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Wednesday 22 February 2017

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Businesses help neighbours

Simon Bloomberg

Senior reporter Reporter

simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz

When Debra Clements and Tiffaney Williams first saw plans for the Queen St upgrade they were seriously concerned that their event-hire business, Got It Covered, wouldn’t be able to continue

operating. Got It Covered and the neighbouring Salvation Army Shop were going to lose their access to Queen St when stage one of the $11million upgrade commenced and, without any rear access to their businesses, faced the prospect of man-handling all their deliveries in and out of their

shops. But thanks to the generosity of another neighbour, Lawrie Wilson from Richmond Auto Court, it’s been business as usual with Lawrie freeing up a section of his car yard to allow vehicles to access to his two neighbouring businesses. “Our truck is in and out of here 20 or 30 times a week, so we abso-

lutely needed to get access,” Debra says. “We have 400 chairs, tables and wine barrels and hundreds of table cloths that go in and out, as well as customer picks-ups, so we wouldn’t have been able to run our business without Lawrie’s generosity.” Tiffaney says Lawrie’s offer was also timely because February is

Got It Covered’s busiest month for weddings and they were desperate for a solution. “We didn’t have any answers and we said to the council ‘we had to have access’,” Tiffaney says. “Then Lawrie offered to clear some of his car yard to let our truck and

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