One Mahurangi Business Association last night hosted a thank-you dinner acknowledging the hard work and dedication from our local EMERGENCY services over what was an extremely busy summer period (and in fact the year!).

The thank-you encompassed staff and volunteers from Fire departments in Warkworth, Snell’s beach, Matakana, and Leigh; as well as local Police; St John’s; Coastguard; and Surf Lifesaving.

The evening included food and beverages, 100% provided by our local businesses.

As well as music and entertainment which included Dianne Morgan and the Jade River Ukes, and Lou Lou.

Community volunteers prepared, served, and cleaned up, as a way to say thank you.

The night was a great success; it was well attended; dancing was had, and merriment was achieved! It was a wonderful community event orchestrated by Murray Chapman of One Mahurangi Business Association and it's many sponsors. Local people coming together, chipping in to acknowledge all the hard work our emergency services do! Hopefully it will become an annual event!

Sponsors of the event included:

Carlton Party Hire

Sawmill

Mahurangi River Winery

Bayleys

Composite Joinery

Aldo’s

8 Wired

Barfoot & Thompson

Mahurangi Matters

Warkworth Town Hall

ITM Warkworth

Aqua Works

Heron’s Flight

Dixon Stainless

Gaby’s

Chocolate Brown

Puhoi Valley

Stihl Shop Warkworth

Source Kitchen

Plume Collection

ECM Signs

Countdown Warkworth

New World Warkworth

Brick Bay

Stirling Sports

Summerset

Warehouse Stationary

Viet Q Foods

Lee Fish

RSA Warkworth

Monaghans

Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust

Savan

Insite Security

Golden Boat Fast Foods

Asahi Japanese Cuisine

Pacific Linen

Charlies Gelato

Bam Boo

Bridgehouse Lodge Warkworth

Bam’s Bakery

Salt Water Work Shop

Warkworth Hotel

Café Q

Jade River Oyster Farms

The Photo Store

Fresh Café

One Mahurangi Business Association invited the community to share their messages of gratitude for our emergency services. Here are just a few thank you notes from the community. The rest can be read here https://onemahurangi.co.nz/emergency-services-dinner/

“We have quite a number of current & past employees who are members of the local volunteer Fire Service. As a Company we are very proud of their tireless volunteer work in our community and aware of the sacrifices they make in volunteering their time and energy to help others. We are aware of how much this can impact on their personal and work lives and wish to pass on our gratitude and congratulations for their selfless volunteer work.”

Warwick Rhodes Contractors t/a Rhodes for Roads

“Where would we be without you?”

Rachel & Gareth from The Tahi Bar

“Over the last few years I have been helped by, worked with, made friends with a lot of the wonderful people in our local emergency services. In every interaction they have been, without question, kind, caring, compassionate and above all passionate about what they do. We are very blessed to have them in our community.”

Brent Harbour

“As you can well imagine, a retirement village has more than its fair share of emergency callouts. We have regular visits from St John ambulance, often multiple times a day. The care and empathy shown to our residents by the paramedics is always exceptional. The communication by the call centre staff is amazing and they manage to keep residents (and staff) calm while waiting for the ambulance to turn up to look after them. Just knowing that the emergency services are available and close by is comforting for all our residents so from us all at Summerset Falls – a huge thank you for everything you do for us.”



Summerset Falls Retirement Village