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Murray Hill
Vive La France! Vive La Milford – Saturday February 27th!
Hello to all our Milford customers. Wow! Wasn’t it great to get away for a break from life as it had been in 2020 and enjoy the Christmas/New Year with family and friends?
Milford businesses are back to full steam after having varied breaks and are looking forward to serving you as you ‘shop local’ this year. We have a number of new businesses that will open in the first quarter of 2021. Keep an eye out on our Facebook page ‘milfordshops’ for details when they announce their opening.
Our next major event is the wonderful Vive La France, which we hold on Saturday 27th February from 10am to 3pm. We will have the main street closed for that period, as we have done for the past few events, and have a line-up of entertainment on stage thrughout the event.
Our normal array of entertainment includes JP the clown/ magician with his infamous ‘Snail Race’, face painters, kids' entertainment, entertainers on stage and of course, after its amazing success last year, the Pet & Vet Dog show. Entry details for this will be on our Facebook page and at Pet & Vet in Shakespeare Road.
Peugeot/Citröen North Shore will have a line of new cars on display and nearby will be a petanque court for you to have a game with friends and family. It will be great fun!
Of course there will be bargains galore from our retailers, market day stalls and great food and beverages from our hospitality businesses. Details of this event will be updated regularly on our Facebook page (milfordshops) and website www.milfordshops.co.nz
Head of the Harbour Rowing Regatta – Saturday February 13th
For those of you who have followed the secondary school rowing over the years, the Head of the Harbour Rowing Regatta is on at Lake Pupuke on Saturday 13th February. This is organised by my old high school, Takapuna Grammar, which runs a great event. Get along, see the new talent coming to the fore, then pop in to Milford for some hospitality or retail therapy. We look forward to seeing you.
Murray Hill, Manager – Milford Business Association, manager@milfordshops.co.nz | 021 950 463 www.milfordshops.co.nz
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This month in MILFORD
VILLAGE LOOKING GREAT
If you wonder why the gardens and plants around Milford Shops always look so good, we reckon we’ve found the answer. Michael Leach, known affectionately by locals as ‘Michael the Gardener” tends to all these items two days a week – and he loves it. Funding for his efforts comes from the Milford Business Association. The Channel Mag camera caught him hard at work on a Tuesday morning in late January. The accolades shouldn’t go to Michael alone though. Milford Rotary also play a fantastic job working with business association manager Murray Hill as well as other volunteers to constantly improve things in Milford. Their most recent effort was redoing the garden on corner of Fenwick Avenue. It looks fantastic, along with the freshly painted seating. We love your work team Milford!
ICE CREAM OF THE MONTH AT SCRUNCHY MILLERS
Looking for where to go for the best ice cream in February? We highly recommend the jaffa gelato at Scrunchy Millers in Milford. Our scoop had orange zest, a generous serving of chocolate chips and the cone was as fresh as they come, it was 10/10 to us. They also serve real fruit ice cream, a range of sorbets and Eighthirty coffee.
The annual Head of the Harbour secondary school rowing competition is being held on Lake Pupuke, from the Sylvan Park Avenue entrance near Milford, between 8am and 5pm on Saturday February 13th. Hundreds of competitors from schools from around the northern region all come to Lake Pupuke to compete in this prestigious annual rowing regatta.
PETER LOVES HIS E-BIKE
The Channel Mag camera snapped this photo of local Milford identity Peter Carter on his electric bike during January, having just returned on one of his regular trips to Devonport. The e-bike craze is catching on with our seasoned Milford folk, with business association manager Murray Hill being a recent convert.
ENJOYING AMERICA’S CUP FOILING? TRY IT YOURSELF…
Madloop Windfoiling on Lake Pupuke at Sylvan Park is where you can be foiling for yourself. They also offer both windfoiling lessons and rentals to everyone from kids to adults. Get in touch via their website… www.madloop.co.nz
NEW APARTMENTS ON THEIR WAY
Milford is known as a great place to live and the options are growing rapidly with two great apartment developments now under way in Milford. In late January Milford Centre owners NZRPG were rocketing ahead with the steelwork on their Omana North apartments being built on the mall site and construction was also under way on the Milford 110 apartments on the corner of Kitchener and Pierce Roads. The Omana North development offers 63 highly appointed apartments over nine levels. Visit: www. omananorth.co.nz There are five apartments on each of the first three levels of the Milford 110 development, all two-bedroom plus one flexi room. The sub penthouse level offers four spacious two-bedroom plus one flexi room apartments. Almost every apartment enjoys commanding views over the Hauraki Gulf and adjacent Milford village. Visit: www.milford110.co.nz At Channel Mag we love this sort of progress being made in our local town centres.
Fine O Wine Milford
– devoted to organic, natural and vegan wines
Organic wine fans celebrate. This Milford newcomer is just the place to grab your favourite natural and organic wines.
The interest in all things natural and organic has grown rapidly in recent times, with consumers reaching for the organic bottle more often. For years Fine O Wine has been a real hit in Point Chev and Grey Lynn, so owner Sekhar Reddy has brought the goods over the bridge to Milford. With over 600 natural and organic wines, they are New Zealand's largest provider. Fine O Wine owner Sekhar Reddy with his family outside his new Milford store. So now there is no need for Shore people to cross the bridge to get natural wine.
Sekhar Reddy has a passion for organic wines and recognised a GinLab. They’ve become a one-stop shop for anything organic and gap between winemakers and consumers. He has worked in the local natural, even stocking organic beers and non-alcoholic beverages. industry for over a decade and believes strongly in the benefits of With this variety, customers can enjoy beverages – such as their gin making wines with grapes grown without sprays and chemicals like and tonics – guilt free of any nasties, while supporting a growing Kiwi herbicides and fungicides and other additives. company.
“Most organic wineries are family or boutique operations,” Fine O Wine Milford had their Grand Opening in November, and explained Sekhar, when we met him in-store at Fine O Wine Milford the store, located beside The Swiss Café and Bakery in Milford Road, during January. “Their organic wines were being sold a bit online and has quickly become very popular. Throughout the year they will be in limited numbers in stores. We could see potential for stores that having regular tasting evenings held in conjunction with wine growers, specialise and represent them well. So that is what we do.” distillers and brewers. There is a great website as well for those who
Realising New Zealand’s limited availability of natural and organic like to buy online. This has an extensive range of your favourite wines, Fine O Wine opened in 2018 with a small sample of chosen organic and natural alcoholic beverages. They ship nationwide unique natural and organic wines. Now they provide the nation with through the fastest courier system, so you won’t be waiting long ‘till a hand-picked selection of fantastic wines and craft beers from New you’re sipping away! But the easiest way for Channel Mag readers is Zealand producers, as well as Australia and many other European and just to pop in and see Sekhar and his wonderful team at their spacious South American countries. new store. It is so convenient and friendly with easy parking right at
Sekhar says that he has visited just about all of his organic the door. winemakers and vineyards over the past three years.
New Zealander’s continue to call for organic vineyard products, Fine O Wine Milford – 5 Milford Road, Milford. so Fine O Wine expanded their range by adding hand crafted spirits. Email: milford@fineowine.co.nz or Phone 09 215 2021. They have more than 300 organic gin options in their area called the Visit: www.fineowine.co.nz
