan next month by reclaiming two national records. In a sport based on holding your breath under water till you resurface, the 45-year-old now holds women’s national records in all four disciplines.
‘Unifying Threads’ has Auckland connection

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Philip Chandler

Saturday, 24 May 2025 You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownWhen Auckland artist Tori Beeche relocated to Arrowtown early last year, she only knew a few people here. However, that changed when Nat Tozer, founder of the artists-run mothermother collective she’d formerly belonged to, suggested she host its first exhibition outside Auckland.