Malcolm Property Maintenance
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ISSUE 58 August 2017 FRESH FACES AT THE FOUR SQUARE by Ciaran Thompson The new owners of the Wakefield Four Square are Phil and Ruth Bell. They have come to us from Dunedin with their twin boys, Lucas and Dylan. Phil, a butcher by trade (which he has done for 23 years) had been Butchery Operations Advisor of South Island Foodstuffs. More recently he spent four years managing the Fresh Foods Department at New World in Mosgiel. Ruth, who is originally from Richmond, has always worked in the garment, clothing and soft furnishings industry and most recently worked with an interior design company in Dunedin. She does a lot of sewing and also loves sudoku puzzles. Phil has always been the outdoors type and loves hunting, fishing and diving with Lucas and Dylan, so they all should fit right into Wakefield. Phil loves retail and Ruth said that buying the Four Square was “the next step really”. It has been a steep learning curve and they have just had their one month trading anniversary. They consider that they have “an excellent team” as they learn the ways of owning a local grocery store. Ruth has been focusing on how to work Lotto, the post shop and the accounts while Phil has been learning about the fresh foods, grocery and ordering side of things. Ruth has said that “the locals introduce themselves and it’s just delightful to have that community to be involved in”. They are still going backwards and forwards between the Four Square and Richmond as they haven’t found a house to rent in Wakefield yet. Ruth says that a house is definitely a priority at the moment, as all their belongings are still stored in a container. Phil is keen to get his dogs back up from Dunedin and get back hunting with his boys. Ruth says that once they move here the boys will be able to bike to school, to the shop and to their mates and that it will improve their routine which is just a bit stretched at the moment. Ruth thinks that Wakefield is “a great set up” with the domain and Faulkner Bush. One of the best things about their move from Dunedin has been the improvement in the weather! As for plans for the future of Wakefield Four Square, Phil is keen on the idea of expanding the amount and variety of fresh foods that come in to the Four Square and providing more variety of products in general. Ruth says “keeping it relevant to what people want” and “making sure we provide a really good service to customers is most important”. She says that the Four Square is noted for its excellent customer service and she and Phil are determined to retain that standard. They feel lucky to have a very friendly young staff to work with. I’m sure people will join me in welcoming them to the Wakefield community and wishing them well for the future. H E D G E S N E E D T R I M M I N G ? C A L L M E ! malcolm property maintenance LAWN MOWING PAINTING - INT + EXT + GIB STOPPING Richard Malcolm GARDENING SERVICES PRE SALE HOUSE CLEAN cell 021 02 545 565 a/h 03 547 9155 HEDGE TRIMMING RENTAL PROPERTY CLEANING email [email protected] WINDOW CLEANING NEW FENCE & HOUSE REPAIRS KITCHEN JOINER FURNITURE REPAIRS WINDOW ON WAKEFIELD How it works… Window on Wakefield is produced and published by Focus Wakefield, a subcommittee of the Wakefield Community Council. All businesses advertising in this publication incur a cost for the advertising space allocated, depending on the size and location of the advertisement. The funds raised from this advertising are used to cover the costs of printing Window on Wakefield. No parties are paid for the time involved with editing, coordinating and publishing this paper. It is the intention that if surplus funds are raised from advertising, that these will be held in a separate bank account to be used for other community projects. The bank reconciliations and financial reports related to this account will be made available to any person who wishes to view them. Content… Jill O’Brien Window on Wakefield is a community newspaper, and as such, we look forward to having articles and content contributed by our community. If you wish to submit a one off article, R D 1 Wakefield or suggest some regular content, please make contact with Sonia on 541 9005 or email Rural Mail Contractor [email protected] and read the Terms and Conditions below. FOR ALL YOUR We try to ensure information published is truthful and accurate, but do not check the facts of the articles and therefore cannot attest to their validity. While all reasonable care is MAIL NEEDS exercised, we do not accept liability for any loss whatsoever incurred through our errors, acts or omissions in relation to the content of an article, or for any consequences of readers’ Stamps, Parcels, Freight relying on the information published. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily represent the views of the Focus Wakefield group, nor are they necessarily endorsed by the Phone 541 8963 Editor or Publisher. Mobile 027 324 2126 Advertising… If you wish to advertise in Window on Wakefield, please make contact with Genie or Lindsay on 541 9641 or email [email protected] and read the Terms and Conditions that will be provided on the rate card. Did Your Business Miss Out This Time TERMS AND CONDITIONS REGARDING PUBLISHING OF CONTENT a. All articles and other content submitted for publishing must disclose the author’s name or where the article/content is contributed by a community group, then that community group’s name. b. All images should be provided to us in a high quality PDF format. We take no responsibility for the quality of reproduction for images that are not supplied to us in this format. c. If you wish to make changes to an article or content already submitted, please ensure these are communicated to us before the relevant deadline date. d. When you submit an article or other content for publishing you: ● agree that the submitted material and/or images can be reproduced by the Editor or Publisher at any time without your prior approval ● agree that all photographs submitted for publishing are provided free of charge, and Don’t Despair! the approval to print has been obtained from any persons shown in the photo - this is the responsibility of the person submitting the photo We have saved ● acknowledge that all material is held by us at your risk and is not insured by us. a spot for the next Material will only be returned on request and may otherwise be destroyed by us publication ● warrant and undertake that no statement, image, representation or information Just for your business contained in your supplied article or content: * is or is likely to be misleading or deceptive; * is at all defamatory, in breach of copyright, trademark or other intellectual or Give us a call industrial property right; 541 9641 * is otherwise in breach of the Copyright Act 1994, Defamation Act 1992, or any or provision of any Statute, Regulation or rule of law. Email [email protected] e. We reserve the right to decline the publication of any article or any content whatsoever on any grounds that we in our absolute discretion see fit. NEXT EDITION Due out the first full week of each month All Advertising to be submitted by the 20th of the Month prior All Content to be submitted by the 23rd of the Month prior For Advertising please contact Wakefield Print Ltd 541 9641 For Content please contact All Accounts Matter Ltd 541 9005 Window On Wakefield Issue 58 August 2017 Page2 In The Bush Saturday 8th July gave us fantastic weather to finish off our planting for the year. Great turnout again and a big thank you to all those volunteers and our lunch providers for another fantastic spread and especially to Uta who just appeared with a gift of cupcakes. This social aspect and catching up with old friends is relaxing indeed, why not come and join us? You just need to make a commitment to the second Saturday of each month from 10am until noon – give Evie a call 541 8980, mobile 027 907 2879 or email [email protected] and go on our telephone tree. On the down side we received a phone call that Saturday as Tracey on her morning walk had heard a chainsaw in the bush enclosure at Edward Baigent. I got down there ten minutes after the call to find a gentleman in a house bus “assuming” that he could cut wood from the bush to keep his internal fire going. He was told that it was a Scenic Reserve and this was definitely not to happen here. Fortunately also Richard Hilton of the Tasman District Council on arrival at our planting was informed and went immediately to speak with this person, to further reinforce my visit to him. Consequently he did move on, but on checking back later in the afternoon I found a heap of extra wood “hidden” from view. A BIG THANK YOU to Tracey and Don for getting to us so quickly. Had they not, then much further damage could have taken place. As always lots of extra maintenance is happening at this time of year and again sincere thanks must be expressed to those who work very long volunteer hours outside of our usual working bees.