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Personal stories on painted hoe People from many countries have been telling their personal stories of how they arrived in New Zealand at the ‘This is Us – he waka eke noa’ workshops that have been held during July.

From left: Carolynn Tepou, Bronz Cross, Kaye Hubner, Liam Banbury, Leiona Tupou,

Stories from people who originated in Ireland, Israel, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Tolaga Bay and Niue to name a few, are being portrayed in an exhibition that is running for the next month at The Incubator.

‘Where did we all come from?’ and ‘where are we going?’ have been questions that many of us face individually and collectively.

Workshop participants were encouraged to design their own hoe or paddle, portraying their personal journey on one side, and their vision for Tauranga on the other.

Marijke de Jong, born in the Netherlands, immigrated with her family to NZ when she was about seven months old.

“My parents had no idea about this country.

We travelled a lot as children and I went home to Holland when I was a teenager. I came back to NZ in my 20s.”

Marijke’s mother is originally from Israel.

“My grandparents are holocaust survivors. My grandfather was in Auschwitz and my grandmother was hiding like Anne Frank in the Netherlands but in much worse conditions.”

During her late teens Marijke studied photography.

“I did my project on the Jewish culture in Auckland and discovered that there was a lot.”

Thus began the start of a 20-year journey discovering this part of her identity. On visiting Israel, she found a sense of belonging, returning to make NZ her permanent home.

“I feel settled now and have a sense of identity while living in an adopted country.”

On the back of her hoe, a Star of David with images of eyes that are open and closed represent how she started collecting parts of herself when she landed in Israel and her personal journey of awakening.

Carolynn Tepou, a descendent and daughter from Niue Island, hails from the villages of Alofi and Mutalau. Her hoe design incorporates a shell necklace and flower lei and honours her grandparents.

“Especially my grandfather who joined many Pacific Island families coming to New Zealand for a better life and better opportunities. I wanted to honour his ways of bringing us up. He was a man of faith and family. He was a hard worker and great provider.”

“The flower head lei represents celebration and unity and what the Pacific Islands are all about.

Coming together, enjoying one another over food, over culture, song and dance. It’s a celebration.”

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dreams with symbols of Christianity and Pasifika represented in the cross, fish, and olive leaf.

“Being a woman of faith, my hopes for Tauranga are that we are kinder, loving on humanity. It’s about making a difference. I connect to this because of faith, family, culture, song, dance, language and words, and I’m proud to be from Niue.”

Bronz Cross from Tolaga Bay has incorporated East Coast rivers and mountains in his hoe design.

“My uncles and aunties all gave me different stories about our iwi and where we’ve come from. The past is almost dark. I definitely felt the impacts of colonisation. I saw a generational hurt in my people and wondered why.”

Bronz says he sees the past as something to learn from, something to propel us forward.

The back of his hoe portrays his vision for the future. His theme of hope, life and peace also is displayed in Les Geraghty’s hoe design.

“My great-grandparents came out from Ireland, leaving in 1865, approximately ten years after the Irish famine and arriving in New Zealand a year after the Battle of Gate Pa,” says Les. His hoe features a celtic cross, a map outline of Ireland, a tear representing the sadness of leaving Ireland, photographs, a silver fern with both a green and silver side, and the

Southern Cross.

“My dad used it as a metaphor for me and my siblings that we should always look up, be positive and take the opportunities that come along in life.”

A three-leaf clover in the design stands for faith, hope and love “which embodies my outlook on life”.

Karolina Bemova arrived in NZ about 16 years ago while visiting her mother.

Her hoe incorporates Slovakian designs and hearts, and reflects her desire for people to combine cultures, taking the best from each culture, not dividing and highlighting differences, but bringing them together.

“The theme of Matariki is seven sisters so there are seven hearts. Down the bottom on one side is a Maori design and the opposite side has a Slovakian design.”

The ‘This is Us – he waka eke noa’ project is a collaboration between Tauranga Sunrise Rotary club and the Incubator. It began in June with the unveiling of a beautifully painted sevenmetre-long waka, representing not only the first journey over water by early Maori settlers, but a journey that each immigrant has made when moving to New Zealand.

The culmination of the project is the exhibition of the painted hoe, now on display at the Incubator until September 26.

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Hitting the harbour with Kewpie For Tauranga skipper Amy Neale, nothing beats a day cruising around the Tauranga Harbour in one of New Zealand’s most historic vessels.

And that’s why she’s the proud new owner of the native Kauri 1953, 16-metre boat Kewpie.

The Kewpie scenic harbour cruises are set to kick off in the September school holidays and Amy couldn’t be more excited.

Kewpie was originally built in the Bay of Islands for the internationally famous cream run.

Departing daily from Russell to visit the outer islands and pick up milk cans, as well as ferry passengers and mail.

It soon became an extremely popular tourist attraction.

Kewpie was named after cream run boat guide Ted Cubitt, who became one of New Zealand’s most famous guides. It has been the boat name since it was launched in 1953.

The vessel moved to Tauranga in February 2004 as a houseboat, and then former owner Henry Althuazen kicked off the harbour cruises.

Amy bought Kewpie in July this year, after crewing the boat for the past couple of years.

Despite the excitement, Amy says she doesn’t plan on changing much about how the boat operates. “I don’t want to change anything – it’s really neat as it is. When you have a business and it is super busy as it is, why would you?�

Along with scenic harbour cruises, the boat also offers three-hour private charters which often take place at sunset. The vessel is licensed for up to 75 people.

Seeing Tauranga from out on the water can change how you view the city, Amy says. “It’s so important to get out and experience the harbour. I have had some people – older people that have lived here their entire lives – that have never been out. “It changes how you see a place – and it’s really neat at night heading down to the Port of Tauranga and seeing all the lights.

She expects to be jam-packed this summer, working all week and making multiple trips in a day. “We target locals with this boat, so I think it will be quite busy. It’s family-friendly, and it’s always nice to get locals on the water.�

Amy reckons she’s the only female skipper of tourist boats in the Bay of Plenty, and the first female owner of Kewpie. “People are often surprised when they find out I am a female skipper. But I have always been into the outdoors growing up in Ohope – fishing, snorkelling and everything water-based. “Plus having two brothers I was raised that way as well.�

Amy says Kewpie’s rich history makes the vessel even more special to take out on the water.

The scenic harbour cruise departs from Pilot Bay Wharf. The service is expected to return on September 26.

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Two decades in the Sun The Weekend Sun has never been shy of an opinion with strong ‘Letters to the Editor’ pages and robust viewpoints and humour from regular and guest columnists. Here are few comments from some of the more well-known opinion writers over the years.

The SunMedia team today is still working hard to bring readers their favourite publications and live internet news. Great technology and flexible working conditions means most staff are well equipped to work from home when social distancing measures are in place.

A unique skills set, dogged determination and whiff of an opportunity sparked a life-changing venture for the Rogers family.

Two decades ago they bundled it all into a tiny office and launched their big plan with an even bigger circulation.

For Brian and Claire Rogers and their team of enthusiastic staff and clients, it was a matter of holding their breath and jumping in boots and all.

And so, 20 years ago, SunMedia was born – an ambitious undertaking that included regional weekly newspaper The Weekend Sun, rural newspaper Coast & Country and Waterline Magazine.

“The region was ready for locally-owned, locally-operated, grass roots news and we could see the overseas-owned dinosaurs weren’t efficient or filling the needs of the community,” Brian says.

The new company used many of the ingredients of a good team. Brian had been a journalist all his working life and Claire’s background is in marketing, sales and business.

“Our kids and parents were hugely supportive and we had great mates and community and business networks backing us up.

“There was a really big gap in the market because there hadn’t been a weekend paper for about 15 years, since The Bay Sun had shut down,” Brian says.

And there was nothing “flashy” about the new venture, says Claire.

They put their resources into new technology, adopting new publishing software such as InDesign and innovations such as double computer screens so staff could access tools of the trade faster.

“We started in 2nd Avenue – a tiny place and with one new car, Brian’s mother’s car and a bicycle. We have seen other businesses go broke because they went out all flashy …

We were falling over each other at the start.”

In tandem with The Weekend Sun, the Rogers launched their own monthly rural tabloid Coast & Country.

With the region’s healthy farm and horticulture economy, there was strong demand for rural news and advertising and that has continued to this day.

Professional graphic design has been a big focus for the company, and all of its publications. Claire says a few key dedicated staff made the venture possible.

And the basic principles of The Weekend Sun haven’t changed much either since Day 1.

“Light, bright and entertaining,” says Brian and a focus on “looking forward not back”, says Claire.

And the community has responded and benefitted over the years.

“It has been a huge thing for the community. There has been a lot of organisations that have thrived because of the publicity,” Brian says.

Things like the What’s On are a big commitment and effort to produce, but allow groups with little or no budget to tell people what they are doing.

Claire says perhaps the biggest role they play is that of community connection, made more powerful by the fact The Weekend Sun has total coverage to homes in the Western Bay of Plenty – now 70,500 altogether.

“It’s that belief in the community, and doing our best to help businesses thrive and events flourish, that keeps us going.”

And that sense of community is in-house as well with staff often coming back to work there again after leaving for OE or study, or to try something different.

“A lot of people have left and come back over the years and that’s been awesome,” Claire says.

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Possibly the two busiest people this week were the electoral offi in Tauranga for the largest ward cers for the Tauranga and Western of Te Papa.” The Papa ward now Nominations closed Bay councils. covers a larger area Te last elections. This than the today at midday anyone wanting for to stand as mayor Pa residents said came about when Pyes lor for either council. or councilthey the Greerton village had more to do with Tauranga District which was the ward than with Welcome Bay, Peter Allsop says Council electoral officer they were previou sly rephave left it to the that as usual most candidates resented under. last week to get Peter Allsop says nations in. their nomithere has also been interest in the Taurang a large “There are enough trict Health Board. a constitute of the Discandidates in each torate and at this elecstage we have nine Down standing District the road at the Western Bay of Plenty Council commu nications officer Peter

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Bill Faulkner was a Tauranga City councillor and wrote a no-holds-barred column from soon after the paper started through until 2012.

He regularly aired his opinions on council business, much to the dislike of some other elected members. His only rule was ‘don’t edit my columns’.

“The other councillors hated it so they tried to shut me down.

“They talked about collective responsibility.”

He says it was OK to oppose something leading up to a decision but the protocol was that once the council had made its decision everyone had to toe the line.

“I wasn’t having a bar of that”.

Brian Rogers started off writing only when something sparked him, but the column was so popular it became a weekly ‘Rogers Rabbits’. He launches his witty style at all sorts of subjects.

He says the paper encourages strong opinions and that extends through to the letters pages where people are allowed to express their own thoughts, with a large amount of freedom.

“We have taken a very fair approach to letting people have their say but we have made it clear where the line is drawn between opinion and reported fact.”

He has had plenty of feedback and verbal “hidings” over his own columns.

“There are a lot of people out there who don’t think you are entitled to an opinion apart from theirs.

“But I think we have had our finger on the pulse of the town and plenty of other people have offered their opinion. There has been thousands of letters over the years.”

Winston Watusi: “I came aboard sometime early 2003 when the office was still in the avenues. Head-hunted from the other paper

by Brian and Claire. Thank heavens.

I regard the column as primarily existing to promote local music. And sometimes other things. Many musicians fail to appreciate what a huge thing that is - most newspapers simply don’t bother with local music.

In the beginning it was called The Watusi Brothers. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Then my partner in writing was unfortunately arrested and jailed and I inherited the mantle.

Feedback is mostly very positive and supportive. Thank y’all! Weirdly, it’s the things I don’t think twice about that sometimes cause offence - when I try to bait people no one notices.

I did get an erotic letter one time (which was opened by someone in the office. They were quite surprised)...”

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Twenty years of being there when it counts The development of SunLive saw a major evolution for Sun Media and the introduction of breaking news coverage.

Ross Brown - a veteran of 30 years of news photography - came on as general manager to help integrate the new addition.

Until then reporters and sales staff had been providing community content for the community paper so suddenly having to adapt to 24-7 news coverage and the new concept of digital advertising was something completely different.

Brian says the region was ready for an alternative to the old daily newspaper. “A lot of news websites are just copies of what’s in their print versions and SunLive is not that at all. SunLive is not just an online version of The Weekend Sun. It’s an instant, hard news site with a different energy.�

The company’s present day general manager Jay Burston designed the IT that underpins it all and before long the live news website was reaching a huge audience. “We launched SunLive in 2009 in order to provide a reliable, timely news service to Tauranga and the Western Bay,� Jay says.

Ross says online news wasn’t straightforward in the early days. Simple things like sending photos from the scene of a news story were not as easy because mobile internet was not great. “But we set the benchmark really high and we still do.�

He says The Weekend Sun and SunLive complement each other really well and each serves its own role in the community. “Because of the change in the way we get our news, SunLive and The Weekend Sun is a great combination. “And everything is free.�

Brian says they had known for a while that breaking news and dailynewspaper style news was destined for online but actually setting up a platform was quite costly.

However, when the cost was realistic and the time was right, they launched and now it is one of the most popular news websites in the country. “Because we put out a weekly paper we never tried to do hard news but when the time was right we went with the website and it was a good fit with the weekly papers and other titles.�

From humble beginnings SunLive is now the fourth most read news/ magazine website in New Zealand (Nielsen).

And it never stops - SunLive has undergone several major upgrades to provide more services, add apps, and to support the company’s other websites. It will have another major overhaul this year, Jay says.

Sam Taikato surveys the wreckage washed up from the Rena on Matakana Island when the ship finally broke up on January ˜°, Ë›Ë?˜˛.

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SunLive and The Weekend Sun have been at the forefront of many major events including the Rena disaster. “The Rena stories [and photos] were supplied to a lot of places

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First published July 9, 2010 The first man to positively identify Moko as the dolphin found dead on Matakana Island this week was also the first man to enjoy his company when the bottlenose arrived in Tauranga.

Sun Media director Brian Rogers paddled out in his kayak to meet Moko on June 3 when the dolphin followed the fishing boat Eskdale into Tauranga Harbour from Whakatane.

The joy Brian experienced as Moko played with his paddle on this day was a stark contrast to the low he felt yesterday when he saw the carcass lying in the sand on Matakana Island.

Pursuing a surfer’s tip-off that a dolphin similar in size to Moko was lying dead there, Brian ventured to the island at daybreak on Thursday.

Spotting various nicks in the carcass’ fin and noting several missing teeth, it was soon apparent to Brian that the dead dolphin was Moko.

This was later confirmed by DOC. SunLive broke the news that Moko was dead and has exclusive pictures and video of this sad find at www.sunlive.co.nz

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Brian and Ross jumped in the Waterline boat and went out to the Rena as soon as word broke that it was on the reef. “The crew were still hanging over the railings, having a smoke and a coffee and laughing about it,� says Brian. “I knew straight away it was going to be a massive environmental problem.�

Claire recalls the day she and Brian raced over to Matakana Island to see the mayhem and washed up cargo and take the Weekend Sun cover shot of Sam Taikato holding an oily Rena life ring. (pictured left). “I had the iPad on the back of the four wheeler. I was doing all the photos of the wreckage. It was like a scene from Mad Max. It was unreal, it was just insane.�

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Twenty years of being there when it counts The development of SunLive saw a major evolution for Sun Media and the introduction of breaking news coverage.

Ross Brown - a veteran of 30 years of news photography - came on as general manager to help integrate the new addition.

Until then reporters and sales staff had been providing community content for the community paper so suddenly having to adapt to 24-7 news coverage and the new concept of digital advertising was something completely different.

Brian says the region was ready for an alternative to the old daily newspaper. “A lot of news websites are just copies of what’s in their print versions and SunLive is not that at all. SunLive is not just an online version of The Weekend Sun. It’s an instant, hard news site with a different energy.�

The company’s present day general manager Jay Burston designed the IT that underpins it all and before long the live news website was reaching a huge audience. “We launched SunLive in 2009 in order to provide a reliable, timely news service to Tauranga and the Western Bay,� Jay says.

Ross says online news wasn’t straightforward in the early days. Simple things like sending photos from the scene of a news story were not as easy because mobile internet was not great. “But we set the benchmark really high and we still do.�

He says The Weekend Sun and SunLive complement each other really well and each serves its own role in the community. “Because of the change in the way we get our news, SunLive and The Weekend Sun is a great combination. “And everything is free.�

Brian says they had known for a while that breaking news and dailynewspaper style news was destined for online but actually setting up a platform was quite costly.

However, when the cost was realistic and the time was right, they launched and now it is one of the most popular news websites in the country. “Because we put out a weekly paper we never tried to do hard news but when the time was right we went with the website and it was a good fit with the weekly papers and other titles.�

From humble beginnings SunLive is now the fourth most read news/ magazine website in New Zealand (Nielsen).

And it never stops - SunLive has undergone several major upgrades to provide more services, add apps, and to support the company’s other websites. It will have another major overhaul this year, Jay says.

Sam Taikato surveys the wreckage washed up from the Rena on Matakana Island when the ship finally broke up on January ˜°, Ë›Ë?˜˛.

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First published July 9, 2010 The first man to positively identify Moko as the dolphin found dead on Matakana Island this week was also the first man to enjoy his company when the bottlenose arrived in Tauranga.

Sun Media director Brian Rogers paddled out in his kayak to meet Moko on June 3 when the dolphin followed the fishing boat Eskdale into Tauranga Harbour from Whakatane.

The joy Brian experienced as Moko played with his paddle on this day was a stark contrast to the low he felt yesterday when he saw the carcass lying in the sand on Matakana Island.

Pursuing a surfer’s tip-off that a dolphin similar in size to Moko was lying dead there, Brian ventured to the island at daybreak on Thursday.

Spotting various nicks in the carcass’ fin and noting several missing teeth, it was soon apparent to Brian that the dead dolphin was Moko.

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Brian and Ross jumped in the Waterline boat and went out to the Rena as soon as word broke that it was on the reef. “The crew were still hanging over the railings, having a smoke and a coffee and laughing about it,� says Brian. “I knew straight away it was going to be a massive environmental problem.�

Claire recalls the day she and Brian raced over to Matakana Island to see the mayhem and washed up cargo and take the Weekend Sun cover shot of Sam Taikato holding an oily Rena life ring. (pictured left). “I had the iPad on the back of the four wheeler. I was doing all the photos of the wreckage. It was like a scene from Mad Max. It was unreal, it was just insane.�

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It’s a family business Lois Natta is rural stock through and through.

The sales rep’ for the monthly Coast & Country newspaper and the annual edition of New Farm Dairies has been with the company since it started. She worked with Brian and Claire for eight years before that too.

And during that time she has never worked from the office but from home on various farms in various far-flung parts of the country.

She is one of two of the original half dozen at Sun Media who are still working there.

Coast & Country News covers and area from the rural hills of South Auckland, down through the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and King Country.

Lois says the family focus of Sun Media means she has been able to retain her lifestyle and she has clients who are more like family now.

“I’m a rural person and used to be a dairy farmer and live the lifestyle and knowledgeable about most things rural.

“We have lived rural and home-schooled the kids all while working for Claire and Brian. I love my job and I love Claire and Brian. They are just wonderful.”

Publications manager Kathy Sellars started just two months after the business got underway and recalls the close-quarters of the original two-room offices in 2nd Ave. “It was cosy.”

She has stuck around for similar reasons. Friendship. Claire was her support person at the birth of both her daughters and a bridesmaid at her wedding.

“They are not in it to make millions of dollars. They are into it to help people.”

For their part, Claire and Brian put the success of the company squarely back on the staff they have employed over the years and highlight recent events as evidence of this.

When the country was going into lockdown, almost every staff member worked from home to put out an edition of The Weekend Sun on March 27.

A government ban on community newspapers scuppered the four editions scheduled for April – the first and only time The Weekend Sun has not been delivered each week, in its 20 years.

As soon as it was allowed, the Weekend Sun was again produced from spare rooms and dining room tables across the region.

And reporters continued to produce and publish news for SunLive throughout the lockdown.

Brian says the company is very light on its feet, adaptable and able to change quickly if required.

“No need for a board meeting,” Claire says.

“It is a brilliant team – they really have been amazing.”

History in the making Sun Media now occupies the historic old former Bond Store at Number 1 The Strand – the oldest commercial building in Tauranga.

It was originally used to store imported goods and evidence of that can be found in the thick brick walls and the bars on the windows of the original part of the building.

It was used by Guinness Bros for 78 years, from 1908 before being sold to another wine and spirits dealer Hughes and Cossar in 1986.

It was then used by an assortment of businesses and in 1997 the original part of the building was

refurbished as a restaurant and bar.

It has been associated with the storage or sale of wine and spirits for most of its 137 years and the building still retains a function area next to The Weekend Sun reception area.

The building was purchased and lovingly restored by the Rogers family and staff in 2008, offering a much larger premises than what they originally started in and reclaimed much of the heritage attributes.

The owners are very proud of No.1 The Strand, a category One listed historic building and are pleased to have helped preserve this unique piece of local history.

John Key opens the new premises at Number ˜ The Strand with Claire and Brian Rogers dressed in late ˜°th cen tury period costume in the background.

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Lovebirds on the Koha Come and see Tauranga’s medical aid ship When driving over the Tauranga harbour bridge I often look down at the YWAM Koha ship berthed at the end of the dock.

It was due to sail to the Pacific Islands in May but because of the global pandemic it stayed here. I wondered about the crew on board, where they all hailed from and how they’d fared. I’d also heard there had been a postlockdown wedding between two of the captains.

The YWAM Koha is a NZ-registered medical aid ship, but it’s also Tauranga’s own. Director Marty Emmett says over the last year a deep sense of connection has grown between the Tauranga community and the vessel, with many locals volunteering their time and expertise to help with the ship’s mission of taking medical aid up into the Pacific Islands.

The plan is for Koha to be open for public tours later this year, but being curious, once we reached Alert Level 1 I went on board to check it out.

After signing in, it was up and down little steps until popping through one door I found myself in the galley where Bryan Clark, Koha’s chef from California, was working away on food preparation with Shaileerae Cabreros from Hawaii. Shaileerae arrived last July, and Bryan in March, just before the nationwide lockdown.

They are feeding around 18 people twice daily.

“Once in a while I surprise them with French toast, pancakes or eggs,” says Bryan who has worked in the newspaper world for 46 years. “It depends on how early I wake up or how much coffee I’ve had.”

He laughs as he recounts becoming the adopted grandfather of a family of seven who arrived for a week to

volunteer their time on board.

He’s a grandfather himself 15 times over with nine great grandchildren living back in the USA and Canada, staying connected via the internet.

Each week Koha receives food from Good Neighbour through its Food Rescue programme.

“It’s been amazing,” says Marty.

We head up more steps until reaching the bridge, we find the newly married captains – Stephanie and Jonathan Birdsall.

Both from the UK, they also both attended the Maritime College in 1974.

“Stephanie started her cadetship with BP in 1974 and I started mine with Mobil Oil in 1973,” says Jonathan.

They became more aware of each other during the last decade and found they often missed each other by days as Stephanie would finish on board a ship with Jonathan arriving to captain the same ship shortly afterwards.

They made a point of meeting up in Brisbane last year and a romance blossomed. Their original plans to be married in the UK with family around them in June were quashed by the pandemic. Jonathan works week on and week off as a captain for the Interislander ferry but had taken five months break to attend a YWAM DTS course in Nelson. Stephanie flew into NZ just before lockdown and when the country returned to Level 3 they made the decision to go ahead with a small low key wedding. Koha’s crew however turned it into a bigger celebration, putting up bunting around the deck with a ship party and cake.

The vessel and its crew are hoping to welcome the public aboard mid-October, Covid dependent of course.

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Let’s take a tour of Greerton starting at one of the most iconic Greerton stores, Greerton Furnishings. Sitting on the corner of Chadwick and Greerton Roads this long-established furniture store boasts experienced interior design specialist Susan Snodgrass.

As part of the service Greerton Furnishings offers a free home or in-store interior design consultation aimed at helping you to visualise what can be created in your home and how you can best utilise the space available to you.

Susan passionately believes in connecting with people and helping to create something beautiful for their family home, retirement home or apartment. The extensive showroom allows you to visualise what can be created in your very own home or Susan will come to your home and show you how to maximise and add value to your living spaces.

Small independently owned retailers have done it tough so far this year, along with many other industries, however each of our Greerton businesses have strived to adapt and fulfil their customers needs and now they need us to support them more than ever

as they slowly bounce back.

New Zealand is a nation of pet owners and lovers and of course many of our house pets need grooming and where better to go for that service than Pets By Design in Cameron Road Greerton. They have been in operation since 2004 and today focus exclusively on a grooming Salon with owner Jill Simpson who has been grooming since 2002. In that time she has had over 36 000 dogs through the door, which equates to around 650,000 toe nails!

Jill says “Dogs are our passion and we see many that other groomers cannot manage.

Being a small quiet salon, we are great for nervous and anxious dogs, without the noise and excitement from large numbers helps keep them quiet and relaxed.”

They use a Bach flower mix and happy hoods to help calm the most anxious.

“Believe it or not many of those dogs settle nicely be themselves once their owners have left.”

Jills says Pets by Design caters for all sizes from tiny puppies to the largest Great Dane.

“Nervousness, badly behaved, knotty, dirty coats, extra-long coats, skin conditions, flea infestations, dryer phobias and teaching dogs that brushing is OK are just a few unexpected things we can work through daily.”

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Robyn Parker from Robyn’s Cottage.

“If you haven’t been out to Greerton shopping lately, come out and have a look and support these local business owners and Buy Local Buy Tauranga” By shopping locally you know that you are not only supporting local business owners but their family and the wider community and now, more than ever, every dollar you spend in your local centre is a dollar that will help our whole community to grow and succeed.

Another of Greerton Village’s unique stores is Robyn’s Cottage. In 1999 husband and wife Robyn and Rex Parker started a knitwear/yarn supply company under the name RnR Knitwear while living in Masterton selling knitwear around craft markets, suppling shops, exporting to Japan and supplying machine knitting yarn to machine knitters and weavers around New Zealand and Australia. In late 2005 they returned to Tauranga and re-established the business, renaming it Robyn’s Cottage in 2013 and branching out into other crafts in 2010.

“Crafts included now are machine knitting, hand knitting, fibre and fabric dying, crocheting, sewing, cross stitch, card work and machine embroidery and we’re an authorised Brother dealer too,” Robyn says.

How lucky are we in Greerton to have attracted a number of new, young business owners with fresh ideas and the willingness to work hard to build their business and one such business is the Nail & Beauty Lounge in Cameron Road.

Sapan Shah

GREERTON FOODMARKET GREERTON VILLAGE

This is a truly remarkable success story of three young women. Around five years ago Hannah, Sophia and Cake arrived in New Zealand from Vietnam as independent young women in their early 20’s. They met up working together at a Nail Bar in the Tauranga area, became great friends, saw an opportunity in Greerton and grabbed it!

Hence the birth of the Nail and Beauty Lounge in Greerton. Since opening almost a year ago they have built up a loyal clientele with some customers travelling from as far away as Hamilton and Auckland – just to receive the amazing, friendly service on offer.

It’s not all about the nails for these ladies either, they offer a full range of beauty treatments through waxing, eyelash extensions, lifting and tinting.

These are just a few of the businesses that make up the eclectic mix of retail and service providers in Greerton Village – famous for our stunning Spring display of flowering Cherry Trees and Yarn bombing among other things. So if you haven’t been out to Greerton shopping lately, come out and have a look and support these local business owners and Buy Local Buy Tauranga.

Because when you spend locally you are saving local businesses.

Meet more locals here: www.buytauranga.co.nz

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