Mount Maunganui Over Winter but Letters Should Not Exceed 200 Words, for the Middle of Winter

Pāpāmoa PosJULYt 2020 OUR COMMUNITY, OUR NEWS FREE Pāpāmoa Hills Entrance upgrade plans Story page 10 NUMBER 1 RESTAURANT IN PAPAMOA ON TRIP ADVISOR AND GOOGLE REVIEWS Welcome to Great Spice Papamoa Book your table now! Expect the best Group bookings welcome. New evening buffet on the NOW first and third BYO Monday of the month (wine only) Restaurant Guru recommended restaurant, 2019 winner of best service and best interior. Gold Card discount of 10% Great Spice Papamoa Plaza | 07 572 2377 Thank you Papamoa for your Great Spice Papamoa East | 4 Golden Sands Drive, Papamoa | 07 542 4666 or 07 542 4333 support in Levels 1-3. ORDER ONLINE at greatspice.co.nz, menulog.co.nz or ordermeal.co.nz Pāpāmoa Post NEWS & ADVERTISING Lions set up shop again on Sundays Ellen Irvine 07 220 9795 021 305 505 [email protected] www.papamoapost.co.nz /PapamoaPost CIRCULATION 11,800 copies printed DEADLINE Our news and advertising deadline is around the 18th of the month. If you’d like us to design your ad, please give us as much notice as possible so we can get it right. Local legend LAYOUT and DESIGN Inhouse Design and Print oﬃ[email protected] Leos Irza Smeenk and Eva Trlin with Pāpāmoa Lions Club President Cat Andrews. PRINTING Horton Media T RATES Contact us for our he tempting aroma of hot chips and of goods such as plants, bric-a-brac, fruit at the Lions food truck in June. “We get to competitive advertising rates. bacon sandwiches is once again and vegetables, crafts, and food. “We’d love see what’s going on in the community and We oﬀer discounts to wafting from Gordon Spratt Reserve to get a few more buskers and some more help out the Lions,” says Eva. “It’s pretty regular advertisers. on Sundays, as the Lions Market returns. quality craft,” says Cat. cool and all the people are really nice.” Pāpāmoa Lions Club president Cat Supporting the Lions at each market are Irza adds that the Leos enjoy volunteer - DELIVERY Andrews was excited to be back when the two Leos – members of the Pāpāmoa Col - ing and taking part in fundraising efforts The publication will be delivered market reopened on a beautiful blue-sky lege Leos Club, a service group which is such as the 40-Hour Famine. around the start of each month. winter’s day in June, after a long hiatus due supported by the Lions Club. To find out more about booking a stall at to the Covid pandemic. Says Cat: “One of our members goes the Lions Club Market, contact them The market is held every second and along to their meetings, and they donate through the Facebook page “Pāpāmoa Follow Papamoa Post on fourth Sunday of the month and it is the two Leos to help us at each market. We love Lions Club Market”. Stalls are $15. Facebook and Instagram club’s major fundraiser. All of the money having them because they are young and Also now back in operation is the Bay /PapamoaPost goes to helping community organisations. have a different perspective to what they Artisans Market, which is held on the last “We lost five markets, which is a huge do.” Saturday of each month at the Pāpāmoa WE WANT YOUR LETTERS! chunk, but it is what it is,” says Cat. The club works closely with the college Community Centre. The next market will We welcome letters to the editor for The market returned with about 50 and will be offering funding to its produc - be on July 24, 10am to 2pm. publication. stalls – a far cry from its peak of 100 stalls tion Be More Chill, to be produced in Octo - The Little Big Markets is operating Email [email protected] . in the middle of summer but a good effort ber. in Mount Maunganui over winter but Letters should not exceed 200 words, for the middle of winter. Leos Irza Smeenk and Eva Trlin, both will restart its Pāpāmoa market on October and may be edited, abridged, or rejected Typically, there are stalls selling a variety aged 16, were happily serving customers 17. at the Editor's discretion. From the editor’s desk Got Ga stoeryt to sIhanre? Touch! T If it’s local and it’s news, we want to know about it! We invite local clubs and organisations to get he pull of the beach is what attracted many of us to Pāpāmoa, Village in early Pāpāmoa; as well as new businesses such as Prop - in touch and contribute your stories. but we’re also fortunate to have a regional park on our back erty Brokers’ Pāpāmoa office, and a new BestStart early childhood Are you a business owner who wants to doorstep. centre now open at the Plaza. advertise in this exciting new publication? We The Pāpāmoa Hills Regional Park, affectionately known by us In this issue we continue our focus on supporting local busi - would love to hear from you. locals as ‘the Pap Hills’, offers a unique space for our leisure. It’s nesses by profiling the family behind Island Style Peanut Butter – Email now: [email protected] . great to see this space being made more user-friendly, while keep - such a cool story. ing it protected. Read more about the plans on page 10. It’s been great to see some normality returning, with our Pāpāmoa continues its post-lockdown recovery, and it’s reas - favourite Lions market back, sports (page 5) and the college shows suring to see construction resumed on new developments such as (page 13). Love this community! Have a great month. the Excelsa shopping centre in Pāpāmoa East and the Pacific Lakes Ellen Irvine 2 ) Pāpāmoa Post ) July 2020 Pāpāmoa Post Principal Phil signs off W hen Pāpāmoa Primary School ing what I really have loved to do, and I principal Phil Friar closes his office suppose that real purpose, that structure door at the end of Term 2, he’ll be in my life. “[Being a principal] is a lifestyle; saying farewell to a teaching career of 46 it’s not something that you just work at. years. That’s part of the challenge and part of the Phil has been at the helm of Pāpāmoa uniqueness of the position. Every day is dif - Primary for 13 years but he’s confident ferent.” he’s leaving the school in great shape, as a Phil will miss the diversity of the role, “community of learning that is flourishing”. but is looking forward to having more time “It’s the people in the organisation that to spend with wife Kerri, and to focus on make it. In our learning community we his own health and fitness. have encouraged leadership, and we have He has seen plenty of changes in school - a really fantastic group of people,” says Phil ing in the Pāpāmoa community over the of the team of 62 staff. past 13 years, as the population has grown “The school is about the the people in it exponentially. – the kids, our fantastic staff and our won - In 2007, Pāpāmoa Primary had a roll of derful parents and community - not one 506 children, growing to 670 in the last person, and that’s really what makes it. year before Golden Sands School was built. “You get that positivity that flows Now it’s even more than that, with around through the whole school. I always look at 690 children, with Golden Sands School us as an exceptionally large family.” also packed and two new schools being As such, Phil was reluctant to even do built in the next two years. this article, in his belief that “it’s not about Phil has no doubt that Pāpāmoa Primary Local legend me”, but he felt it was only right to say will continue to provide a vibrant learning “Thank you and see you later” to the many environment. “It’s a good school; the com - children and families he’s known over his munity, the staff, the kids, they will thrive time at Pāpāmoa Primary. because they are who they are.” Phil Friar is retiring after 13 years as Pāpāmoa Primary principal. He’s been trying not to think about his Mount Maunganui Intermediate princi - retirement, but he felt the time was right pal Lisa Morresey has been appointed forL tehigs a“oc ldy dG oga”r tdo emnosv,e P ona. pamoa as the new principal and will start in “It’s a real challenge to know that I’m los - Term 3. 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