PAMELA AND GEORGE MARSHALL celebrate their 55th Wedding anniversary on Saturday 3rd May
THE YEAR 7/8 SKI TRIP Easter Raffle was won by: Susan Colton, 2nd Prize: Vanessa Tipoki and 3rd Prize: Rebecca Everson. A huge thank–you to the whole community for its support, it is very much appreciated.
THE FINE PEN AND INK drawing in Bev Dobson’s advertisement is of the barn which once stood on the now Mitre 10 site.
THE WORD BLACKMAIL comes from the Scottish Gaelic maol dubh which means ‘excessive English taxes. Likewise avoiding such taxes gave rise to the term ‘getting off Scot free’.
TWO NEW CLASSROOMS have been promised by the Education Department to cope with Martinborough School’s increasing roll.
STONEWALL JACKSON, the brilliant commander of the American Confederate Army was accidentally shot and killed by his own troops on May 10th 1863.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDIES have found that regardless of exercise 20% of people can never get fully fit due to the poor formation of their fibres which take oxygen to their muscles.
A LIBERAL MAN is too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel
THE MOST ABUNDANT MOLECULE on earth is an enzyme ribulos-bisphosphate carboxylas oxgenase which plays a central role in photosynthesis. And I’m sure that you are pleased to know that.
BETWEEN 1922 AND 1932 a consortium of General Motors, oil interests and tyre companies bought up the streetcar (tram) companies which serviced most American cities and replaced them with buses.
ALL THINGS are difficult before they are easy.
THE FIRST GATHERING of people who clamed to have been abducted by aliens was held in Boston on May 7th 1988.
A CRIMINAL IS A PERSON with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to become a corporation.
“I USED TO SAY that politics is the second lowest profession and I have come to know that it bears a great similarity to the first” – President Ronald Regan.
SEA WATER contains seventy times more salt than the human body can metabolise.
ON MAY 14TH 1948 the 400,000 Jewish people living in the former British mandate of Palestine declared the state of Israel throwing open it’s doors to formerly banned Jewish immigrants.
The absolute deadline for the June issue of the Star is 4pm on Wednesday May 29th
