- By KATIE TRENEMAN, Interim Village Manager, Howick Village Association
We’d like to congratulate Julie and Emma from Brave and Be and welcome their new store, Lemonade, at 51 Picton Street, Howick.
This expands their offering of beautiful women’s fashion, and the new store looks amazing!
Lemonade is situated in what was the Mardell site.
Spicy House has opened a new branch at 4/87 Picton Street, behind Jetts on the Central Terrace car park.
They specialise in Chinese food, dine in and takeaway, opening for lunch and dinner. They’re closed on Tuesdays.
Our annual StarInsure Howick HOP is now behind us – what an amazing day!
We had 240 vehicles in town, amazing entertainment, and more than 70 market stalls, and thousands of people enjoying the day.
Planning has started for next year already. We’re accepting registrations for 2025!
It has become an iconic event for us, getting bigger and better each year.
We’re very appreciative of the support we receive for this event. Howick Coastguard does a fantastic job marshalling the vehicles every year.
As always, Mike and the team at East FM bring their caravan onto the street, entertain the crowds and look after any lost children.
We couldn’t run the event without our generous sponsors: StarInsure, Matassa Property Services, MTF Howick Pakuranga, Stewart Surveying, KGM, Mothers Polishes, Howick Village Optometrists, and Howick Local Board.
We recently had our AGM and welcome some new faces onto our committee for 2024/25.
The HVA committee is Gerald Patterson (landlord), Leane Steele (Unichem and Life Pharmacies), Tony Moores (Poppies), Paul Spiller (landlord), Barry O’Shaughnessy (The Prospect/Good Home), Frith Jenkins (Howick Village Optometrists), Nick Thompson (John Russell Schoolwear), Carmen Holmes (Apothecary/Daisy Chang/Despensa/Piggy Bar), Paul Brobbel (Uxbridge Arts and Culture), Sam Dalzell (Resonate Howick), and Ziahad Mohammed (Paper Plus).
Our annual Christmas Fair in on Friday, November 15, 5.30-9.30pm. 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 Howick Village Market will be running.
Our village shops will be open with many great specials, a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping.
Our restaurants will be busy, so it may pay to make a booking.
The Howick Santa Parade is run by the Howick Children’s Charitable Trust and is looking for volunteers to help on Sunday, December 8.
We encourage anyone who can to please get involved: www.howicksantaparade.co.nz.
