A NEW VERSION of Jazz in Martinborough will be returning this year in the first weekend of September.
Mark your calendar to keep the weekend clear.
OUR CONGRATULATIONS to Ray Lund on his 94 th birthday. Ray has been (and still is) delivering the Martinborough Star to the residents in the Western Strasbourg Street area since the first issue.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS have presented an Italian woman with a birthday cake to make up for one their predecessors stole as it was cooling on a windowsill 77 years ago. The soldiers had arrived in her village of San Pietro to fight against the German soldiers, and one of them helped themselves to the cake. The woman, who recently turned 90, said she was not expecting the cake, but clearly remembered the moment the one baked for her 13th birthday ‘disappeared’. The Guardian
‘IF A PERSON is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it’s an art form or whether it’s just in life, it comes off. You don’t have anything to prove; you can be just who you are’ Clint Eastwood.
WHILE IN NEW ZEALAND Spark is removing the last pay phone boxes England still has 20,000 working phone boxes. Five million calls a year are made from these phones. Frequently these are calls to the Samaraitans or Police, calls which could not be made from home.
BEWARE the politicians who promise to solve crime. When you cover politics, some subjects come around with depressing familiarity, like dishwater circling a drain.” Andria Vance – Stuff
NEW ZEALAND has created more residents in the last six months than any year in the last decade. Until last year the government’s ‘planning range’ for new residents amounted to an annual target of between 33,000 and 40,000.” Almost 200,000 people have applied to become residents under the fast-track visa scheme and one in four have been approved. the number of potential residents is already beyond the government’s estimates by 30,000 people.
CRUISE SHIPS are by far the biggest carbon emitters in the tourist industry. However the NZ Institute of Economic Research reports that cruise visitors provide only 3% of the tourist income.
“FOR YEARS I have disquieted by the tendency we have of giving a few people too much power politically or intellectually. I feel quite passionately that this hero worship is our downfall. We live by soundbites and don’t use our minds” Sophie Freud
The deadline for the August issue is 4 pm Wednesday July 27 th.
