THE CHRISTMAS PARADE is on Sunday 15th commencing at 5pm. Followed by Carols in the Square.
CONGRATULATIONS to Victoria Jones on winning the South Wairarapa Civic Award for ‘Service to arts and culture’. Vicki was featured in the Oct. issue of the Star.
ALSO to Alistair and Jacqui Sutherland on their well deserved nomination for services to the community.
JACK McLEOD has won a position in the Wairarapa Junior Cricket year eight development team. Likewise, Josh Nelson, Ralph McLeod and Mark Steventon have won places in the year seven squad.
THE FIRST commercial radio station was WEAF New York launched in August 1922.
THIS YEAR’S Rose & Flower Show was one of the best yet? What a shame if you missed it – but don’t worry, there’ll be one to visit in 2014.
EVERY SECOND the earth is struck by around 100 lightening bolts.
CAUCUS, as in politics, came into use in America in the 1600s it was taken from the Algonguian Indian tribe’s language.
IN A TYPICAL galaxy there will be one super nova every 250,000 years.
THE FIRST movie film was developed by W K Dickson in 1894. He thought that it would be a passing fad and so did not take out a patent. A costly mistake.
ACC received an average of 445 fireworks related accident claims a year.
CLOUDS are surprisingly unsubstantial. A typical cumulous cloud holds only enough water to barely fill a small bathtub.
AUSTRALIA has won the Rugby League World Cup every year since its inception in 1968 except 1972 when it was won by Great Britain and 2008 when it was won by New Zealand.
LETTING THE CAT out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.
IN DECEMBER 1987 Ronald Regan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to dismantle 2,611 medium range nuclear missiles based in Europe.
23,000 New Zealand children have a parent in prison.
AFTER ONLY one year on the throne King Edward the 8th abdicated the Crown on December 11th 1936.
THE FIRST proposal for a carbon tax in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions was put together at a meeting of energy and environmental ministers in Brussels held in December 1991. However following opposition from industry leaders it was put on hold. Nothing much has changed.
No Star in January. The deadline for the February issue is 4pm Wednesday January 29th.
