FUTURE GENERATION WESTERN SPRINGS COLLEGE GET ON YOUR BIKES PONSONBY ANNUAL QUIZ NIGHT BRAINS BUSTER Friday 29 August What has become a very popular social event is on again - the annual Western Springs College quiz night. Join parents and students of the college for a fabulous night out, and a chance to put your heads together and win great prizes. Apart from the quiz, there are raffles, an auction, and a superb antipasto platter of delicious food, all for $42 per ticket. Drinks and refreshments are available at the cash bar. You can also buy a table’s worth of tickets at a discount if you book online, or you can sponsor a table and provide prizes and auction items. This is the school’s main fund-raiser, organised by the parents’ action group to contribute towards the school’s academic, sports and arts facilities. With Western Springs College due to be rebuilt, the quiz night provides a great opportunity to show your support. And it has become a must-do social event. There’s a lot of friendly rivalry between tables, a challenging list of questions, and a wonderful atmosphere. Tickets on sale now at fabquiz.eventbrite.com and for latest updates like them at: facebook.com/fabquiz. And if you are a business, you can sponsor a table or provide prizes! For all enquiries please call Jody on M: 027 677 3429, or Stephen on T: 360 0757, or PN E: Stephen.knight.lenihan@gmail.com. F
Ponsonby local bike shop CYCO turned 21 this year and Ponsonby resident and owner, Chris Auld, wonders what the next 21 years will hold. The Ponsonby Draft plan has been much discussed and it would seem that improved facilities and environment for cycling are key planks of the plan. This is extremely encouraging for Ponsonby as a community. Someone riding to meet for a coffee, pick up the paper, grab a couple of ingredients for dinner and head home is much more likely to stop and talk to friends and browse in shops along the way, than someone driving. They become part of the colourful fabric of Ponsonby rather than a faceless component of traffic passing through it. A natural progression will be the improvement in cycling infrastructure provided by businesses and schools. Parents would be more inclined to allow children to ride to school if the school provided secure covered bike storage. Employees may contemplate an electric bike for commuting if there was somewhere provided to store it. CYCO has always enjoyed great support from the local residents, stocking a hand picked range of kids bikes, urban bikes, roads bikes, mountain bikes and, increasingly, electric bikes. This translates into a great riding experience because CYCO are experts in putting you on the most suitable bike for your purpose. With CYCO’s sale now in progress, it is a great opportunity to get a market leading brand at a budget brand price. That doesn’t happen every day. CYCO are now open seven days a week and have an online store meaning access to their PN products all day, every day. F CYCO, 228 Ponsonby Road, T: 09 376 4447 www.cyco.co.nz
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