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- By Katie Treneman, Village Manager, Howick Village Association
What a stunning day March 1 turned on for us for our third annual Cultural Food Festival.
Congratulations to Tyler from Urban In East for winning The Great Goblet Race again this year.
It was great seeing Howick Local Board chair Damian Light and member Adele White and Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown in town all enjoying the event.
We’re grateful to the Ministry of Ethnic Development and the Howick Local Board for their continued funding support of this event.
For those of you who enjoyed sitting watching the entertainment, whilst being shaded under our new event gazebos, these were provided by the Rotary Club of Howick.
In other news, Life Pharmacy and Unichem Mainstreet Pharmacy are merging.
Life Pharmacy Howick Village will be closing its doors for the last time on Saturday, March 15, with their entire prescription database transferred to Unichem Mainstreet Howick, 45-47 Picton Street, from Monday, March 17.
Leane, Kelly and Nicole will join the friendly staff at Unichem Mainstreet Howick and look forward to providing you with their continued level of exceptional care and advice.
Unichem Mainstreet trades seven days per week.
A reminder, the Howick War Memorial Building is now a venue for hire through the Auckland Council website.
You can make a booking at very reasonable rates online via the council website, www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.
We’ve been very fortunate to have secured KGM cars as a market sponsor.
KGM (formerly Ssangyong) who were sponsors at the Howick HOP, supports our talented market buskers, whom many of you enjoy listening to each week.
We value our collaboration with KGM, whose brand promotes socialising and sustainability, a great mix for our market.
Vegan online store NZ will soon be opening their first vegan physical store in Rices Mall.
The Organics store has merged with the Natural Health Co into The Terraces in Wellington Street.
Howick Village Vets is now open at 14 Moore Street, Howick. It’s sad to see APT Collections has closed.
And if you’ve not already caught up on the news, our heartfelt congratulations to Jake from Louis & Max and also Amrutha from Resonate who have both recently become parents.
We’ve been advised the roadworks taking place adjacent to Stockade Hill at the top end of Picton Street will be complete the third week of March.
The work aims to make it safer for pedestrians to cross at the intersection of Picton Street and Ridge Road.
They’re widening the footpaths, installing new pavers, and making the kerb bigger.
