Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 9 December 2020
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A village divided which is causing further disharmony between resiReporter dents. jacqui@waimeaweekly.co.nz A document published by Residents at Olive Estate the NZ Retirement VilLifestyle Village are taking lages Residents Associasides, with complaints the tion claims the Olive Escentral point of division. tate Lifestyle Village have Lawyers have been en- increased their weekly fees gaged to deal with by 8% to cover complaints which the costs they have not been adhave incurred in dressed internally legal fees from between Olive Esresident’s comtate management plaints. and the residents. The article went And while some on to say resiresidents did not dents became want to be named very angry afbecause they ter the meeting thought it would Kristin Nimmo with those resibring what they dents that had felt was unwarcomplained. ranted attention to those One observer has said who were complaining and it has a feeling like the that it wasn’t a fair por- Wright Family Waimea trayal of the village, other Village saga. sources feared speaking “Olive Estate subsidises the out publicly because of po- weekly outgoings charge tential repercussions from paid by residents,” says management. Olive Estate’s managing The complaints that have director, Kristin Nimmo, incurred legal costs on “and this subsidy equates the side of Olive Estate to approximately $255,000 have formed another issue per year.”
Jacqui Rawson
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Popular heli service moves Steve Page According to CEO and co-owner of Helicopters Nelson, Pete Darling, it made good sense to relocate the headquarters from Wakefield to Nelson Airport. Helicopters Nelson is a company with a big reputation running 3 craft and catering for all sorts of airborne requirements. “While we still do search and rescue and are very experienced in firefighting, we also are seeing a steady increase in other types of work,” says Pete. From flying to popular restaurants to dropping off mountainbikers, our company offers a wide range of services. All you need to do is make contact with our Operations manager Thomas Darling. Pete is a highly-qualified instructor and has another 2 pilots working with him, as well as a team of staff looking after the customers. One of their more popular services is to transport to and from some of the great hunting areas the region has to offer, including Glazebrook, the legendary hunting property in Marlborough. “We are able to help out customers who are time-poor and need to get anywhere efficiently and comfortably,” says Pete. While Pete and his team enjoyed their previous location in Wakefield, they’re now situated in Dakota St, just through the roundabout at the airport.
Pete and Michelle Darling of Helicopters Nelson. Photo: Steve Page.
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