Onehunga enews 13 september

In this issue

Come to Onehunga Business Association’s AGM OBA To Fund Shop Front Clean Up e Update on Onehunga Town Centre Rubbish e Join The Onehunga YMCA Running Club e Join This Year’s Santa Parade e The Onehunga Half Marathon e Help Bring The Cast Of Wicked to Onehunga e Enter The NZ Café Of The Year e Looking To Make Over Your Retail Space e Onehunga Security Update e Events Calendar e e

enews 17 September,2013

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Come to Onehunga Business Association’s AGM! Thursday 24 October at the Library Cafe

The Onehunga Business Association (OBA), representing 450 local businesses, will hold its 2013 Annual General Meeting at The Library Café, 55 Princes St, on Thursday 24 October at 7am. All members are welcome. Please RSVP by Thursday 17 October to business@onehunga.net.nz or phone 636 8535.

Information for Onehunga Business Association Members online Onehunga businesses are encouraged to find out more about the OBA and its activities on our website. Go to www.onehunga.net.nz/category/onehunga-business-association for comprehensive information on the OBA, services offered to members and other information to assist local businesses. We love getting your feedback, so please tell us what other information you’d like to see there.

Join the OBA Committee! Nominations accepted to Thursday October 24

If you’re passionate about improving Onehunga’s town centre and creating conditions that enable businesses in the area to prosper, we’d like you to think about joining Onehunga Business Association’s committee. We need between five and nine full members on the committee. The OBA’s Committee approves strategies and budgets and ensures that management meets agreed performance objectives as they work towards improving the area for local businesses.

Eleven meetings are held each year. Meetings run approximately 1.5 hours and are currently being held on a Thursday morning with a 7am start. Additional time may be required as various situations arise requiring action from the business association. Beyond this, energetic, wellconsidered extra input from committee members is always welcome to help Onehunga advance its strategic goals.

OBA To Fund Shop Front Clean Up

A well presented shop front is essential in this competitive market

Our customers have a wide variety of options when it comes to choosing where they will spend their money and it’s vital we do all we can to remain competitive including making a real effort to keep our shop fronts clean and tidy.

The Onehunga town centre and your business competes with Westfields Sylvia Park which offers shoppers a pristine shopping experience, shops fronts are sparkling clean and inviting. In order to lift our image and ensure shoppers choose Onehunga town centre, we have decided to take action and where appropriate, we will fund a wash down and chemical solution clean of business front windows, buildings and under verandahs — we will work with you on an individual basis.

Please speak to your landlords about this clean up we have planned and if you do not want your business cleaned, please contact us on 6368535.

Once we have a date confirmed for the clean up, we will send out a letter to you and your landlords with details.

Update on Onehunga Town Centre Rubbish OBA demanding answers from Auckland Council

After calling up Auckland Council on an almost daily basis to report the lack of litter collection and general untidiness of the town centre, an Auckland Transport representative and a contractor for Liveable Communities agreed to meet with us.

Onehunga Town Manager, Amanda Kinzett, expressed concern that there were high traffic areas in the Onehunga town centre that were no longer being cleaned or to a very poor standard and that during her eight year tenure as manager, it is the worst she has seen. She emphasized that the lack of cleaning services in certain areas has an impact on business people in the area. “Our retailers have a hard enough time competing with a Westfields - having a clean and tidy shopping area is vital for these businesses to compete.”

We presented a series of photos that we have been taking on a daily sweep of the area that highlights the cleaning service that is in place now. We have requested that we return to the former cleaning service which was carried out on a much regular basis and was of a good standard.

Both representatives have agreed to put forward our concerns to their manager’s and to get back to us before the end of the week. If we do not hear back from them this week we will be escalating this issue further.

We have just heard that the contractors who are responsible for the town centre have been on a trial for the last three months and their contract is due to finish shortly — we will be expressing our dissatisfaction with the contractors during this period.

Please let us know if you come across any areas that are looking untidy and have been neglected by the contractors.

Join The Onehunga YMCA Running Club Starts on Wednesday 2 October at 7.30am

The Onehunga YMCA is starting a running club for members. This is an initiative that they have put in place free for their members to create and enhance community, family and team. This programme is run by volunteers of the Jordan Centre - with Mason Haru volunteering his time for the running club at 7.30am Wednesday mornings from the 02nd October.

The programme will start with a 4km short course and as people progress it can get longer or people can stay doing the same distance. The idea is for everyone to start the run together and for those who are a little fitter or would like a longer run, they will complete a stage to then go back and run with the people at the back of the pack to all finish together.

Onehunga Businesses ! Join This Year’s Santa Parade Decorate a float and take part on Saturday 30 November, 11.30am to 2.00pm

We’d love to have more Onehunga businesses register for this year’s Santa Parade! If you want to talk to us about what’s involved, give us a call on 636 8535.

What have you got to lose — having a float is superb exposure for your business, designing your float is a great team building exercise and on the day you have so much fun. To see the smiles on the kids’ faces as you pass them by is priceless.

This is also a good opportunity to partner with a local community group to put together a combined float. Perfect way to show you support the local community.

To register your interest to take part on foot or on a float, download the registration form here:

http://www.onehunga.net.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-Registration-Form.pdf This year we will award a prize to the best float on the day and we are also contemplating a prize for best business float.

If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor for the event, please contact us on 636 8535.

The Onehunga Half Marathon—Sunday 29 September Choose from four course distances —7km, 10km, 16km & 21km

The Onehunga Half Marathon is coming up on Sunday 29 September. With a flat course around the foreshores of the Manukau Harbour, this is certainly a fast option close to Auckland City. It's paved the whole way (but you can run on the grass if you like).

September 29th is exactly five weeks before the Auckland Marathon, and the perfect time for competitors to have a 'hit out' on the way to their longer event.

Starting and finishing at the Onehunga Bay Reserve, makes for an enjoyable day. There will be a rolling prize giving offering both merit and spot prizes as you cross the finish line.

More information be found at www.onehungahalf.co.nz

Help Bring The Cast Of ‘Wicked’ To Onehunga Vote for Onehunga Library to have a special visit

Do you want to meet one of the cast members from the musical WICKED? Vote for Onehunga Library to have a visit during the school holidays! Vote online here or at the library! http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/Events/Events/Pages/locallibrarywicked.aspx

Enter The NZ Café of The Year

Register at www.nzcafeoftheyear.co.nz by 18 October Sponsored by Wattie’s and Meadow Fresh, cafés can now register online to enter the NZ Café of the Year. Each café entering the award must have at least one dish on its menu containing Wattie’s canned fruit and vegetable products and Goodman Fielder’s Meadow Fresh or Tararua products.

Voting opens on 2 September.

Café-goers can then find out about their favourite cafés and vote online by Smartphone and texting.

Eighteen finalists will be chosen on the basis of the most votes gained.

The judges will visit the finalist cafés and score them on apppearance, atmosphere, staff, meals and the overall dining experience. The winning café will be announced at the beginning of December and its owners will drive home in a brand new Fiat 500S. To enter, cafés must register at www.nzcafeoftheyear.co.nz by 18 October.

Café-goers who wish to participate can also go in the draw to win a regional prize of $1,000 to spend in the café of their choice. There is also a grand prize of $5,000 for one lucky voter to spend at his or her favourite café.

Looking to make over your retail space?

Save money with second-hand shop fittings and shelving

Surplus Traders, the Avondale-based business is the country’s largest dealer in second-hand shop fittings and shelving. Most of the stock comes from businesses upsizing, downsizing, merging or upgrading but they also import a selected range of new shop fittings and shelving.

See what’s on offer at: www.surplustraders.co.nz

Winter Promotion Prize Draw

Due to the huge response of this promotion and a hick up with our number machine, we are still numbering each entry. This should be completed this week. We will announce the draw on our Facebook Page.

Onehunga Security Update

For Security Help

Keep Your Shop Front Lit Up For security reasons we advise all businesses to turn on their verandah light outside their businesses and also their display window lights when they leave for the day.

Shoplifting Family Caught On Camera Watch out for this family — they targeted the Mangere Bridge $2/variety shop recently.

Call Onehunga Town Centre’s Security Guard

Satia Sami

02 0401 13040 Or contact the OBA office ph

636 8535

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

REMEMBER: Report all suspicious activity to the Police. The more Police reports made, the more Police are assigned to Onehunga. If we do not report criminal activity to the Police, Onehunga becomes a low Police priority.

Onehunga Event Calendar

See more events at www.onehunga.net.nz/events If you’ve got an event coming up, email us at admin@onehunga.net.nz. We’d love to hear about it 18 September— Onehunga Primary School Annual Reunion, Onehunga Community House 28 September—Heritage Day at Onehunga Community House 30 November—Onehunga Santa Parade & Party

Rubbish Collections Red bins are emptied every Tuesday morning. Blue bins every 2nd Tuesday: NEXT on September 17 & October 1.

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. We have spoken to Auckland Council regarding the late collection times recently. Hopefully we will be back to early morning next week.

Cheers Amanda, Anne and Satia 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 Rob Gallagher (Westpac) - 634 8555 Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy) - 622 2865 Bridget Graham (Deputy Chairperson, Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board) - 301 0101 Dana Jin (Rainbow D) - 6349068 Ross Reddy (Daniel Overton & Goulding) - 6222222 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.

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.

Onehunga Business Association Amanda Kinzett, Manager Anne Dunlop, Communications Satia Sami, Security 149 Onehunga Mall P: 09 636 8535 F: 09 636 8542 E: business@onehunga.net.nz

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