March 2021 Issue 127 Mairangi retail Bay revive • relax • NOW 10,000 COPIES TO LOCALS! font: Anada black font: Anada black Proudly supported by the Mairangi Bay Business Association and Hibiscus and Bays Local Board MAIRANGI BAY font:font: Anada Anada black black font: Anada black font: Anadafont: black Anada black Sundays Live music from New Dates Tim Prier and March 7, 14, 21, 28 Chris from Albie and 4:00pm – 6:00pm the Wolves. Kids entertainment, face painting, and sausage sizzle! Mairangi Bay BYO picnic or grab a takeaway from the many Beach and eateries in Mairangi Bay Surf Club www.mairangibayvillage.co.nz Mairangi Bay Proud to support Village relax • revive • retail ssociation www.mairangibayvillage.co.nz The official magazine of the Mairangi Bay Business A Message from the Business Association To submit a news item please contact: Community News: commencing Sunday, 7th March, from Terry Holt • Phone: 021 042 8232 4:00pm to 6:00pm, and then on Sunday Email: [email protected] 14, 21 and 28 March. Further details can Village News Magazine be found on the Mairangi Bay Face book Editorial & Advertising enquiries: Terry Holt • Phone: 021 042 8232 page, website and later in this issue. Email: [email protected] There will be live music, kids Paul Hailes • Phone: 021 217 3628 entertainment ,face painting and a Email: [email protected] sausage sizzle. Bring a picnic or grab Gary Covich • Design and Production a takeaway from the many eateries in Jane Warwick • Contributing writer Here we are already into our second Mairangi Bay and have some fun at Additional photos by Unsplash.com issue for the year and just when we the beach. These community events Mairangi Bay Business thought we were on a good roll with are proudly supported by the Business Association Coordinator: COVID disruptions –another glitch that Association and the Hibiscus and Joanne Martin • has further tested the fortitude of all our Bays local Board. Email: [email protected] business owner’s here in the Village. I am We are again excited to be Mairangi Bay Village Website: Terry Holt • in awe of how resilient all of our business able to bring our magazine Email: [email protected] are by simply getting on with doing their to more readers. This will be Mairangi Bay Business very best at a time when “curved balls the 2nd edition with 10000 Association Chair: “ are a daily event. Top marks to those copies and also can be read Chris Harrop • Phone: 021 464 548 who had to make changes to ensure online if you missed picking up continued service. a copy .If you wish to get your Cover photo: Charlotte Handley and Greta Hutton. Once again on behalf of all the copy online contact editor@ Photo by Bao Dingqiang, club photographer businesses, we all send our sincere mairangivillage.co.nz thanks to you –the very people who make We urge everyone to maintain a difference by continuing to shop and their vigilance with the COVID Coming Events supporting local where you can-your requirements and keep scanning Americas Cup 6-15 March support is much appreciated. the QR code to help keep us all safe too. Summer soundwaves With the recent short-term level 7, 14, 21 and 28 March changes, our four “Summer Sound Chris Harrop Moments of Mairangi Bay Waves” beach events have had to Chair until 31 March be pushed forward with new dates For the Mairangi Bay Business Association Easter 2-5 April OUR SERVICES • Property - Sale / Purchase / Refinance • Wills & Family Trusts • Separation & Relationship Property • Deceased Estates • Enduring Powers of Attorney WE ALSO OFFER • Online Self-Help Legal Services • Free Certification of Documentation Lizette Heathcote LLB. B.Com (Hons) Barrister & Solicitor 17 Corinthian Drive, Building D, Level 1, Albany, Auckland, 0632 PO Box 65348, Mairangi Bay, North Shore City 0754 Phone: 09 475 5916 Mobile: 021 648 978 Email: [email protected] www.heathcotelegal.co.nz Take a moment in Mairangi Bay COURTESY OF ROTARY brownsbayrotary.co.nz Q1. What is the world’s northern most city? Q2. What is the hard tag at the end of a shoelace called? Q3. What substance is fermented to make alcohol? Q4. Which South African It’s that time again! Time to enter passing parade of villagers. cricketer was banned for life in 2000 for match the annual Moments of Mairangi If your friends are envious of your Mairangi Bay workspace, you might let fixing? Bay photo competition to find them know they can rent some space of Q5. How many ‘pips’ are there the best image to describe how their own upstairs on the corner of Beach on the Greenwich Time great the village and surrounds and Hastings Roads. Excellent spot and, Signal (National RNZ on the hour)? are. You could start your quest to of course, we all know why…beach, great shops, great cafes and eateries…how any Q6. What is the largest island find the perfect entry during the of us get any actual work done with all in the Mediterranean Summer Sound Wave, now on these distractions is a mystery! Sea? the new dates of the 7th, 14th, One thing that Mairangi Bay doesn’t Q7. 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It was, to begin with, at the Don’t forget Easter – 2-5 April – and OUR SERVICES back of the store but now you can check out the directory for events and Answers on page 23 enjoy both the company of cats and the Church services. • Property - Sale / Purchase / Refinance • Wills & Family Trusts • Separation & Relationship Property • Deceased Estates • Enduring Powers of Attorney WE ALSO OFFER • Online Self-Help Legal Services Excellence in Physiotherapy care in • Free Certification of Documentation Mairangi Bay for over 20 years. Skilled, "hands-on" management of musculo-skeletal injuries Lizette Heathcote LLB. B.Com (Hons) Barrister & Solicitor Monday - Friday 7:30am - 7.30pm Ph 478 3098 www.physiotherapycare.co.nz 17 Corinthian Drive, Building D, Level 1, Albany, Auckland, 0632 PO Box 65348, Mairangi Bay, North Shore City 0754 404 Beach Road Phone: 09 475 5916 Mobile: 021 648 978 Mairangi Bay, Auckland Email: [email protected] www.heathcotelegal.co.nz Mairangi Bay Village News 3 restoration of native biodiversity in their area. In 2021, there is a total of $40,000 available for pest plant control that is too difficult for volunteers to tackle on their own and that will require professional eco-contractors FUNDING to undertake the initial control. There is also a $10,000 fund that can be AVAILABLE allocated to other kinds of restoration projects, such as native planting. FOR YOUR Local schools are encouraged to apply for the VIP funding to help them CONSERVATION to become pest-free schools. If you are connected to a local school in some way, PROJECT please think about how you might be able to use this funding. If required, the Restore Hibiscus & Bays team can support all funded projects with technical advice, pest control plans and coordination of eco- contractors. The deadline for applications is Monday 19 April and the form can be found online at: restorehb.org.nz/resources-funding. Students controlling pest plants in school bush The Restore Hibiscus & Bays projects that would be difficult Volunteer Initiatives Programme (VIP) to find funding for elsewhere, provides funding to individuals, groups, for example because they are neighbourhoods and schools wanting on school land or private land to carry out short-term projects to along streams. Mairangi Bay cubs learning to tackle eradicate pests, restore native habitats Communities can apply for ivy that is strangling a native tree and improve water quality across public funding up to around $3,000 and private land in the Hibiscus & Bays for a project that they have identified restorehb.org.nz Local Board area. This is specifically for as important to the conservation and [email protected] www.mairangiswimschool.co.nz All Mains $12.99 Sun, Mon, Tue (excluding Cinnamon special, Indo-Chinese & seafood) G Open Wed – Sun 11.30am – 2pm, re at Mon – Sun 5 – 10pm. S 470 Beach Road, Murray’s Bay wi mme es 09 281 0146 rs, Fun Tim [email protected] JOIN OUR WORLD CLASS PROGRAMME www.thecinnamonclub.co.nz 6d Ascension Pl, Mairangi Bay • 478-6153 www.facebook.com/thecinnamon/ [email protected] • 4 Mairangi Bay Village News JULIA PARFITT & ALEXIS POPPELBAUM Personal viewpoints of two of your Hibiscus & Bays Local Board Members Where should we plant trees? Advocating for a recycling centre on We want your suggestions on some the North Shore good locations for planting trees in We’ve been working with public spaces. The Hibiscus and Bays neighbouring Local Boards like Upper Local Board will be planting at least 120 Harbour and advocating for a central trees each year to improve the overall North Shore community recycling tree canopy cover we have and to centre (CRC).