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enews 6 July, 2012 call Onehunga Town Centre’s ICON Security Guard
Satia Sami
Dial 111
Security Guard Satia will be asking businesses in the town centre for information about security systems already in place (CCTVs and whether you engage a Security Patrol service). If you have a CCTV, we‟d like to come and talk to you about sharing footage that might assist Police in their enquiries. Your information will be kept confidential.
Planning is underway for our next Heritage Festival, being held on Saturday 29th September, from 11.00am to 2.00pm.
Tuesday morning!
Cheers
We‟ll have the usual array of entertainment for children and families, celebrating our local heritage, and for this year a closer look at the Manukau Harbour and how it has shaped Onehunga‟s past. With horse and cart rides, music, entertainment, face painting and balloons the Heritage Festival is a fantastic crowd-puller for Onehunga. The OBA is grateful for the support of our community committee who help us to put on this fabulous FREE event.
Cost-effective radio advertising deals still available!
Amanda, Debbie & Briar
Please note: If your business lies within the Onehunga business precinct you are automatically a member of Onehunga Business Association - paying a part of your rates to fund the OBA.
If your business has a CCTV, we’d like to coordinate coverage with you
Onehunga Heritage Festival 2012
Red bins are emptied every Tuesday morning; Blue bins every 2nd Tuesday: NEXT on July 10 and July 24. Please put your bins out ready for Tuesday collection on Monday nights after close of business and remove bins off the footpath and back onto your business property first thing
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CCTV coverage making Onehunga safer
We‟re now looking at adding more cameras to cover other problem-prone areas in the town centre. But before we do this, we want to make sure we‟re not doubling up and putting cameras where businesses may already be covering outside areas with their own cameras.
Rubbish collections
OBA Committee Peter Gibson, President (Parkinson & Bouskill) - 636 3300 Debbie Leaver (The Library Café & Function Venue) - 636 7292 Denise Jukes (Jukes Espresso) - 636 6614 Chantelle East (Urban Streetwear Clothing) - 636 0226 Teresa Jacques (Westpac) - 634 8555 Ross Mudafar (Onehunga Family Pharmacy) - 622 2865 Bridget Graham (Deputy Chairperson, Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board) - 301 0101
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Outside business hours, on Sundays & Public Holidays please call Police
For great advice on making you safe in your business, read New Zealand Police’s Business Crime Prevention publication. Stop by Onehunga Business Association for a copy or read it online here: http://www.police.govt.nz/safety/business-crime-prevention.html
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Remember our Onehunga Security Text Alert Service! Help us keep on top of crime in Onehunga. Contact us with good descriptions of thieves or security risks immediately following an incident and we‟ll send out a text to warn other businesses. PHONE Onehunga Business Association on 636-8535 with details including: Sex, Height / Build / Hair colour and length, Ethnicity, Age, Distinguishing features eg: tattoos, What they're wearing, Other details eg: bags, hats, sunglasses, Description of people they‟re with. Your info will also help the Onehunga Security Guard and Police apprehend thieves and others who represent a security threat in the area.
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CCTV coverage making Onehunga safer Onehunga Heritage Festival 2012 Cost-effective radio advertising deals still available! Let‟s Car Pool! Get your business in the 2013 Onehunga Guide Join Onehunga Business Association‟s Committee Sitel brings +200 workers to Onehunga Changes at Onehunga Police Station Community Patrol initiative for Onehunga Onehunga Security Update: Scams & sad stories Onehunga Event Calendar Rubbish collections: next blue bin collection dates!
As businesses in Onehunga‟s town centre know, Onehunga Business Association operates a network of more than 20 CCTV cameras that have proved highly successful in identifying people engaged in illegal activities from car thefts to burglaries. The cameras are operated by our security guard, Satia Sami, and she‟s been able to prevent trouble from happening when she‟s spotted suspicious activity.
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Not so long ago we had a rash of thefts of mobile phones from local shops. Please remind your staff not to leave mobile phones (and other tempting personal items including handbags, wallets and laptops) on store counters or under them. Keep your personal valuables locked away in areas that customers cannot access or, in the case of your mobile, keep it on you - in a pocket or phone lanyard for example.
Father‟s Day Celebration
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Reminder to watch out for mobile phone thefts
Saturday 1st September
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Scams and sad stories We‟ve noticed that there are several kids hanging about Onehunga town centre at the moment asking people for money for “Walkathons” or other charitable sounding activities. We suspect that these activities are bogus and that these kids are using the charities as an excuse to get money for themselves. Please contact the OBA or Satia, our Security Guard, if you see anybody “panhandling” in Onehunga. If they‟re legit, they should have a Council-issued permit enabling them to collect for a charity on the street. Also in the last few days a very handicapped boy who walks on his hands has been asking for money, saying he‟s hungry. He appears to be working with a friend and again is likely to be collecting money. If you want to help this boy, please buy him some food, don‟t give money.
(With Onehunga Community Centre. Father‟s Day is Sunday 2 September.)
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School Holidays = lots of kids out and about School kids are on holiday right now and we‟ll see lots more kids roaming about Onehunga town centre until Monday July 16 when they return to school for term three. Temptations in shops may lead to an increase in shoplifting over this period, so we urge retailers and their staff to be alert so you can head off any wayward behavior. If you need any help please call Satia, our Security Guard - all her details are at right!
Onehunga Event Calendar
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Onehunga Security Update
Radio advertising opportunities for OBA members
Onehunga Business Association Amanda Kinzett, Manager Briar Millar, Events Debbie Harkness, Communications 212A Onehunga Mall (upstairs) P: 09 636 8535 F: 09 636 8542 E: business@onehunga.net.nz W: www.onehunga.net.nz Onehunga Onehunga1
Onehunga Business Association is recommencing our radio advertising campaign in July, with ads on More FM, Mai FM and The Sound. As we did previously in 2009 and 2010 we are offering these spots directly to our member business at a discounted co-op advertising rate. Members are offered 15-second advertisements, played as a „donut‟ - filling the “hole” between a generic Onehunga „intro‟ and „outro‟ in a 30-second ad. These „donut‟ ads are available to members when the OBA is not using them for promoting Onehunga events. Advertising packages are available across all three stations on a month-by-month basis (minimum one month booking) at a cost of $450 per station per month (you‟ll receive a minimum of 40 spots). Please contact Briar Millar, OBA‟s Events Manager, if you‟re interested in finding out more information and the schedule of available spots, contact Briar directly on 636 8535.