Onehunga Business Association newsletter 28 September, 2012

In this issue

For Security Help

Onehunga Security Update

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Mon – Fri 10.30am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 3pm

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Slug Gun suspected in window damage

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Unichem Onehunga Mainstreet Pharmacy needed to replace a large front window earlier this week after it was damaged by what is suspected to be a high velocity slug gun.

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Police reported that a young offender was apprehended with a slug gun in Onehunga this week and may have been responsible for this damage.

call Onehunga Town Centre’s ICON Security Guard

Satia Sami

Street Collectors coming into businesses

021 426 603

A few charity collectors have been in Onehunga recently going from business to business. This can be an annoying interruption, as some members have reported. If you do not wish to talk to these people, just ask them to leave your premises. Legitimate charities generally ensure that their collectors have a badge at the very least, and often a uniform. They should respond quickly and politely to your request to leave. If you have any trouble with collectors, please call Satia Sami, our Security Guard for assistance. Legitimate charities would want to hear any complaints you may have about individual collectors. Please contact the OBA on 636 8535 if you have complaints and we will pass these on for you.

Or contact the OBA office ph

636 8535

Outside business hours, on Sundays & Public Holidays please call Police Dial 111

OBA’s newsletter, website and Facebook editor, Debbie Harkness, (that’s me) leaves 212a Onehunga Mall today after 15 months in beautiful downtown Onehunga. Coming from my previous job as manager of Parnell’s business association, I’ve really loved working at the OBA with town centre manager, Amanda Kinzett, eagle-eye security guard Satia and, more recently, Briar Millar on events. Onehunga has a great heart with its busy town centre, and a great feel to it with the community’s very active organisations all working together to make Onehunga a great place to live and work in. I’ve taken a job covering communications and marketing for Parnell Trust, which runs Parnell’s community centre. After my work here, I shall be very well equipped! It’s been wonderful spending time with you in Onehunga. All the very best. Debbie

Red bins are emptied every Tuesday morning; Blue bins every 2nd Tuesday: NEXT on October 2 and October 16. Please put your bins out ready for Tuesday collection on Monday nights after close of business and remove bins off the footpath and back onto your business property first thing

Tuesday morning!

Onehunga Heritage Festival 2012 this Saturday Come to Onehunga Saturday 29th September, 11am to 2pm

Saturday is going to be a great day to be in Onehunga with loads of activities for family fun happening from 11am to 2pm along Onehunga Mall, at the Onehunga Community Centre and at our

performance area at St Peter’s Church on the corner of Church Street and Onehunga Mall.

We hope you’ve been telling your friends, relatives and, of course, customers about the day and have been handing out loads of our Heritage Festival programmes!

Our local festival is part of the wider Auckland Council-run Auckland Heritage Festival (29th September to 14th October), which has a growing following across the area and is heavily promoted in local media and through the website www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/heritagefestival.

There are still a few spaces left for the Heritage walks and Interactive Vintage Toy Demonstrations so call us quickly to book yourself or your kids in! All details in the Onehunga Heritage Festival programmes available at almost every shop in Onehunga!

Join our CEO Breakfast with John Key 7am Thursday 11 October at Mt Smart Stadium

Onehunga Business Association invites members to the first in an exciting series of CEO Breakfasts.

With the support of Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, MP for Maungakiekie, we’re off to a memorable start with Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key as our inaugural guest speaker.

Future CEO breakfasts will feature outstanding business and community leaders who will share their unique stories and strategies with you. As you know, there’s nothing like hearing firsthand from your peers about how they have handled the challenges and issues confronting their own businesses.

Cheers

Amanda, Debbie & Briar

Please note: If your business lies within the Onehunga business precinct you are automatically a member of Onehunga Business Association - paying a part of your rates to fund the OBA.

www.onehunga.net.nz www.facebook.com/onehunga

There’s live music at St Peter’s from Blast From The Past and Sisters Of Swing, a very popular Andrews Sisters tribute band, plus a fantastic pirate show from Captain Festus McBoyle and Fungal Finnegan.

Rubbish collections

This e-news is sent to you by Onehunga Business Association, because you are either a member, or you have an interest in the organisation or the area. If you do not wish to receive these communications, please let us know by phoning 636 8535.

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This year we’ve got a great programme of activities lined up including cart rides along Onehunga Mall drawn by a beautiful pair of giant (but gentle) Clydesdale horses, music, entertainment, vintage toy demonstrations, a maritime display, heritage crafts, face painting, a bouncy castle, and guided heritage walks.

Debbie Harkness leaves OBA

NEW OBA Committee (2012/13 year) Peter Gibson, President (Parkinson & Bouskill) - 636 3300 Debbie Leaver (The Library Café & Function Venue) - 636 7292 Elizabeth Bedford (Changes) - 634 1913 Gaylene Powell (Dress Smart) - 622 2400 Louise Bain (NutritionZone) - 021 967530 Rob Gallagher (Westpac) - 634 8555 Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy) - 622 2865 Bridget Graham (Deputy Chairperson, Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board) - 301 0101

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Please call us on 636 8535 if you have anything to report.

See more events at www.onehunga.net.nz/events Tell us about your event!

Saturday 29th September Onehunga Heritage Festival Sunday 30th September Daylight Savings Starts October 1—8 Evergreen Art Exhibition Monday 22nd October Labour Day Public Holiday Saturday 24th November Santa Parade & Party

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The OBA would like to hear from any other local businesses that might have had similar looking damage to any windows. Clearly we want to help Police clear up this sort of crime, where a gun is suspected, very quickly.

Onehunga Event Calendar

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Come to Onehunga for Heritage Festival on Saturday 29th You’re invited to our CEO Breakfast with John Key Get your business listed in the Onehunga Guide! mybiz Expo to help make bills smaller/biz bigger School Holidays next week - holiday programmes OBA launches two-year Business Plan Get a float together for Christmas Parade on Nov 24th Bargain hunting: offer something extra for free!

Onehunga Security Update Debbie Harkness leaves OBA Onehunga Event Calendar Rubbish collections: Don’t put bins out Monday morning!

We hope you’ll be able to join us for a delicious cooked breakfast and a chance to hear the Prime Minister speak about issues affecting businesses in New Zealand today.

Onehunga Business Association Amanda Kinzett, Manager Briar Millar, Events 212A Onehunga Mall (upstairs) P: 09 636 8535 F: 09 636 8542 E: business@onehunga.net.nz W: www.onehunga.net.nz Onehunga Onehunga1

Register from here

Date: Thursday 11th October, 2012 When: 7am sharp to 8.30am Where: East Stand Lounge, Mt. Smart Stadium, Beasley Avenue, Penrose Cost: OBA Members $30, Non-members $35. Tables of 10 $300. Payment is required in advance RSVP: Registration is essential for catering purposes and can be done in a number of easy ways: 1. Complete our online registration form here: http://is.gd/JohnKeyBreakfast.

2. Download a registration form online here http://www.onehunga.net.nz/?p=3193 3. Phone Briar Millar, OBA Events Manager on 636 8535 with your details.

http://is.gd/ JohnKeyBreakfast

Have you sent your listing for the next Onehunga Guide?

Onehunga Business Association launches Business Plan

As a member, you get a FREE listing in the Guide - Deadline October 1

Two-year plan for Association’s activities

The deadline for putting your business in the 2013 Onehunga Guide has been extended to October 1 to allow all interested businesses to confirm a listing or ad in this brilliant local resource. Please don’t delay - get your form back to us TODAY!! OBA members get a FREE listing BUT we still need confirmation of your address and contact details! Application forms have been distributed widely including in the August Onehunga Community News. If you’ve lost yours please download another at www.onehunga.net.nz/featured/2013-onehunga-guide.

The Onehunga Business Association (OBA), representing 450 local businesses, held its 2012 Annual General Meeting last Tuesday, 25th September at The Landing Restaurant & Bar on Onehunga Harbour Road.

In her report, OBA Manager, Amanda Kinzett, told members about the Association’s achievements and progress over the past year and introduced the OBA’s new Business Plan, which sets the Association’s direction and focus for the next two years. The Business Plan is currently being printed and will be delivered to members shortly. It will also be available online.

17,000 copies of the 2013 Onehunga Guide will be published in January and distributed to all local businesses and residents. In addition the Onehunga Guide is included as an online publication on www.onehunga.net.nz where it’s very well used (+3,900 views in 7 months!).

Members voted to accept two special resolutions to adopt the Auckland Region Business Improvement District (BID) Policy (2011) Partnering Agreement and the amended Onehunga Business Association Constitution dated 26 September 2012 replacing the existing constitution.

1. Business Listings = Business name + address + phone number. Listings are FREE for OBA members. f you’re not an OBA member, a listing costs only $60 +GST. A listing in the Guide also gets your business a listing on www.onehunga.net.nz.

New OBA Committee

The OBA Committee President, Peter Gibson thanked members of the last year’s committee, including Denise Jukes (now former owner of Jukes Espresso), Chantelle East (Urban Clothing) and Teresa Jacques (Westpac) who have left the committee; and welcomed new committee members Elizabeth Bedford (Changes), Gaylene Powell (Dress Smart), Louise Bain (NutritionZone) and Rob Gallagher (Westpac). They join members who continue on the committee: Debbie Leaver (The Library Café & Function Venue), Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy), and Bridget Graham, representing Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board. Members are invited to discuss issues with the committee. Their contact numbers are on page 4 of this newsletter.

2. Display Ads. Various sized display ads are available. Contact Sheryn Werner on 021 975 002 or see www.onehunga.net.nz/featured/2013-onehunga-guide for details.

Make your bills smaller & your business bigger

Learn how at mybiz Expo October 14 – 16 at ASB Showgrounds, Auckland The first mybiz expo takes place in a few weeks time, bringing together hundreds of exhibitors, high-calibre speakers and promotions aimed to give New Zealand’s more than 500,000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) a business advantage.

Billed as an opportunity to ‘make your bills smaller and your business bigger”, mybiz expo is designed to provide often time-poor SME businesses with access to the best available products, services and prices in order to boost their profits.

Onehunga’s 3rd Annual Santa Parade & Party Saturday 24th November, 11.30am to 2.00pm www.mybizexpo.co.nz.

Seminars confirmed for the mybiz expo include speakers from major companies Microsoft, Google, TVNZ, TradeMe, BNZ, isite Media and Natural Step NZ. Renowned financial commentator Bernard Hickey and SME Business Network founder Tenby Powell are also expected to draw crowds with their seminars.

If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor please contact Briar Millar on 636 8535 or email events@onehunga.net.nz. To register your interest to take part on foot or on a float, please fill out our registration form (attached with this newsletter or find one online at www.onehunga.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-Onehunga-Santa-Parade-RegistrationForm.pdf )

Full seminar and exhibitor information, as well as registration information can be found on the mybiz expo website: www.mybizexpo.co.nz. Entry to the Expo is FREE if you pre-register.

Onsite registration for tickets will be $20 at the gate.

Bargain hunting: offer something extra for FREE Consumers see this as better than a discount

School Holidays start next week!

Discounts may not be the best option when marketing a product; offering something extra free may work much better. A new study, led by Akshay Rao of University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, on consumers' attitudes to discounting revealed that most people are useless at fractions and so they much prefer getting something extra for free to getting something cheaper.

School Holiday programmes to keep your kids busy and entertained

New to Onehunga - Planet Kidz at 281A Onehunga Mall Planet Kidz is new to Onehunga and offers affordable child care solutions for busy working parents including a $20/day Holiday Program (M-F, 9am-3pm). Also Drop in Care (M-F, 7:00am-3:00pm) $5/ hour; Before School Care (M-F,7am-8:45am) $6/session; After School Care (M-F, 3:00pm-6:00pm) $10/session; Extended Care (M-F,6:00pm-10pm) $8/hour. No reservations required except for Holiday Programme, Extended Care and Party Venue Hire! Phone: 09 215 7548

The Santa Parade & Party preparations are under way and registrations have opened for this fantastic day coming up at the end of November. This event is all about the community and we’ll have the usual line up of local performers plus some old favourites keeping everyone happy.

If you’ve been involved before we’d love to have you back, and if this is your first time, go for it!

You’ve got nothing to lose and our families really appreciate our local event. The parade will begin as usual at 11.30am, with entertainment and a mini fair to follow from 12pm to 2pm.

Major exhibitors include banks, power companies, IT support, telecommunications and insurance companies, plus all manner of business support, technology and service suppliers. Microsoft, NEC, Air New Zealand, HP, Canon New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Dell Computers and Telecom New Zealand to name a few, are all offering product and service demonstrations and special show deals.

YMCA Spring Fun Holiday Programme - pay as little as $3 a day Are your kids bored this School Holidays? Why not send them along to the YMCA. Right in the heart of Onehunga, the YMCA is a community-based organisation that provides quality OSCAR programmes catering from 5yrs to early teens. The October Holidays sees a variety of Trip days (Snow Planet, Big Ups, Megazone, Kiwi Valley, and much more) as well as an awesome array of in house projects to keep everyone entertained. Using the four values of Caring, Respect, Honesty and Responsibility, as well as an emphasis on low staff to child ratios, the YMCA creates a unique opportunity for your child to develop, build self esteem, learn life skills and have FUN!! As a CYF accredited programme, we not only offer a safe, caring environment, but we are able to offer WINZ subsidies. http://bookings.nzymca.com/kids/holidayprogrammeStripped.php?holiday_branch_id=16 or ph 636 8825

Sign up for our CEO Breakfast with John Key online NOW!

Onehunga War Memorial Pool at Jellicoe Park offers another action packed programme with exciting day trips and activities for kids.

Check it out at www.clmnz.co.nz/onehunga ph 0508 6634 8642

For example, most consumers don’t see that a 50% increase in quantity is the same as a 33% discount in price. They overwhelmingly assume the former is better value. In an experiment, the researchers sold 73% more hand lotion when it was offered in a bonus pack than when it carried an equivalent discount (even after all other effects, such as a desire to stockpile, were controlled for).

In another experiment, the researchers offered undergraduates two deals on loose coffee beans: 33% extra free or 33% off the price. The discount is by far the better proposition, but the supposedly clever students viewed them as equivalent.

Marketing blogger, Peep Laja, has collected results from a number of interesting pricing experiments here: http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learnfrom. As he says, people are weird and irrational, and there’s much we don’t understand. Like why do shoppers moving in a counterclockwise direction spend on average $2.00 more at the supermarket? Why does removing dollar signs from prices (24 instead of $24) increase sales? What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer but some of these results might work for you, so why not give it a try?

A full set of AGM materials, including the 2011/12 Financials, are available at: www.onehunga.net.nz/oba -about/oba-meetings

Have you sent your listing for the next Onehunga Guide?

Onehunga Business Association launches Business Plan

As a member, you get a FREE listing in the Guide - Deadline October 1

Two-year plan for Association’s activities

The deadline for putting your business in the 2013 Onehunga Guide has been extended to October 1 to allow all interested businesses to confirm a listing or ad in this brilliant local resource. Please don’t delay - get your form back to us TODAY!! OBA members get a FREE listing BUT we still need confirmation of your address and contact details! Application forms have been distributed widely including in the August Onehunga Community News. If you’ve lost yours please download another at www.onehunga.net.nz/featured/2013-onehunga-guide.

The Onehunga Business Association (OBA), representing 450 local businesses, held its 2012 Annual General Meeting last Tuesday, 25th September at The Landing Restaurant & Bar on Onehunga Harbour Road.

In her report, OBA Manager, Amanda Kinzett, told members about the Association’s achievements and progress over the past year and introduced the OBA’s new Business Plan, which sets the Association’s direction and focus for the next two years. The Business Plan is currently being printed and will be delivered to members shortly. It will also be available online.

17,000 copies of the 2013 Onehunga Guide will be published in January and distributed to all local businesses and residents. In addition the Onehunga Guide is included as an online publication on www.onehunga.net.nz where it’s very well used (+3,900 views in 7 months!).

Members voted to accept two special resolutions to adopt the Auckland Region Business Improvement District (BID) Policy (2011) Partnering Agreement and the amended Onehunga Business Association Constitution dated 26 September 2012 replacing the existing constitution.

1. Business Listings = Business name + address + phone number. Listings are FREE for OBA members. f you’re not an OBA member, a listing costs only $60 +GST. A listing in the Guide also gets your business a listing on www.onehunga.net.nz.

New OBA Committee

The OBA Committee President, Peter Gibson thanked members of the last year’s committee, including Denise Jukes (now former owner of Jukes Espresso), Chantelle East (Urban Clothing) and Teresa Jacques (Westpac) who have left the committee; and welcomed new committee members Elizabeth Bedford (Changes), Gaylene Powell (Dress Smart), Louise Bain (NutritionZone) and Rob Gallagher (Westpac). They join members who continue on the committee: Debbie Leaver (The Library Café & Function Venue), Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy), and Bridget Graham, representing Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board. Members are invited to discuss issues with the committee. Their contact numbers are on page 4 of this newsletter.

2. Display Ads. Various sized display ads are available. Contact Sheryn Werner on 021 975 002 or see www.onehunga.net.nz/featured/2013-onehunga-guide for details.

Make your bills smaller & your business bigger

Learn how at mybiz Expo October 14 – 16 at ASB Showgrounds, Auckland The first mybiz expo takes place in a few weeks time, bringing together hundreds of exhibitors, high-calibre speakers and promotions aimed to give New Zealand’s more than 500,000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) a business advantage.

Billed as an opportunity to ‘make your bills smaller and your business bigger”, mybiz expo is designed to provide often time-poor SME businesses with access to the best available products, services and prices in order to boost their profits.

Onehunga’s 3rd Annual Santa Parade & Party Saturday 24th November, 11.30am to 2.00pm www.mybizexpo.co.nz.

Seminars confirmed for the mybiz expo include speakers from major companies Microsoft, Google, TVNZ, TradeMe, BNZ, isite Media and Natural Step NZ. Renowned financial commentator Bernard Hickey and SME Business Network founder Tenby Powell are also expected to draw crowds with their seminars.

If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor please contact Briar Millar on 636 8535 or email events@onehunga.net.nz. To register your interest to take part on foot or on a float, please fill out our registration form (attached with this newsletter or find one online at www.onehunga.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-Onehunga-Santa-Parade-RegistrationForm.pdf )

Full seminar and exhibitor information, as well as registration information can be found on the mybiz expo website: www.mybizexpo.co.nz. Entry to the Expo is FREE if you pre-register.

Onsite registration for tickets will be $20 at the gate.

Bargain hunting: offer something extra for FREE Consumers see this as better than a discount

School Holidays start next week!

Discounts may not be the best option when marketing a product; offering something extra free may work much better. A new study, led by Akshay Rao of University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, on consumers' attitudes to discounting revealed that most people are useless at fractions and so they much prefer getting something extra for free to getting something cheaper.

School Holiday programmes to keep your kids busy and entertained

New to Onehunga - Planet Kidz at 281A Onehunga Mall Planet Kidz is new to Onehunga and offers affordable child care solutions for busy working parents including a $20/day Holiday Program (M-F, 9am-3pm). Also Drop in Care (M-F, 7:00am-3:00pm) $5/ hour; Before School Care (M-F,7am-8:45am) $6/session; After School Care (M-F, 3:00pm-6:00pm) $10/session; Extended Care (M-F,6:00pm-10pm) $8/hour. No reservations required except for Holiday Programme, Extended Care and Party Venue Hire! Phone: 09 215 7548

The Santa Parade & Party preparations are under way and registrations have opened for this fantastic day coming up at the end of November. This event is all about the community and we’ll have the usual line up of local performers plus some old favourites keeping everyone happy.

If you’ve been involved before we’d love to have you back, and if this is your first time, go for it!

You’ve got nothing to lose and our families really appreciate our local event. The parade will begin as usual at 11.30am, with entertainment and a mini fair to follow from 12pm to 2pm.

Major exhibitors include banks, power companies, IT support, telecommunications and insurance companies, plus all manner of business support, technology and service suppliers. Microsoft, NEC, Air New Zealand, HP, Canon New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Dell Computers and Telecom New Zealand to name a few, are all offering product and service demonstrations and special show deals.

YMCA Spring Fun Holiday Programme - pay as little as $3 a day Are your kids bored this School Holidays? Why not send them along to the YMCA. Right in the heart of Onehunga, the YMCA is a community-based organisation that provides quality OSCAR programmes catering from 5yrs to early teens. The October Holidays sees a variety of Trip days (Snow Planet, Big Ups, Megazone, Kiwi Valley, and much more) as well as an awesome array of in house projects to keep everyone entertained. Using the four values of Caring, Respect, Honesty and Responsibility, as well as an emphasis on low staff to child ratios, the YMCA creates a unique opportunity for your child to develop, build self esteem, learn life skills and have FUN!! As a CYF accredited programme, we not only offer a safe, caring environment, but we are able to offer WINZ subsidies. http://bookings.nzymca.com/kids/holidayprogrammeStripped.php?holiday_branch_id=16 or ph 636 8825

Sign up for our CEO Breakfast with John Key online NOW!

Onehunga War Memorial Pool at Jellicoe Park offers another action packed programme with exciting day trips and activities for kids.

Check it out at www.clmnz.co.nz/onehunga ph 0508 6634 8642

For example, most consumers don’t see that a 50% increase in quantity is the same as a 33% discount in price. They overwhelmingly assume the former is better value. In an experiment, the researchers sold 73% more hand lotion when it was offered in a bonus pack than when it carried an equivalent discount (even after all other effects, such as a desire to stockpile, were controlled for).

In another experiment, the researchers offered undergraduates two deals on loose coffee beans: 33% extra free or 33% off the price. The discount is by far the better proposition, but the supposedly clever students viewed them as equivalent.

Marketing blogger, Peep Laja, has collected results from a number of interesting pricing experiments here: http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can-learnfrom. As he says, people are weird and irrational, and there’s much we don’t understand. Like why do shoppers moving in a counterclockwise direction spend on average $2.00 more at the supermarket? Why does removing dollar signs from prices (24 instead of $24) increase sales? What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer but some of these results might work for you, so why not give it a try?

A full set of AGM materials, including the 2011/12 Financials, are available at: www.onehunga.net.nz/oba -about/oba-meetings

In this issue

For Security Help

Onehunga Security Update

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Mon – Fri 10.30am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 3pm

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Slug Gun suspected in window damage

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Unichem Onehunga Mainstreet Pharmacy needed to replace a large front window earlier this week after it was damaged by what is suspected to be a high velocity slug gun.

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Police reported that a young offender was apprehended with a slug gun in Onehunga this week and may have been responsible for this damage.

call Onehunga Town Centre’s ICON Security Guard

Satia Sami

Street Collectors coming into businesses

021 426 603

A few charity collectors have been in Onehunga recently going from business to business. This can be an annoying interruption, as some members have reported. If you do not wish to talk to these people, just ask them to leave your premises. Legitimate charities generally ensure that their collectors have a badge at the very least, and often a uniform. They should respond quickly and politely to your request to leave. If you have any trouble with collectors, please call Satia Sami, our Security Guard for assistance. Legitimate charities would want to hear any complaints you may have about individual collectors. Please contact the OBA on 636 8535 if you have complaints and we will pass these on for you.

Or contact the OBA office ph

636 8535

Outside business hours, on Sundays & Public Holidays please call Police Dial 111

OBA’s newsletter, website and Facebook editor, Debbie Harkness, (that’s me) leaves 212a Onehunga Mall today after 15 months in beautiful downtown Onehunga. Coming from my previous job as manager of Parnell’s business association, I’ve really loved working at the OBA with town centre manager, Amanda Kinzett, eagle-eye security guard Satia and, more recently, Briar Millar on events. Onehunga has a great heart with its busy town centre, and a great feel to it with the community’s very active organisations all working together to make Onehunga a great place to live and work in. I’ve taken a job covering communications and marketing for Parnell Trust, which runs Parnell’s community centre. After my work here, I shall be very well equipped! It’s been wonderful spending time with you in Onehunga. All the very best. Debbie

Red bins are emptied every Tuesday morning; Blue bins every 2nd Tuesday: NEXT on October 2 and October 16. Please put your bins out ready for Tuesday collection on Monday nights after close of business and remove bins off the footpath and back onto your business property first thing

Tuesday morning!

Onehunga Heritage Festival 2012 this Saturday Come to Onehunga Saturday 29th September, 11am to 2pm

Saturday is going to be a great day to be in Onehunga with loads of activities for family fun happening from 11am to 2pm along Onehunga Mall, at the Onehunga Community Centre and at our

performance area at St Peter’s Church on the corner of Church Street and Onehunga Mall.

We hope you’ve been telling your friends, relatives and, of course, customers about the day and have been handing out loads of our Heritage Festival programmes!

Our local festival is part of the wider Auckland Council-run Auckland Heritage Festival (29th September to 14th October), which has a growing following across the area and is heavily promoted in local media and through the website www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/heritagefestival.

There are still a few spaces left for the Heritage walks and Interactive Vintage Toy Demonstrations so call us quickly to book yourself or your kids in! All details in the Onehunga Heritage Festival programmes available at almost every shop in Onehunga!

Join our CEO Breakfast with John Key 7am Thursday 11 October at Mt Smart Stadium

Onehunga Business Association invites members to the first in an exciting series of CEO Breakfasts.

With the support of Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, MP for Maungakiekie, we’re off to a memorable start with Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key as our inaugural guest speaker.

Future CEO breakfasts will feature outstanding business and community leaders who will share their unique stories and strategies with you. As you know, there’s nothing like hearing firsthand from your peers about how they have handled the challenges and issues confronting their own businesses.

Cheers

Amanda, Debbie & Briar

Please note: If your business lies within the Onehunga business precinct you are automatically a member of Onehunga Business Association - paying a part of your rates to fund the OBA.

www.onehunga.net.nz www.facebook.com/onehunga

There’s live music at St Peter’s from Blast From The Past and Sisters Of Swing, a very popular Andrews Sisters tribute band, plus a fantastic pirate show from Captain Festus McBoyle and Fungal Finnegan.

Rubbish collections

This e-news is sent to you by Onehunga Business Association, because you are either a member, or you have an interest in the organisation or the area. If you do not wish to receive these communications, please let us know by phoning 636 8535.

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This year we’ve got a great programme of activities lined up including cart rides along Onehunga Mall drawn by a beautiful pair of giant (but gentle) Clydesdale horses, music, entertainment, vintage toy demonstrations, a maritime display, heritage crafts, face painting, a bouncy castle, and guided heritage walks.

Debbie Harkness leaves OBA

NEW OBA Committee (2012/13 year) Peter Gibson, President (Parkinson & Bouskill) - 636 3300 Debbie Leaver (The Library Café & Function Venue) - 636 7292 Elizabeth Bedford (Changes) - 634 1913 Gaylene Powell (Dress Smart) - 622 2400 Louise Bain (NutritionZone) - 021 967530 Rob Gallagher (Westpac) - 634 8555 Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy) - 622 2865 Bridget Graham (Deputy Chairperson, Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board) - 301 0101

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28 September, 2012

Please call us on 636 8535 if you have anything to report.

See more events at www.onehunga.net.nz/events Tell us about your event!

Saturday 29th September Onehunga Heritage Festival Sunday 30th September Daylight Savings Starts October 1—8 Evergreen Art Exhibition Monday 22nd October Labour Day Public Holiday Saturday 24th November Santa Parade & Party

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The OBA would like to hear from any other local businesses that might have had similar looking damage to any windows. Clearly we want to help Police clear up this sort of crime, where a gun is suspected, very quickly.

Onehunga Event Calendar

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Come to Onehunga for Heritage Festival on Saturday 29th You’re invited to our CEO Breakfast with John Key Get your business listed in the Onehunga Guide! mybiz Expo to help make bills smaller/biz bigger School Holidays next week - holiday programmes OBA launches two-year Business Plan Get a float together for Christmas Parade on Nov 24th Bargain hunting: offer something extra for free!

Onehunga Security Update Debbie Harkness leaves OBA Onehunga Event Calendar Rubbish collections: Don’t put bins out Monday morning!

We hope you’ll be able to join us for a delicious cooked breakfast and a chance to hear the Prime Minister speak about issues affecting businesses in New Zealand today.

Onehunga Business Association Amanda Kinzett, Manager Briar Millar, Events 212A Onehunga Mall (upstairs) P: 09 636 8535 F: 09 636 8542 E: business@onehunga.net.nz W: www.onehunga.net.nz Onehunga Onehunga1

Register from here

Date: Thursday 11th October, 2012 When: 7am sharp to 8.30am Where: East Stand Lounge, Mt. Smart Stadium, Beasley Avenue, Penrose Cost: OBA Members $30, Non-members $35. Tables of 10 $300. Payment is required in advance RSVP: Registration is essential for catering purposes and can be done in a number of easy ways: 1. Complete our online registration form here: http://is.gd/JohnKeyBreakfast.

2. Download a registration form online here http://www.onehunga.net.nz/?p=3193 3. Phone Briar Millar, OBA Events Manager on 636 8535 with your details.

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