Letters to the editor: Covid-19 tracer app easy to forget
25 Jan, 2021 08:00 PM
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Bay of Plenty Times So last week I trotted off to a shop in Greerton. Being part of the Team of Five Million I stood at the shop door looking for the Covid app to scan. Nothing to be seen. Went inside and asked an attendant who directed me to a countertop. Nothing to be seen. I was then told it was under a pile of new deliveries. I gave up.
Next shop stop was in Fraser Cove. No Covid app at the door. At the counter I was told I would see it on the back of the door on my way out.
Boxing Day retail sales set to be busiest day of year after Christmas rush
25 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM
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Fraser Cove centre manager Marie Mischewski. Photo / George Novak
Tauranga malls are bracing for Boxing Day to be the biggest spending day of the year as Christmas shopper numbers exceed last year s figures and expectations. Shopping centre managers say there have been more gift card sales in the lead-up to Christmas and these would likely be spent on Boxing Day.
Meanwhile, a new survey has found four out of five shoppers planned to spend more than usual this year as Paymark s latest figures show a record $67.7 million was spent in the Bay in the first week of December alone.
Christmas Appeal: Tauranga Te Papa Rotary Club helps raise thousands for the foodbank
17 Dec, 2020 08:00 PM
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Tauranga Te Papa Rotary Club members Barry Benton (left) and Neil Percival. Photo / Supplied
One club, 14 volunteers, 32 hours and a generous community has raised $7700 for the Tauranga Community Foodbank.
Tauranga Te Papa Rotary Club volunteers worked over two weekends for their Cash or Cans Appeal; one was at Countdown Bureta, and the other at Countdown Fraser Cove.
Over four days of eight-hour campaigns, volunteers took turns doing two-hour stints.
This healthy injection into the foodbank comes with just two days to go for the Bay of Plenty Times Christmas Appeal, in partnership with Gilmours Wholesale Food and Beverage Tauriko.
The rise, and rise of Lime: Tauranga scooter riders rack up 50,000km tab
10 Dec, 2020 09:00 PM
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Lime scooter user Katie Zeldenrust is keen for the ride service to stay. Photo / George Novak
Lime scooter user Katie Zeldenrust is keen for the ride service to stay. Photo / George Novak
People riding Lime e-scooters in Tauranga collectively travelled the equivalent of New Zealand s entire coastline three times over within its first month. Lime launched in Tauranga on October 29, scattering 400 of the distinctive green and white scooters around the city.
People using the Lime app can pay to ride the scooters where they want for as long, or as short, as they want and leave them when they re done to be picked up by another user.