- By Katie Treneman, Village Manager, Howick Village Association
Our annual Christmas Fair is on Friday, November 15, from 5.30pm to 9.30pm.
Picton Street will be closed from late afternoon. We have an awesome line-up of entertainment, many community groups will be in town, and our market will be running.
Shops will be open all day with many great specials and it will be a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping.
Our restaurants will be busy so it may pay to make a booking.
Uxbridge Arts and Culture will be playing the children’s movie Home Alone at 6.30pm.
Tickets are $5 (including popcorn) so book online at www.uxbridge.org.nz.
Our hospitality businesses are getting booked up for end of year functions.
There aren’t many slots left for Christmas get-togethers. Don’t be disappointed and book your party in now.
We’re excited to welcome to our markets Good Chow with amazing homemade sauces, and The Little Patisserie with melt-in-your-mouth, single-serve, fresh fruit mousse.
We’ve also welcomed back for the summer season Pots of Joy with their seedlings, and 100 Wood Olive Oil.
On November 23 the Howick Art Group will be sharing the War Memorial Building with our stallholders and holding their ‘Have A Go’ event whilst our markets are running.
There’s been a couple of celebrations in the Village. Recently McInnes & Co celebrated 10 years in business – it’s a real milestone.
Marbled won the Flavours of the World Category Champion category in the renowned Dunningham’s Great NZ Sausage Competition, with their Boerewors. Congratulations Marbled!
Disappointingly, scammers have been active on our social media platforms again.
Earlier in the year we had Mother’s Day and Father’s Day giveaways targeted.
At the moment they’re trying to engage with potential stallholders enticing them to interact via messenger and pay for non-existent event stalls with Paypal.
We don’t do event or market bookings via social media, nor would we ever message you via personal profiles requiring payment using Paypal.
Please be vigilant. The best way to make contact with us is via email and all our event and market management is done via events@howickvillage.co.nz and markets@howickvillage.co.nz.
