Nor'West News: November 20, 2018
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>18 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
New group for Papanui businesses<br />
Local<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
• By Ashleigh Monk<br />
PAPANUI BUSINESS owners<br />
now have a place to go to share<br />
their experiences.<br />
The newly-formed Papanui<br />
Business Community last month<br />
had its first meeting.<br />
The group’s co-ordinator,<br />
Papanui Ray White owner<br />
Vanessa<br />
Golightly said<br />
she set the<br />
group up in the<br />
hopes it would<br />
better connect<br />
businesses in<br />
the area.<br />
Vanessa<br />
Golightly<br />
“I just<br />
thought there<br />
are a lot of neat<br />
people in this community, and<br />
I didn’t even know who half of<br />
them were,” she said.<br />
“We had the first meeting last<br />
month and it was really good,<br />
we had I think about <strong>20</strong> people<br />
show up.”<br />
She said she had set up a<br />
private Facebook group to<br />
make sure members were in<br />
the loop.<br />
“It’s about getting to know<br />
each other and hopefully getting<br />
people supporting using local a<br />
bit more . . . and it’s nice to walk<br />
down the road or go to the coffee<br />
shop and say ‘gidday’ to people.”<br />
The group would be separate<br />
from the more formal Papanui<br />
Village Business Association,<br />
which was formed after the<br />
earthquakes. The group only had<br />
two members left and no longer<br />
held formal meetings.<br />
Ms Golightly said the Papanui<br />
Business Community would forgo<br />
recording meetings, as the Papanui<br />
Village Business Association had<br />
previously done.<br />
“I think after a while people<br />
sort of lost interest. I talked to<br />
the two remaining members before<br />
I set up this group because I<br />
didn’t want to step on any toes,<br />
and they were really supportive,”<br />
she said.<br />
CONNECTING:<br />
The Papanui<br />
Business<br />
Community<br />
group<br />
recently held<br />
its first monthly<br />
meeting.<br />
Papanui-Innes Community<br />
Board chairwoman Ali<br />
Jones said the board “fully<br />
supported” the Papanui Business<br />
Community.<br />
“I think anything that<br />
encourages and strengthens<br />
relationships, whether it’s<br />
residential or business or both,<br />
has got to be a good thing.”<br />
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