Nor'West News: September 03, 2019

4 Tuesday September 3 2019
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Mairehau’s Pay it Forward
gift shop targeted by burglars
•From page 1
Luckily for the shop, nothing
was stolen, which Mrs Arthur
thinks is due to the alarm system
and the fact there was no cash on
the premises.
“They didn’t take anything, I
think they were just looking for
money,” she said.
A wheelie bin was used to
break the store window, the till
was opened and draws were
sifted through.
The shop is run by The Neighbourhood
Trust and is a social
enterprise where 60 of the city’s
creative entrepreneurs can sell
their products.
The shop also provides social
support to budding entrepreneurs
and runs craft classes for
the community at subsidised
rates so crafts can be accessed by
a wide range of people.
Entrepreneurs who sell their
products through the shop make
their own profits, and a commission
goes to The Neighbourhood
Trust, which puts the money
back into the community.
Mrs Arthur said she didn’t
know what would lead someone
to break into the shop.
“We definitely won’t be
brought down by it,” Mrs Arthur
said.
BROKEN: The Pay it Forward shop was broken into last week.
The shop has received a lot of
community feedback and online
support following the break-in.
A Facebook post from Pay it
Forward said: “Unfortunately,
the word hasn’t got out to everyone
that our profits go back into
the community. So the people
that broke into our shop this
morning didn’t realise that they
weren’t just hurting us, but they
were also hurting the local community.”
Mrs Arthur said the attempted
burglary has done the opposite
of what the offenders probably
wanted. The shop has since reopened
and the window has been
repaired. “It’s made us feel loved,
we will prevail,” she said.
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Councillors to decide
intersection’s future
•From page 1
The seven city councillors on
the committee met for 23min, and
heard a public forum presentation
then referred the community
board’s recommendation and city
council traffic report to the city
council meeting.
Papanui Ward city
councillor Mike Davidson
said there was no
recommendation “out of
respect to Cr Keown.”
Cr Keown said he was
grateful the committee
chose not to make a
recommendation in his
absence.
Committee chairwoman
and city councillor
Pauline Cotter said because Cr
Keown was unable to attend
the meeting, it would have been
unfair to make a decision on the
matter without him having the
Pauline Cotter
NOR’WEST NEWS
DECISION: The city
council will make
a final decision
on whether traffic
signals will be put
at the Harewood,
Breens and Gardiners
Rds intersection.
opportunity to contribute to the
discussion and debate.
“We are definitely not shying
away from a decision at all. We
were caught between a rock and
a hard place. If a decision had
been contrary to the community
board recommendation, it would
have been a bad look
without Aaron there,”
she said.
Cr Cotter said the
committee considered
delaying the decision
until the next committee
meeting, but that would
mean the report would
not go before the city
council before the end of
the electoral term.
Cr Cotter said the decision
made by the committee was
ultimately to keep the ball rolling
and not further delay a decision
for the community.
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